The Swans were made to look slow and disorganised by the red-hot Demons leaving Roos feeling there was little to salvage from the wreckage
“Games like today you tend to forget pretty quickly because there’s not much sense going over them,” he said after Melbourne dominated his team throughout the entire match.
“Individually we’ll probably do that with the players, but collectively you’ve got to move on pretty quickly.
“I spoke to them at quarter time and it didn’t really work that well. I spoke to them at half time and it didn’t work that well. I spoke to them at three-quarter time and it didn’t work out well, so … I don’t know whether I’ll speak to them about the game.”
That’s not to say the coach was unmoved by the poor display, but he realises the size of the task ahead of him as he tries to get his players back up for a looming clash with Geelong.
As bad as his side was, Roos felt the match said a lot more about Melbourne.
“You’ve got to give them a lot of credit - they played very, very well,” he said.
“I think when you strike any team that’s at the absolute top of their game it’s very difficult and it doesn’t matter where they are on the ladder.
“They just played exceptionally well and we played exceptionally bad. The end result is not surprising when that happens.
“If we’re not 100 per cent, we get beaten - it doesn’t matter who we play against.”
Despite the disparity in their ladder positions, and the Swans’ clear favouritism going into the match, Roos said the two sides had a lot more in common than first met the eye.
“In a sense we’re similar to Melbourne [in that] we’re in a rebuilding phase after a successful period,” he said.
“We’re just probably doing it a bit different to how other clubs do it - so [this result] is not altogether surprising.”
The Swans could find themselves in a dogfight for eighth spot if results don’t go their way with Roos rating his side currently worthy of finishing anywhere between “seventh and twelfth”.
