Premiership coach Paul Roos must take responsibility for the performance of his young charges. Photo: Getty Images
Ninety three-point losses are not dissimilar to relationship break-ups in that there is no pleasant way of handling them. They are cruel, dispiriting affairs and moving on from them is no simple task.
And clearly Melbourne’s new coach did not see Sunday’s debacle against West Coast coming. The loss was perhaps predictable but not the tentative performances, the clangers, the failure of some players to even break into a chase.
But surely Paul Roos needed to take more ownership post-game of his struggling team of battlers. The shocked coach said the errors he witnessed were ''an eye-opener for me'' and so bad that he had never seen the likes of it before.
Roos said he would be making statements and changes and foresaw a weekly turnover of personnel, but too often he referred to his players as ''they'' and only occasionally as ''we''.
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