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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: one-eyed on May 11, 2009, 04:22:01 AM
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Richmond can't go on like this
Mike Sheahan | May 11, 2009
IT'S decision time at Punt Rd.
Now, not at the June board meeting, as previously promised by the administration. Both Richmond and Terry Wallace need to come to an arrangement that is in the best interests of the club, with due regard for the coach.
Metaphors to describe a coach on the way out can get you into hot water these days. But, in figurative terms, the noose continues to tighten round his neck to an intolerable level.
At 1-6, Richmond's last flicker of hope of playing finals this year has been snuffed out.
So, we have a team with no hope of playing finals, and a coach with no hope of coaching that team next year.
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Surely the logical course is for the parties to agree on a fresh start for the club, with a public pledge to field teams with the long-term future in mind.
It can't be in anyone's best interests to have another 15 rounds of what has gone on for the past seven.
It is a lost cause.
Richmond led the Brisbane Lions by 19 points at quarter-time at the MCG on Saturday before losing by 26.
The Tigers kicked 10 goals from 424 possessions, one goal in a quarter (third) that produced 145 possies.
That's junk. Where's the joy for players, coaches or spectators?
The coach gave the players licence to play their preferred way in the last quarter, and they responded with 2.1.
Richmond has won eight of 28 quarters for the season; the lowest number in the competition.
In simple terms, the Tigers were mortally wounded by the Round 1 humiliation at Carlton's hands.
Wallace seemed flat on radio before Saturday's game and was not seen with coaching colleagues at Saturday night's North Melbourne-Port Adelaide game to study Port, Richmond's opponent next Sunday.
The ongoing pressure - and lack of public support from the administration - must be telling on him.
While he has said he has a commitment and will honour it, that was when there was some hope.
The issue for him now is a gracious exit. He won't want to depart on a sour note for a second time in his long coaching career, having been denied a farewell game at Footscray in 2002 after an ill-considered decision to announce his departure.
Everyone in positions of authority at Richmond in the past five years - the coaching panel, the players, the team leaders, the football department, the recruiting staff - has failed in their jobs.
The Tigers have won 36 of 95 games, with a best finish of ninth. No lasting improvement. No new stars.
They're the facts.
The only course open to Gary March and his board is to make a fresh start. Again.
Get Trent Cotchin into the team as soon as he's ready. Same with Andrew Raines. Bring back Mitch Morton and Will Thursfield, and try Daniel Connors, Cleve Hughes, Adam Thomson and Tyrone Vickery.
What Morton is doing out of this team is yet another mysterious decision this year, while Thursfield can't get a game after playing 18 last year.
Perhaps he got ahead of himself, but he's 23 and can play.
Then there is the dilemma with older brigade. When Richmond's best 22 can't win games, why would you bring back Kane Johnson, Nathan Brown, Jordan McMahon?
The Matthew Richardson situation is more complicated, and sensitive.
Sadly, the Tigers seem to have no alternative to a public declaration that the Wallace era is over. That the rest of 2009 will be spent testing the youth on the list.
As Wallace has been doing with Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls, who is developing ever so slowly.
Despite all the conjecture about Michael Malthouse and the Richmond coaching job next year, the more immediate need is to settle the current dilemma.
If Wallace walks away or is removed, assistants David King and Wayne Campbell both have senior aspirations, and credentials.
Campbell, a Richmond captain, supposedly returned to Punt Rd from Whitten Oval on the indication people in authority saw him as a future coach.
He may not want to step into a caretaker role, but King, a dual North Melbourne premiership player, is rumoured to have no such reservations.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25458081-19742,00.html
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What Morton is doing out of this team is yet another mysterious decision this year.
Graeme Bond said that it wasn't form or injury on radio yesterday.
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What Morton is doing out of this team is yet another mysterious decision this year.
Graeme Bond said that it wasn't form or injury on radio yesterday.
so what is it , did he tell wallace to stuff off or something?
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so what is it , did he tell wallace to eff off or something?
They didn't really go into it, I think they said that his attitude at training hadn't been good.
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What Morton is doing out of this team is yet another mysterious decision this year.
Graeme Bond said that it wasn't form or injury on radio yesterday.
so what is it , did he tell wallace to eff off or something?
Perhaps it has something to do with his insipid effort against the Swans the week before where he played like he didn't give a crap
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What Morton is doing out of this team is yet another mysterious decision this year.
Graeme Bond said that it wasn't form or injury on radio yesterday.
so what is it , did he tell wallace to eff off or something?
Perhaps it has something to do with his insipid effort against the Swans the week before where he played like he didn't give a crap
wayne suggested that they said it was not form or injury bASED, so i guess its attitude , he wasnt our only shocker v the swans so it surely cannot be form, foley and riewoldt also had shockers
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Had a poor attitude at West Coast too apparently. Believed that he was entitled to games when his form clearly didn't warrant them.
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Classic Sheahan: state the bleeding obvious based on Wallace's post-match presser, then claim he affected the outcome when we start playing the kids. ::)
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LMAO@ journos' who look like fully qualified rock spiders.
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Why dont you take it up personally with Sheehan. He spends all morning drinking coffees at his son's cafe in Richmond
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Ask Terry to quit Mike.
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I think the artical was spot on :clapping
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I think the artical was spot on :clapping
That would be the "article" I think.
An artical is someone from the Artic maybe?
:thumbsup
'65 (just to p1ss OX off)
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I think the artical was spot on :clapping
That would be the "article" I think.
An artical is someone from the Artic maybe?
:thumbsup
'65 (just to p1ss OX off)
:thumbsup
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I think the artical was spot on :clapping
That would be the "article" I think.
An artical is someone from the Artic maybe?
:thumbsup
'65 (just to p1ss OX off)
The article was correct.
Whats even more interesting that Mike and Terry were best friends, not any more. ;)
Jackstar is Back. ;)
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Ask Terry to quit Mike.
Or get a junior journo to rock up at Plough's place at 7.30am and ask if he's lost the passion to coach and then have Plough say "that's BS and you know it" before shutting the door :whistle.
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Ask Terry to quit Mike.
Or get a junior journo to rock up at Plough's place at 7.30am and ask if he's lost the passion to coach and then have Plough say "that's BS and you know it" before shutting the door :whistle.
I thought that was Punt Rd after training OE. Well it looked like Punt Rd anyway.
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Ask Terry to quit Mike.
Or get a junior journo to rock up at Plough's place at 7.30am and ask if he's lost the passion to coach and then have Plough say "that's BS and you know it" before shutting the door :whistle.
I thought that was Punt Rd after training OE. Well it looked like Punt Rd anyway.
I only heard it played on 3aw tonight so I was only going by what Healy and Russell were saying.
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Ask Terry to quit Mike.
Or get a junior journo to rock up at Plough's place at 7.30am and ask if he's lost the passion to coach and then have Plough say "that's BS and you know it" before shutting the door :whistle.
I thought that was Punt Rd after training OE. Well it looked like Punt Rd anyway.
I only heard it played on 3aw tonight so I was only going by what Healy and Russell were saying.
I saw it on Channel 9 tonight and to me it looked like that big black door that faces the car park at Punt Rd Oval.
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seen a glimpse while at the gym.
Looked like back door at Terrys ;)
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I'm not sure what is a worse experience, dealing with a parking inspector or a journo....
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seen a glimpse while at the gym.
Looked like back door at Terrys ;)
No worries Jack :thumbsup
Not that it matters lol.
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when will he walk ??????
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The article was correct.
Whats even more interesting that Mike and Terry were best friends, not any more. ;)
Wallet will be lucky to be working in the AFL media at any level next season.
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Here's the vision of Terry at the doorstep on Ch 9 news
http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/video.aspx?videoid=97879fd3-bf33-4997-a1a2-aa9f29f9b69b
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Coaches angry with Channel Nine over Terry Wallace interview
Tony Sheahan | May 13, 2009 01:13pm
THE AFL Coaches' Association has complained to Channel Nine over its treatment of Richmond coach Terry Wallace. Wallace contacted AFCA boss Danny Frawley earlier this week after Nine News journalist Justin Rodski doorstopped the Tigers' coach at Punt Road and questioned his passion to coach.
Frawley rang Nine News' boss of sport Tony Jones to voice his anger at the treatment of Wallace.
"I'm not commenting on the matter," Frawley told SuperFooty today.
Frawley confirmed a conversation had taken place with Jones.
Wallace showed obvious signs of anger towards Rodski, which was aired on Monday night's news, telling the reporter, "That's bulls---."
The interview was criticised by Sunday Herald Sun journalist Craig Hutchison on Channel Nine's Footy Classified on Monday night.
An e-mail is expected to be sent out to all coaches asking for their co-operation with future grievances after this latest matter found its way into the public forum.
Frawley is a former member of Channel 9's The Sunday Footy Show panel.
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl/story/0,26576,25473671-19742,00.html
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Frawley works in the media and can't have it both ways....
Although he did give speeches for Nathan Burke and Stewart Loewe's 300th games, WHILE HE WAS COACH OF RICHMOND, so maybe he does think he can have it both ways.
Or I aren't I allowed to criticise him, just in case his wife can't handle it :wallywink