Melbourne's team for the win over the Tigers included Jack Viney, Colin Garland, Mark Jamar, Chris D

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Famously, while coaching the Sydney Swans, he made just one change after round 19 (Paul Bevan in for Luke Vogels) as the team made its way to the 2005 Grand Final, the settled line-up doing enough to win the club's first premiership for 71 years.
Statistics from Champion Data reveal london budget accommodation Melbourne averaged just 1.63 changes per week during the first eight rounds of 2014, making it the most settled team (alongside Gold Coast and the Sydney Swans) over that period.
Gold Coast's progress can be tracked through the declining number of changes it has made each week since 2011. The Suns have gone from 4.10 (2011), 3.43 (2012), 2.90 (2013) to 1.63 in the first eight rounds this season.
Roos understands some players aren't developed enough to play well every week, but lessons can be learned. He also demands that players be picked only if they display consistent good form at a lower level.
Melbourne's team for the win over the Tigers included Jack Viney, Colin Garland, Mark Jamar, Chris Dawes, Max Gawn, Christian Salem and Aidan Riley for Shannon Byrnes, Jack Fitzpatrick, Alex Georgiou, Viv Michie, Jake Spencer, James Frawley and Jack Trengove.
Of course there is more than one way to skin a cat, as Geelong showed in 2011 when it rested players and tried youngsters to average the second-most changes in the competition (3.67 per week) but still won the flag.
Average changes by club, rounds 1-8, 2014 Melbourne 1.63 Gold Coast 1.63 Sydney Swans 1.63 Port Adelaide 1.75 Geelong 1.88 Collingwood 2.00 North Melbourne 2.00 Adelaide 2.13 Fremantle 2.38 Essendon 2.50 Richmond 2.50 Hawthorn 2.63 St Kilda 2.63 WCE 3.00 Western Bulldogs 3.13 Brisbane Lions 3.25 Carlton 3.38 GWS 3.50