COACH Paul Roos says he simply wants Mitch Clark to return to full health – whether football is part of his recovery or not.  

Roos said Clark’s wellbeing was the most important factor in his future.

“Our concern is for him and his health [and we want him] getting better and if that involves fooball – fantastic. If it doesn’t, I’m supportive of that as well,” he said from AAMI Park on Monday.

“My conversation with Mitch has been more along text message and [saying] ‘I hope you’re going OK mate and we’re here to support you’.

“I really haven’t got too involved with all the other side of it. I’m just making sure I’m talking to the doctors every now and then … so in terms of the club, the management and Mitch [having a meeting] – it’ll be sometime this week. But I really haven’t got too involved in that at all.”

Meanwhile, Roos said defender Dean Terlich had been a “really good” contributor this year, despite copping a spray from the coach on the sidelines against GWS.

“He had a bad quarter on the weekend, but certainly I’ve been really pleased – he’s embraced [the new regime], because I think he knew what we expected,” he said.

“When I arrived, he was probably one of the first ones to jump on board and up until the weekend, when he made a couple of blues, he’s been very, very good over the first five or six weeks [of football this year].”

Roos said there were no hard feelings with Terlich – who was under the tutelage of Roos for one season at the Swans in 2008 – from the incident.

“He’s OK. I think he’ll talk to me again,” he said with a smile.

“It’s about their arousal levels and how you get the message across and a lot of the time, you want to stay calm and composed. I had that quiet discussion with him on the bench. And then you’ve got to give them a bit of a reminder in a more ferocious sense.

“Is it right or wrong? We’re learning all the time and we’re trying to work with the players how they best learn. Some guys learn much better when you are quiet and some guys learn much better when you yell and scream.

“Certainly that was an isolated incident with Terls and he probably heard me the second time – and I’m sure he heard me the first time. He probably heard me the second time.”

Roos said former co-captain Jack Trengove, who had 25 touches for Casey against Essendon at Windy Hill on Sunday, relished the opportunity to enjoy his game. 

“We want him to get back and enjoy his footy. It’s been such a burden on Jack for such a long period of time,” he said.

“I caught up with him last week and we had a really good chat – he’s got a really good feel for where he’s at and where his game’s at.

“Part of it was to relax and to just enjoy it. Being at the footy club has been tough and he’s just got to go back and enjoy his footy and he at least did that. He embraced it when I spoke to him and told him. He was quite excited about getting back and running around like he was as a kid.”