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David King the favoured candidate to step up as Richmond coach
Courtney Walsh | June 02, 2009 | The Australian
RICHMOND will assess the coaching credentials of Terry Wallace's underlings this week in an attempt to extract a positive development from a dreadful season.
Former North Melbourne defender David King, an assistant to Wallace throughout his five-year tenure, is considered to be a leading candidate to become interim coach when Wallace stands down after Friday night's game against the Western Bulldogs.
Others in contention include former Richmond captain Wayne Campbell, current Coburg coach Jade Rawlings and development coach Craig McRae.
While Campbell is a favourite son at Punt Road, The Australian understands that when Wallace's tenure was first discussed at board level six weeks ago, King was the preferred short-term candidate. King, a dual-premiership player with the Kangaroos, where he played 241 games, specialises in mentoring Richmond's defence, an area Wallace described as a positive among the current playing list.
Campbell, a four-time Jack Dyer medallist during a 297-game career with the Tigers, returned to Richmond this year as an assistant after two years working under Rodney Eade at the Bulldogs.
Richmond's football manager Craig Cameron said yesterday the interim coach would not be announced until Saturday.
"With Terry coaching on Friday, we're not going to make announcements on any caretaker coach until Saturday, so we won't talk about that or the process at this stage," Cameron said.
"The process is ongoing, but it (a decision) will be made this week."
Wallace refused to publicly nominate any of his assistants but has told Cameron his preference. "It's certainly not my decision," Wallace said.
"Certainly, with Craig, I've passed on my thoughts as regards to what still needs fixing around the place."
After returning from Perth, where he coached Richmond to a three-point win over the Dockers, Wallace met with Gary March and Cameron at the president's house, where the decision was made to cut ties after Friday's game at Etihad Stadium.
While Wallace was never going to coach at Richmond next season, given the Tigers' opening month, the timing of his exit was a matter of conjecture.
March said repeatedly that Richmond would not make a decision on Wallace until the mid-season break, while the coach said as recently as Saturday night he was prepared to see out the season if it was in the best interests of the club.
But with Wallace, who has media and corporate experience, stressing he would like to be retained by another club next year in a management role, it was decided he should go almost immediately.
"If I was going in a different direction, if I was going into corporate-land, what we had spoken about in terms of lasting out the season was no problem," Wallace said.
"If I am actually going into football and the club is making decisions on recruiting, and I'm involved in those meetings, if the club is making decisions on list management and player trades, and I'm involved in those meetings, and then I step away with that information at some stage to another club, I don't think that's fair on the club, and I don't think that's fair on me either to be involved on those types of conversations.
"To not be involved in those conversations is even more difficult. In the last week, I've found that you're starting at this stage of the year to deal with players' careers, and to be able to sit there and tell a player as a coach that he's not actually going to go on and be there the following year, and telling him that you may be finishing him up or you're not going to give him another opportunity for the season, the player could turn around to you and say, 'You're making decisions on my career, and you're not going to be there'.
"I thought that was going to get difficult for the club and myself to deal with."
Wallace made it clear yesterday he was looking for a new job and Danny Frawley, the head of the AFL Coaches Association and the man Wallace replaced at Richmond, said Wallace would be sought after.
"We hope that Terry, with his experience, is not lost to football, and we believe he would be a great asset to any club looking for genuine football expertise," Frawley said.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25571788-2722,00.html
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Maybe we needed someone who is prepared to win at all costs, go that little bit extra?
http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8959222
AFL commentator and former North Melbourne player David King is under police investigation for bets he allegedly placed on last year's Rising Star award.
Brisbane's Lewis Taylor won the prestigious young player award, but was second favourite behind Marcus Bontempelli of the Western Bulldogs.
Channel Seven reported on Thursday that the Victorian Police sporting integrity unit started investigating late last year whether King had inside knowledge about the award result.
It is understood that King made a series of bets on the Rising Star award.
"Victoria Police is currently investigating a referral from the AFL in regards to an allegation of suspicious betting activity, reported to have occurred last year," the police said in a statement.
"As this investigation is ongoing we are not in a position to provide further comment."
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I bet you he won't be our next coach! ;)
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I'm tipping you might be right.
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Whatever happened to Craig Cameron?
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Whatever happened to Craig Cameron?
I think he got a plum role in horse racing.
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Whatever happened to Craig Cameron?
I think he got a plum role in horse racing.
I think that business went belly up