Swans boss Richard Colless blasts Demons Sydney Swans chairman Richard Colless. OUTGOING Sydney Swans chairman Richard Colless says Melbourne must reveal its survival plan before pocketing an AFL bailout. New Demons chief executive Peter Jackson will today present the league Commission with a case for emergency funding. He will also outline his blueprint for a complete overhaul of the club's football department. Colless, footy's longest-serving club boss, told the Herald Sun it was time for Melbourne to "snap out of denial" and commit to a complete restructure. Money is important. The Swans know that as well as anyone. Without some additional support from the AFL in the 1990s, we just couldn't survive," he said. But just giving clubs money doesn't solve the problem. I don't think that does the club any favours. There has to be a really hard-nosed plan of how the club is going to resurrect itself over a five-year period. You've got to look at the better clubs, snap out of denial ... and almost start again. And the advantage (for Melbourne) is you've got a reasonable supporter base, an amazing history and tradition, and you play at a wonderful ground (MCG) on a regular basis. But just trying to plug a few holes and throw money at it (isn't the answer). I don't think you can keep expecting to get it unless you commit to a major overhaul. Melbourne just can't get any traction. I found Melbourne under (former coach) Neale Daniher to be a very competitive unit. We were roughly at the same standard and they were always very tight games. But they just seem to have lost everything and have had so many top-10 picks. It's just extraordinary the way they have collapsed. It almost beggars belief, to be perfectly honest. Midway through his 20th and final season as Swans chairman, Colless told the Herald Sun he: DOUBTED Paul Roos would coach again in the AFL. HAD met and made up with Pies president Eddie McGuire since the Adam Goodes racism storm. WANTS answers from league bosses on the future of the contentious $900,000 cost-of-living allowance. WILL unveil his successor from within the current Sydney board in the coming weeks; and IS PROUD of the strong Swans culture he will leave behind. Asked about Roos' chances of returning to the coaching caper next year, Colless said: "Well, he says he won't. I'd be surprised. But if he did, I would wish him all the best. This is a man who took us to our first premiership in 72 years and, as far as I'm concerned, everything he does is fine by me. Colless, who briefly served as president of West Coast in 1987, also weighed in on Jeff Kennett's bid for Melbourne's top job. It's none of my business. It's between the Melbourne Football Club and Jeff - but I think it's a bit misleading to compare my position to his," Colless said after Kennett this week pointed to his history with the Eagles and Swans. A start-up club on the run is very different to a club that has been going for 150 years. Colless was the head of a West Australian football committee that helped form the Eagles, serving for a single season in the club's inaugural year before shifting to Sydney. Kennett yesterday said he had signed on as a Demons member several months ago, a constitutional requirement for a president.