Paul Roos has passed on Brisbane. Source: Michael Klein / News Limited
PAUL Roos' chances of coaching grow slimmer by the day with the former Sydney premiership coach ruling himself out of the running for Brisbane's top job.
Lions chairman Angus Johnson revealed the 2005 Sydney Swans premiership coach ruled himself out of a move to Queensland last week.
"He contacted me midway through last week and informed me that, due to family reasons, he would be unable to relocate to Brisbane and was therefore ruled out as a candidate," Johnson said. "I have a good relationship with Paul and our discussions were always honest and open."
Melbourne's five-man coaching selection panel - David Parkin, Peter Jackson, Josh Mahoney, Todd Viney and Greg Healy - is closing in on making a recommendation to the board.
Other candidates include Rodney Eade, Mark Williams, interim coach Neil Craig and Dean Laidley.
Eade, Collingwood's football and coaching strategist, is seen to have performed impressively during his first formal interview.
Demons directors, including new president Glen Bartlett, were updated on the panel's progress at a board meeting on Monday.
The club is determined to make a call on the senior coach in the coming weeks.
Melbourne is also chasing a new football operations boss, a role filled by Mahoney since Jackson embarked on a rebuild of the club's football department in May.
Mahoney is in the mix to take the job permanently ahead of a field of outside applicants.
Sydney-based Roos said this month a return to coaching "would require a major change in mindset".
"Clearly through the process, you start thinking about coaching again, but if the question is put to me, 'will you coach Melbourne?' or 'will you coach Brisbane?', the answer is no at this particular time," Roos said.
"You wonder about things like, 'what would it look like? Would you move interstate?', those sorts of things.
"But I'm nowhere near 100 per cent certain I want to coach again, and I think you absolutely have to be 100 per cent to do it."
Highly regarded football administrator Geoff Walsh has spoken to the Demons about the football operations position, chatting with Jackson recently.
Walsh, who left Collingwood late last month, has also been contacted by Essendon and North Melbourne.
It is understood Walsh is unlikely to make a decision on whether he will step back into the AFL until he returns from a visit to the US where his son, Jake, is embarking on a college punting career.
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