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11th September 2003, 06:18 PM
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Roos fails fitness test
September 11, 2003
SYDNEY coach Paul Roos has failed a fitness test and will not line up with the Swans' brains trust at interstate AFL semi-finals this weekend.
Roos ruptured an Achilles tendon 11 days ago playing basketball and after surgery the same day was named on the Swans' injury list as being out for the season.
On doctors orders, Roos has been grounded in Sydney for fear of developing a blood clot, Deep Vein Thrombosis-style, if he flies to Brisbane or Adelaide.
While he risked a clot with a trip to Adelaide when the team played last Sunday, Roos will watch the semis live with his players at Channel Ten's Sydney studios.
Assistants Steve Malaxos, John Longmire and Craig Holden will be equipped with mobile phones and Roos intends conferencing with them during Friday's Brisbane-Adelaide game at the Gabba, and the Port Adelaide-Essendon clash at AAMI Stadium.
?There's a little bit of bruising ... but given it's not 100 per cent that I have to go (to the games), the doctor was leaning towards it being a good opportunity to rest,? Roos said today.
?Especially given that last week was a bit more active than perhaps it should have been.?
The man nominated this week by AFL great Kevin Sheedy as coach of the year said DVT was a concern.
?I think that's a part of it certainly and also the normal rehab is not running up and down stairs and coaching an AFL team,? Roos said.
?The first seven days you are supposed to be sitting with your foot up.?
Roos will be taking his injury one game at a time, but he may have to consider donning some anti-DVT hosiery for a plane ride to Melbourne for a grand final.
Sydney must beat the winner of the Brisbane-Adelaide semi at Telstra Stadium on Saturday week before Roos has to consider lingerie shopping, or a long drive.
But before then Roos and Co may care to spare a thought for fans in Sydney when they nestle into Ten's theatrette to watch live broadcasts of the semis.
Free to air viewers in the harbour city, which attracted the largest crowd to an AFL game this year, must wait until 10.40pm for a delayed telecast of Friday's game, and until 10pm for the network's first showing of Saturday's game.
?It's great the players can go and watch the game live, which is 7.30,? a grateful Roos said.
?It means they are home by 10, and normally you'd watch it at 9.30, and if you watch the whole game a midnight finish is not the ideal preparation.?
Many bleary-eyed Sydneysiders would share Roos' assessment of how a late night waiting for the AFL effects performance the next day.
A record 72,393 spectators gathered at Telstra Stadium for the Sydney-Collingwood game in round 21, breaking the the record of attendance for a game outside of Victoria, and for a game this season.
By the close of business today, more than half of 80,500 seats available for the preliminary had been sold, with nine days to go.
Roos fails fitness test
September 11, 2003
SYDNEY coach Paul Roos has failed a fitness test and will not line up with the Swans' brains trust at interstate AFL semi-finals this weekend.
Roos ruptured an Achilles tendon 11 days ago playing basketball and after surgery the same day was named on the Swans' injury list as being out for the season.
On doctors orders, Roos has been grounded in Sydney for fear of developing a blood clot, Deep Vein Thrombosis-style, if he flies to Brisbane or Adelaide.
While he risked a clot with a trip to Adelaide when the team played last Sunday, Roos will watch the semis live with his players at Channel Ten's Sydney studios.
Assistants Steve Malaxos, John Longmire and Craig Holden will be equipped with mobile phones and Roos intends conferencing with them during Friday's Brisbane-Adelaide game at the Gabba, and the Port Adelaide-Essendon clash at AAMI Stadium.
?There's a little bit of bruising ... but given it's not 100 per cent that I have to go (to the games), the doctor was leaning towards it being a good opportunity to rest,? Roos said today.
?Especially given that last week was a bit more active than perhaps it should have been.?
The man nominated this week by AFL great Kevin Sheedy as coach of the year said DVT was a concern.
?I think that's a part of it certainly and also the normal rehab is not running up and down stairs and coaching an AFL team,? Roos said.
?The first seven days you are supposed to be sitting with your foot up.?
Roos will be taking his injury one game at a time, but he may have to consider donning some anti-DVT hosiery for a plane ride to Melbourne for a grand final.
Sydney must beat the winner of the Brisbane-Adelaide semi at Telstra Stadium on Saturday week before Roos has to consider lingerie shopping, or a long drive.
But before then Roos and Co may care to spare a thought for fans in Sydney when they nestle into Ten's theatrette to watch live broadcasts of the semis.
Free to air viewers in the harbour city, which attracted the largest crowd to an AFL game this year, must wait until 10.40pm for a delayed telecast of Friday's game, and until 10pm for the network's first showing of Saturday's game.
?It's great the players can go and watch the game live, which is 7.30,? a grateful Roos said.
?It means they are home by 10, and normally you'd watch it at 9.30, and if you watch the whole game a midnight finish is not the ideal preparation.?
Many bleary-eyed Sydneysiders would share Roos' assessment of how a late night waiting for the AFL effects performance the next day.
A record 72,393 spectators gathered at Telstra Stadium for the Sydney-Collingwood game in round 21, breaking the the record of attendance for a game outside of Victoria, and for a game this season.
By the close of business today, more than half of 80,500 seats available for the preliminary had been sold, with nine days to go.