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Axe to fall this week at Tigerland
5:54 PM Sun 15 July, 2007
By Jennifer Witham
for richmondfc.com.au
RICHMOND coach Terry Wallace lamented his side's persistent skill errors in the Tigers' 53-point loss to the Hawks on Sunday, and has consequently forecast selection changes for the club's next assignment against Port Adelaide.
Wallace said it was a ‘free-flowing game’ up until half time, before the match disintegrated into a decidedly one-sided affair where the Hawks kicked 10 goals to three.
He also said he was frustrated by the number of costly mistakes his players made throughout that two-quarter period.
"Every time we turned it over, they hurt us when it goes back the other way, and that was disappointing," he said after the loss.
"Even with as bad as it was getting towards the end, I think twice we had senior players who missed goal opportunities up one end, only to watch the ball go directly down to the other end and go sailing through the goals.
"Two-goal turnarounds … they hurt you in football. Probably the turnover rate was the most frustrating aspect."
Wallace said supporters can expect the coaching staff to wield the axe ahead of next week's game, owing to a strong showing by the club's VFL affiliate side, Coburg, on the weekend.
"We'll make changes. Our VFL side has won well today, so there are guys that will have to step out of the side and give others an opportunity," he said.
Wallace emphasised the importance of his side having a ‘vibrant finish to the season’, despite the difficult fixtures the club face, including two trips interstate and one to Geelong.
"The one thing I said to the blokes at the end is, there's still a long way to go in the season," he said.
"We want to be known as competitive, every time you go out there, and the hard work levels … and as I said, for an hour, I wouldn't question that for the first hour of the game … I wouldn't question it at all.
"Certainly in the second half of the game, it wasn't where we want to be."
After conceding the Hawks outran his players on Sunday, Wallace applauded the ability of the opposition and claimed Hawthorn does have the capacity to make a stand in September.
"Whether you talk premiership? Certainly they are as good a running side… and I think they are the most skilful foot-skills side in the competition going around at the moment, especially from the back end," he said.
"Their use of the ball is outstanding, and they hurt us all day from that area of the ground.
"Certainly skill-wise, I think they're up with any side in the competition, and where it goes from there, who knows?
“There's a long way to go still, isn't there?"
http://www.richmondfc.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=6301&newsId=47320
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I know where the axe should fall
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I know where the axe should fall
It probably wouldn't cut through his leathery neck
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Or his tailored made shirt ::)
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I know where the axe should fall
On cue Jack ;D ;) :-\
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Judging on his performance today Tambling will be at Coburg next week and if a few years time will be in the Tiwi Islands or Mellville Islands.
Looking at the way Roughhead and Franlklin kicked 9 goals between them I have not seen or heard Terry talking up our chances in terms of the quality of our recruits. I guess he was at the dinner table with Greg Miller tucking into a huge huge huge slice of humble pie and waiting for seconds of course.
Perhaps the axe should be falling elsewhere also. >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
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I know where the axe should fall
On cue Jack ;D ;) :-\
at least the burgers won! They have a good coach down there who can teach players.
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Judging on his performance today Tambling will be at Coburg next week and if a few years time will be in the Tiwi Islands or Mellville Islands.
Looking at the way Roughhead and Franlklin kicked 9 goals between them I have not seen or heard Terry talking up our chances in terms of the quality of our recruits. I guess he was at the dinner table with Greg Miller tucking into a huge huge huge slice of humble pie and waiting for seconds of course.
Perhaps the axe should be falling elsewhere also. >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
As for Tambling , a bit like Marty McGrath i reckon, is going to tease you and then not perform. Richard plays like he is scared
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I think the axe will get a fair work out this week.
What are the chances of some more chicken manure being dropped off this week?
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I think we are passed that in terms of a manure dump.
We need Father Dimi from The Exorcist to get rid of the malevolence that has blackened the sky over Punt Rd for 25 years. Once the exorcism takes place we will know that a total clean out of our list needs to take place before we should even start to think that we are moving forward. Very very very very bleak.
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I think we are passed that in terms of a manure dump.
We need Father Dimi from The Exorcist to get rid of the malevolence that has blackened the sky over Punt Rd for 25 years. Once the exorcism takes place we will know that a total clean out of our list needs to take place before we should even start to think that we are moving forward. Very very very very bleak.
Sad but true
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at least the burgers won! They have a good coach down there who can teach players.
They did indeed - great day it was.
And yes Andrew Collins is a very good coach - hands off Jack ;D :thumbsup
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big difference between him and plough, collins can teach
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I think we are passed that in terms of a manure dump.
We need Father Dimi from The Exorcist to get rid of the malevolence that has blackened the sky over Punt Rd for 25 years. Once the exorcism takes place we will know that a total clean out of our list needs to take place before we should even start to think that we are moving forward. Very very very very bleak.
Sad but true
I was going to post about curses before I read the above - scary.
Normaly I'm not superstitious - I think it brings bad luck - but I think we've been cursed by what we did to KB. It won't be taken away until he fully embraces the club again.
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KB sacked in 1991.
Skies blackened over Punt Rd at half time on Grand Final Day 1982. Saturday September 25 1982. Has nothing to do with KB.
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big difference between him and plough, collins can teach
Did plough give you the sack?
That would explain a lot, poor poor jackoff.
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the sky darkened when Helen Demarco come out starkers with her scarf waving them big t@s around the club has never been the same please comeback Helen & remove the curse ;D
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Wallace admits Tigers are in tatters
16 July 2007 Herald Sun
Mark Stevens
RICHMOND coach Terry Wallace last night promised more changes, conceding his team was again shown up for its lack of skill and hard-running ability.
The Tigers were handed a lesson in precise ball movement by Hawthorn in a 53-point loss at the MCG.
"Clearly, we need to get more skill into our team," Wallace said.
"I don't think anyone that was here today, or anyone who watched us last week turn the ball over would deny that.
"The turnover rate was probably the most disappointing aspect.
"Again, our VFL side has won well today. Guys will have to step out of the side to give others the opportunity."
The Tigers, with just one win and a draw from 15 matches, were outscored 10 goals to three in a bitterly disappointing second half.
Still six points behind Melbourne with a tough run home to come, Richmond is now a raging favourite to win the wooden spoon.
Wallace, midway through a five-year deal at Punt Rd, was asked if he expected heat from the club if it fell away in the final seven rounds.
"I get difficult questions at the half-year mark from the board," he said. That's the nature of the game you're in."
Asked if the second-half display was a sign the bottom had fallen out of his team, Wallace said: "You hope not. Absolutely, you hope not".
Wallace addressed his players immediately after the game to stress there would be no excuses for a drop in intensity in the closing weeks.
"To have at least a vibrant finish to the season is very, very important," Wallace said.
"We'll put out the best sides we possibly can in each and every game.
"There's still a long way to go in the season and you want to be known as competitive every time you go out there."
Wallace also made a point of saying it was better to be beaten with youth than the ageing players who had pushed the Tigers to the brink of finals in the past.
"We're not where we want to be," he said.
"Clearly, we're in a situation where we won games over the last few years with guys . . . Richmond supporters sort of sat there and said they were sick of finishing ninth.
"We're getting beaten at the moment. We don't accept the way we were beaten today . . . but we're getting beaten today with young boys.
"Those guys will get better, but they're not there at the minute.
"We're not getting beaten with the same blokes that the club was getting beaten with for six, seven, eight, nine years."
Defenders Andrew Kellaway and Darren Gaspar have already been victims of Richmond's push to re-cast its list.
Wallace bemoaned a lack of daring run from defence, praising the Hawks for setting new standards.
"The pleasing thing is the game is getting back to hard, gut-busting running rather than tempo style of play," Wallace said.
"We're clearly not adapting to it as well as some of the other sides."
Wallace was frustrated by his team's failure to "pull the trigger" and mount attacks from defence.
"Our inability to have enough real run and charge out of the back end caused us more problems than not," Wallace said.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,22079379%255E20322,00.html
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Wallace hoping there's a twist in the tail
Stephen Rielly | July 16, 2007
DESPITE a loss to Hawthorn at the MCG yesterday, which suggested that even the spirit to compete has been lost to Richmond, Tiger coach Terry Wallace said a "vibrant" finish to the season remained essential and that the club's annus horribilis was still better than a mid-table finish with a group capable of no more than mediocrity.
Wallace watched a nine-point half-time deficit turn into a dispiriting 53-point loss, a 13th defeat for the Tigers in 15 rounds, and conceded that the rout was not an acceptable way to lose, even by Richmond's standards in 2007.
"We were beaten badly in the second half. They just outran us. I thought their work levels, particularly from the back end, and their skill level was far superior and once they started getting that overlap footy (going), we had no answers," said Wallace, who revealed that he spoke with his players after the match about the respect that will be lost if the last seven rounds of the season are meekly surrendered.
"There is still a long way to go in the season and you want to be known as competitive every time you go out there … I wouldn't question the first hour of the game, I wouldn't question it at all. Certainly in the second half, it wasn't where we want to be."
The defeat was the Tigers' heaviest since round six, when Geelong mauled them by 157 points, and the team's second-worst loss of the season.
Equally, Richmond managed to create more possessions than Hawthorn for a return of 21 fewer entries inside its 50-metre arc, a reflection of an inability to kick well enough and a game of inefficient handball and survival, which that weakness often inspires.
Wallace-coached Western Bulldogs teams of the past were highly polished, quick and skilful, but to date, after almost three seasons, the Richmond coach hasn't been able to reshape the Tigers in the same way. Meanwhile, he has watched Hawthorn make that transformation.
"They were terrific. They've come a heck of a long way in a short period of time," he said of the Hawks, who seem to be justifying the most extreme draft-led makeover in the game's history.
"Whether you talk premierships … certainly, they're as good a running side, I think they are the most skilful foot-skills side going around in the competition at the moment, especially from the back end. Their use of the ball is outstanding and they hurt us all day from that area of the ground. Certainly, skill-wise, I think they're up with any side in the competition. Where it goes from there, who knows, I mean there is a long way to go still, isn't there?"
Too long, perhaps, for a Richmond team that included 11 players with fewer than 50 games' experience. One of them, Richard Tambling, sat out much of the last term in a clearly disgruntled state of mind and, according to Wallace, will be spoken with during the week. His immediate future is in question.
"We've said that from day one, that at least a vibrant finish is very, very important. We've still got to go over to Perth and play there, we've got to play Sydney in Sydney and we've still got to go to Geelong, so it's pretty tough on the way home, but it's very important how you finish that off and making sure you're keeping vibrant in the way you are as a group," said Wallace, who argued that Richmond was a better club today than it was when he took command at the end of 2004.
"We're not where we want to be. Clearly, we're in a situation where we won games over the last two years with guys … Richmond supporters sat there saying they were sick of finishing ninth.
"Well, we're getting beaten at the moment — and we don't accept the way we were beaten today — but we're getting beaten today with young boys, a dozen or so with less than 50 games. We're not getting beaten with the same blokes that this club was getting beaten with for six, seven, eight or nine years. So we see it from that point of view that those guys will get better."
http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/wallace-hoping-theres-a-twist-in-the-tail/2007/07/15/1184438150897.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
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big difference between him and plough, collins can teach
Did plough give you the sack?
That would explain a lot, poor poor jackoff.
I actually had alot to do with him and I dont beleive he is heading in the right direction. leave it at
that.
Have met Andy Collins and he is a great thinker of the modern game.
I liken Andy Collins like Mark Williams at Port. I reckon Mark Williams is a great coach.
Had enough balls to stick it up everyone when he won the flag,
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big difference between him and plough, collins can teach
Did plough give you the sack?
That would explain a lot, poor poor jackoff.
I actually had alot to do with him and I dont beleive he is heading in the right direction. leave it at
that.
Have met Andy Collins and he is a great thinker of the modern game.
I liken Andy Collins like Mark Williams at Port. I reckon Mark Williams is a great coach.
Had enough balls to stick it up everyone when he won the flag,
gees jack u r such a tool.
i tell u what how about you just go to richmond, get the club to payout wallace, and you coach the club for the next 2 yrs for nothing!!! lets see what u r made of! u great thinker of the modern game!!!