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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: Tiger Spirit on August 10, 2004, 04:19:34 PM
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It's finally official. :thumbsup
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Hasn’t made decisions on Assistant coaches yet. Will wait and see what is working at the moment and go from there.
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Will take over from 1 October.
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Already saying "we" - only caught bits of the conference (I had to come back upstairs) but he did say that he would not be making any predictions on where we finish in 2005 until he sees what sort of list we have
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I AM ABSOLUTELY FARKEN RAPT!!!! After getting a lot of buffering on the net, I went to the car with a Hawks supporter for a smoke, coffee and a listen.....
This is brilliant.....The tenure doesnt worry as such...but there is going to be an air of excitement about our club for the first time in a long time.
Bring on the AGM speech for 05!
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And there is more good news to come ! ;)
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And there is more good news to come ! ;)
Spill the beans......
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And there is more good news to come ! ;)
LMAOO@Jackstars inside scoops.LMAOOOOO
Are we getting Carey as an assistant ???????
That would be ab unbeatable combo !
We'd be the tuffest ,dirtiest priks in the comp.
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It feels like the big black clouds have suddenly lifted from Punt Road.
Can't wait for more good news Jackstar. If you can't tell us what the good news is, what about when we can expect to hear more good news? :thumbsup
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Wallace joins Tigers
10 August, 2004
Ashley Browne
Sportal
Terry Wallace has signed a five-year deal to coach Richmond, saying the pathway to success was clearer at Punt Road than it might have been at the other club to have chased his services, Hawthorn.
Wallace was introduced as coach on Tuesday afternoon at Punt Road and spoke of having some unfinished business at the club following an unsuccessful 11-game stint as a player there in 1987.
"There is a huge capacity here to be a strength in the competition," Wallace said of the potential to again attract crowds of more than 50,000 back to Richmond home games at the MCG.
"I'm honoured that the Richmond Football Club has given me the opportunity to take it forward and into a new era."
He also promised to bring a "winning culture" back to the club, saying that from afar as an opposition coach and as a commentator that there had been an air of instability hovering over the club.
But he was impressed with the approaches from and dealings with president Clinton Casey and football director Greg Miller, saying they had been "totally professional" from the start.
"The most important thing was that we got the best person available. We're just delighted with today's outcome," Casey said.
The deal was finalised with a half-hour meeting between Wallace and Miller on Tuesday morning, where both parties agreed to terms.
And while fulsome in his praise for Hawthorn, where he played 174 games between 1978 and 1986, he said the prospect of an extraordinary general meeting to resolve the political situation did not sit well as he set about resuming his coaching career.
"I'm hoping for stability with this footy club. That's what all Richmond supporters are hoping for."
Wallace denied suggestions that several of his former assistants from the Western Bulldogs would be joining him at Richmond and said outgoing coach Danny Frawley would be left to go about the remaining three games of the 2004 season.
http://richmondfc.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=165135
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And there is more good news to come ! ;)
I think a PM is in order from the prophetic one :bow ;D
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Somebody might be returning that will make you all happy !
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Leon Cameron
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I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ITS KNIGHTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I called a Knighter-Wallace combination ages ago!!!!!!!!!!
AM I close or just jumping the gun?
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And there is more good news to come ! ;)
I think a PM is in order from the prophetic one :bow ;D
DITTO :shh
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Balmey???
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Chris Bond?
LMAO
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Rhett Bartlett?
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Jack Dyer.
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LMAOOOO@ Our new coach already having the nicknames of
Plough and Shaft.
LMAIOOOIOoOooOoOoOoOoOo :birthday :santaoOoOoOoOoOoOoo
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And there is more good news to come ! ;)
I think a PM is in order from the prophetic one :bow ;D
DOUBLE DITTO :shh
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Balme to replace Hutchison
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I hope it's either Knighta or Bondy - or both. Two of my favourite ppl and both done good apprenticeships.
You'd never be wondering where their loyalties lie.
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Talking to some folk in the know on the weekend.
(Carlton)
Interesting to note that they were of the opinion Knights was a idiot of a coach,
They'd apparently gotten the whisper from their folk in Adelaide.
Knights as an assistant - No thanks.
Forget these 90s guys.
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What's his coaching record Ox - i wouldn't have a clue.
Just like him.
Surely liking a player qualifies as assistant coach lol
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Question for Ox, speaking to Carlton folk were we ? You werent at Fevolas engagement by any chance ???
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What's his coaching record
Port Adeladie Magpies
2003 11 wins 9 losses - 5th (out of 9 teams)
2004 6 wins 10 losses - currently 6th with 4 rounds to go.
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Five-year deal brings Wallace to Tigers
By Martin Blake
realfooty.theage.com.au
August 11, 2004
(http://realfooty.theage.com.au/ffximage/2004/08/10/terry_wallace_front_narrowweb__200x307.jpg)
Picture: Wayne Taylor
Richmond Football Club has punted on the renowned healing powers of Terry Wallace, hiring the former Western Bulldogs coach to lead the club for five years from 2005 on a deal worth about $2.5 million and garnished with incentives for a premiership.
In a remarkable show of faith given an environment in which four AFL coaches in seven weeks have been told they are surplus to requirements, Wallace, 45, signed his new contract at Punt Road Oval yesterday morning. Wallace, who took the Bulldogs into four finals series in six years before departing in late 2002, will replace Danny Frawley on October 1.
Not since Ron Barassi's ultimately calamitous five-year plan was put in place at Melbourne in the 1980s has a club committed to a coach for so long. Even Kevin Sheedy, a four-time premiership coach, was thought to have extracted some largesse from Essendon when he signed for three more years earlier this season.
But Richmond and Wallace, who first met nearly a month ago, quickly agreed that five was the right number for the purposes of stability and correct the club's slide. "This is the time we believe it will take to get the job done," said Greg Miller, Richmond's football director.
Wallace, who played briefly at Richmond after winning three premierships with Hawthorn, rejected overtures from the Hawks, saying there were too many "roadblocks" at Hawthorn, an oblique reference to the threat of a board challenge.
Thus another piece of the complicated coaching puzzle fell into place yesterday, with Hawthorn seen as the jilted suitor, paying the price for its instability. But Hawthorn football director Dermott Brereton quickly said that Wallace had not been the club's first choice.
Rodney Eade and Gary Ayres, both multiple Hawthorn premiership players, are left to fight out that position unless the Hawks make a left-field choice. In any event Eade is still thought to be in the running for the Adelaide job vacated by Ayres.
Wallace said he wanted to take the under-achieving Richmond back to the promised land.
"Obviously we're all dreamers to a point of view," he said. "I've wanted to make it work for the right reasons and make the decision for all the right reasons, using your head, not your heart. But we're all dreamers. I just thought this football club was a club that had such a huge capacity to be one of the real strengths of the competition.
"We've all gone along to games when they have been 'up' and see how they can draw a regular 50,000-plus crowd to the MCG. I just thought it was time for that to come back again. I suppose I'm dreaming that I can do that. I believe that I can change the culture and the way the Richmond people are thinking about this footy club and that was probably one of the major reasons."
http://realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2004/08/10/1092102450002.html
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A coach-in-waiting returns
By Martin Blake
realfooty.theage.com.au
August 11, 2004
Terry Wallace was back on the other side of the cameras this time, but that's not to say he's any less comfortable there.
On the contrary, a half-grin came to him, and a wink for one or two friends among the throng, as Richmond's president Clinton Casey announced at Punt Road yesterday that Wallace would coach the club for five years from 2005.
The lines have become terribly blurred and everyone in this incestuous business knows it. Wallace said that on Monday night he had made sure that he didn't call Jason Dunstall or Greg Miller to tell them of his decision until later in the evening, lest he have to tell lies on his regular spot on 3AW earlier in the night.
Wallace has played it beautifully. As a professional with two potential employers, he was not about to allow any early statements about his future.
Richmond felt that it had a commitment from him weeks ago, but Wallace made sure he went and talked to Hawthorn as well, for four hours, no less, and there was the not unsubstantial matter of a signature.
Miller said the four-hour meeting at Glenferrie Oval had worried him so much that he fired off an email to Wallace last Thursday night. "I thought an hour or two (with Hawthorn) might have been enough," said Miller, who was seen to punch the air when the signature went on paper yesterday morning.
Wallace said he was annoyed that people had suggested he had gone through a charade with the Hawks. But he conceded that the phone call to Dunstall, an old friend, was difficult. "I've got to say that the 24 hours wasn't easy at all, and it was made particularly difficult by the fact it was someone I was close to."
He claimed that there were "roadblocks" at Hawthorn, referring to the agitation caused by Don Scott. But Richmond, the club he has chosen, is facing a more credible challenge to the board than the Hawks.
Responding to this, Wallace said the difference was that at Richmond, the forces headed by Brendan Schwab mounting a challenge had agreed on the selection process for a coach. Translated, he is saying that he felt safer taking the job at Punt Road. But the strong suspicion remains that he was heading to Richmond all along.
"It just became a situation where I would have only been going for my heart, and I didn't think for the right reasons," he said of Hawthorn's pitch. "It just became a little bit cloudy."
It is "unfinished business" that has drawn Wallace back to the coaching ranks, as though anyone seriously doubted that he would be back, notwithstanding the angst surrounding his departure from the Western Bulldogs at the end of 2002.
Wallace took the Dogs to two preliminary finals and might well have had a premiership side in 1997 only to fall short. It still rankles him, and coaching is in his blood.
His call to arms to the massive supporter base of Richmond was powerfully delivered. Like many observers, he regards the Tigers as an untapped monolith of football.
"Obviously we're all dreamers to a point of view," he said. "I've wanted to make it work for the right reasons and make the decision for all the right reasons, using your head, not your heart. But we're all dreamers. I just thought this football club was a club that had such a huge capacity to be one of the real strengths of the competition."
Wallace's appointment is out of the ordinary in several contexts, one of which is that Danny Frawley is to coach out the remaining three games.
The Richmond players ought to feel edgy. Their new coach said it stood to reason that a club in the bottom two would suffer significant pruning.
But most unusual in all this is the five-year term, a remarkable show of faith. Wallace, remember, is not a premiership coach.
But Miller said Richmond needed stability and what the five-year contract virtually guarantees is that so long as some progress is shown, the speculation that dogged Frawley won't be around in the first couple of years at least.
For his part, Wallace wanted it known that he was not asking for five years worth of patience. "I believe in a winning culture . . . I've had 11 years coaching and nine of them have been finals. I expect and demand of the people involved in the footy club that we've got to get it right as quickly as we possibly can."
http://realfooty.theage.com.au/realfooty/articles/2004/08/10/1092102450016.html
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Tiger future in Wallace's hands
11 August 2004
Herald Sun
DANIEL Jackson is a Year 12 student starting out at Richmond. He will be 23 and a 100-game player when Terry Wallace completes his contract.
The Tigers have invested their future in Wallace. Unconditionally.
They have given him a five-year contract and carte blanche to revive an ailing football club.
He will decide his principal assistants, who stays and who goes from the player list, and how the club plays its powerful hand in the draft.
It is a massive show of faith in one man. A massive commitment, philosophically and financially. Wallace has a solid reputation, but he hasn't coached in a Grand Final yet.
He will get an estimated $3 million over the term of the agreement, although there are those in the industry convinced the club and its benefactors will pay a total of significantly more.
Surely not, yet Clinton Casey, the president, is a man of means and needs.
The Wallace appointment is the ace of spades in Casey's poker game with Brendan Schwab and his cohorts.
Apart from the political points for Casey, director of football Greg Miller never has been accused of being frugal in negotiations with coaches and players.
On the credit side, given Wallace's marketing bent, he will earn his keep. He will "sell" the club in a way that will have Eddie McGuire nodding approvingly.
Yesterday, he appeared at the media conference at Punt Road resplendent in a dark suit, crisp white shirt and the numbered Richmond tie he earned from his (brief) time as a player. Nice touch.
Starting from the modest base of 11 games in 1987, he plans to become a life member at Richmond, as he is at Hawthorn and the Western Bulldogs.
Five years is an extraordinary term. Yet, Richmond is an extraordinary challenge, and clubs were queuing up for Wallace.
Like those before him, he sees Richmond as a sleeping giant; unlike his predecessors, he seems equipped to jolt the giant into action.
First up, Richmond will set membership records before Christmas.
If you're not a Hawthorn board member or supporter, it is an exciting appointment.
Wallace knows his stuff, he will be embraced by the Richmond faithful, given their wretched history in the past 20 years, and he made the right noises yesterday.
The most significant of his observations was: "Supporters want to see their own players developed."
Based on that, the early draft choices this year will be invested in youth not expediency.
No more Fletchers, Marshes, Morrisons and Wellers from other clubs to fill holes.
Wallace said supporters wanted to see players start and finish at a club: first games and 250th games, like Glenn Archer has done with the Kangaroos.
"We know there's no short-term fix in football," he said.
It is a lesson Richmond supporters have learned the hard way. Now they know what lays ahead. Strangely enough, the majority will accept it this time.
Wallace wants stability, development and steady progress.
He is a strong performer in the media, and lived up to his reputation yesterday.
It was probably a piece of pie, really, given he had to call Jason Dunstall on Monday night to tell him he wouldn't be going home to Glenferrie Oval.
He described the call to his mate and Hawthorn's acting chief executive as "really, really difficult".
He said the spectre of Don Scott and political instability at Hawthorn had worried him, later adding: "The fit wasn't right."
Yet, Richmond was so confident of landing him, a highly-placed official declared it a done deal 10 days ago.
Wallace made it official when he called Miller at 9pm Monday. He bristled at suggestions he put Hawthorn through a charade.
Adelaide, Hawthorn and the Western Bulldogs now jostle for front position in the hunt for a coach, with Rodney Eade and Gary Ayres and a bunch of assistants all waiting in hope.
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,10407565%255E20322,00.html
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from article: Turmoil proves costly for Hawks
11 August 2004
Herald Sun
Mark Robinson
Wallace ended months of speculation when he opted for the Tigers over the Hawks in a deal estimated to earn him $2.5 million to $3 million.
He indicated the excitement factor that is Richmond, the young developing players and the current stability off the field, played a role.
"We're all dreamers and I thought this football club is a club that has a huge capacity to be one of the real strengths of the competition," he said.
Flanked by president Clinton Casey and Miller, Wallace warned the playing list would be severely scrutinised.
"You would be kidding yourself at any side that's finished down in the bottom four on the ladder if you didn't think that was going to occur," Wallace said.
"I can't make any promises to the players on the list, all I can do is make promises to players who remain that we'll have a better list going forward."
The five-year deal was offered to Wallace three weeks ago by Miller, and reaffirmed and more in a passionate e-mail from Miller after Wallace met Hawthorn for four hours last Thursday.
Miller said it would take five years to develop the list to "where it should be".
"It's the time we believe it will take to get the job done," Miller said. "I don't look at it as a five-year plan, it's a five-year appointment and that sort of stability is paramount at football clubs."
Casey avoided discussion on a potential election against Brendan Schwab and whether the Wallace signing would carry favour with members.
"The important thing was to get the man available," Casey said. "And if that can transform into on-field success then everybody's the winner. I'm not sure (if it will help me) because that will be a decision for the members, if it gets to that at the end of the year."
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/common/story_page/0,8033,10407639%255E19771,00.html
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Wallace to punt a losing culture
By Greg Denham
The Australian
August 11, 2004
TERRY WALLACE yesterday predicted a new winning culture at Richmond, but stopped short of declaring a time frame for success.
As revealed in The Australian on August 2, Wallace will take over from Danny Frawley at the end of the season and said development would be a long and difficult pathway.
"If you are looking at sustained premiership success, that takes a period of time," Wallace said.
Tigers president Clinton Casey announced yesterday that Wallace had accepted a five-year contract and would start in his position at Punt Road on October 1.
Football director Greg Miller, the man responsible for recruiting the former Western Bulldogs coach, also revealed the deal was as good as clinched three weeks ago at his second meeting with Wallace.
Casey said Richmond, who sit 15th on the ladder with just four wins after finishing 14th and 13th in the previous two seasons, offered Wallace a longer-than-normal deal because "there is no short-term fix in football".
"The board will provide the support and security for Terry to recruit and build a strong team that's going to produce some consistent performances for this footy club," Casey said.
Wallace said he wanted stability at Punt Road and would work towards a change of culture.
"I understand it's been a difficult time for all Tigers supporters and members and I'll be doing everything within my power to develop a winning culture back to the Richmond Football Club, getting it back to where it finally deserves to be," Wallace said.
Wallace said the opportunity to coach the Tigers would enable him to complete some "unfinished coaching business" that he had failed to achieve.
In 148 games at the helm of the Dogs, he won 79, lost 67 and drew two.
In almost six full years he got the Dogs into seven finals matches in four seasons. They were knocked out in consecutive preliminary finals in 1997 and 1998 by eventual premier Adelaide.
"Looking at the positives of Richmond, the efforts of both Clinton and Greg, and their professionalism in the way they approached all meetings conducted over a period of time, that made me super enthusiastic," Wallace said.
"I'm really hoping that there can be some stability within the Richmond footy club.
"It's something the club hasn't been able to achieve.
"I just thought that this football club was a club which has such a huge capacity to be one of the real strengths of the competition.
"I believe I can change the culture of the way the Richmond people are feeling about their footy club."
Wallace, 45, a life member at Hawthorn and the Western Bulldogs, said he now had the chance to fulfil a long ambition to achieve something special with Richmond after a brief playing career in 1987.
After leaving Hawthorn following the 1986 premiership, the last of his 174 games with the Hawks, he played just 11 games for the Tigers the following year before moving on to the Bulldogs.
"For all the reasons I had when I first walked into the club, some of those dreams might now be able to be realised," he said.
Wallace, who was interviewed by Hawthorn last week, said he had not got close to reaching terms with the Hawks because there were "just road blocks in the way that didn't allow it to get that far".
Wallace said it would be naive to think a player cull would not take place at Punt Road at the end of the season.
"You would be kidding yourself on any side that has finished in the bottom four on the ladder if you didn't think that was going to occur," he said.
"I think you have to go down that path.
"The players have had an ugly year and I cannot make any promises to any player on the list."
Wallace, highly regarded as a master tactician and innovative coach, spent the best part of the past two years working in the media since controversially quitting as coach of the Western Bulldogs with one round remaining in 2002.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,10407015%255E2722,00.html
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When something happens at RFC, it sure sells newspapers.
I bet when the Hawks appoint their coach, it'll be a piddly little paragraph lol
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Apologies for all the articles everyone. I just wanted to preserve this moment for prosperity.
You're not wrong froars :lol. Poor Eddie will be so jealous.
Five years is an extraordinary term. Yet, Richmond is an extraordinary challenge, and clubs were queuing up for Wallace.
Like those before him, he sees Richmond as a sleeping giant; unlike his predecessors, he seems equipped to jolt the giant into action.
First up, Richmond will set membership records before Christmas.
Woohoo! 33-35,000 hear we come :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup :thumbsup
The most significant of his observations was: "Supporters want to see their own players developed."
Based on that, the early draft choices this year will be invested in youth not expediency.
No more Fletchers, Marshes, Morrisons and Wellers from other clubs to fill holes.
Wallace said supporters wanted to see players start and finish at a club: first games and 250th games, like Glenn Archer has done with the Kangaroos.
"We know there's no short-term fix in football," he said.
It's Terry "Harry" Wallace ;D. Hearing this alone makes me even more confident we have the right man for job. :thumbsup.
It is a lesson Richmond supporters have learned the hard way. Now they know what lays ahead. Strangely enough, the majority will accept it this time.
Reality has finally and thankfully hit Tigerland. That's why!
Boys and Girls. It's still going to be tough and a long road ahead awaits but the Tigerarmy will begin its march back to the top on October 1, 2004. All aboard :cheers
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One thing that Terry didn't say in the above newspaper articles that he said on Talking Footy was when asked by Watson about Richo, Terry said he would always do what was best for Richmond (the team) as opposed to what's best for Richo or any individual player. Wallace added that we were too one-dimensional in our structure and too slow getting the ball inside 50. No surprises there. It'll be interesting to see what he does with the big fella.
He was also asked about Cambo being captain. Wallace said he didn't want to discuss individual players at this stage. Diplomatically mentioned how he had only played 11 games for Richmond while Cambo has 4 B&Fs. Terry said he would sit down with Cambo after the season finishes.
On gameplans. Terry said although there'll be differences, he would use the same philosophies and principles he used at the Dogs. Parkin chipped in replying to Watson that the exact gameplan depends on the players at your disposal and you work with what you've got.
The rest of the interview was mainly reiterating what's printed in the papers.
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I'm betting that a lot of former players will come back to the club. And I wouldn't be surprised if one of the greatest makes a prodigal return (no Oxx not Jack Dyer) - yeah I know - open up the old can of worms but who knows? I think this move will bring on a new and exciting era at Richmond.
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Terry was also asked about Brad Ottens on TF. I will give him credit he has not said much publicly about any player. On TF the only 3 he spoke about were Otto, Richo and Cambo.
He said that at his age and size Brad Ottens is an important "commodity for the RFC" but he needed to sit down with Brad and find out what Brad wants to do and what he wants to get out of his footy.
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The most significant of his observations was: "Supporters want to see their own players developed."
Based on that, the early draft choices this year will be invested in youth not expediency.
No more Fletchers, Marshes, Morrisons and Wellers from other clubs to fill holes.
Wallace said supporters wanted to see players start and finish at a club: first games and 250th games, like Glenn Archer has done with the Kangaroos.
"We know there's no short-term fix in football," he said.
It is a lesson Richmond supporters have learned the hard way. Now they know what lays ahead. Strangely enough, the majority will accept it this time.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!
Hearing this is better than sex . :bow
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh !!!
Hearing this is better than sex . :bow
Settle ;D
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Gotta agree with him WP....(or at least bad sex (if there is such a thing)!!)
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What Wallace has done, prior to making his decision, is get to know supporters’ thoughts. And I think he has really nailed what we want and expect from our footy club.
One of the things that was important in him in making his decision was that supporters wanted him as coach of Richmond and also that the Club wanted him as well.
His time out of footy has allowed him to re-assess some things that he will do differently this time round as Coach. For me, that’s probably one of his biggest selling points, because he’s flexible enough to change things that don’t work.
What came out in all this was the authority with which he spoke and the confidence in his own ability.
I don’t want to get too excited just yet, but it’s like the big black clouds over our footy club have finally gone somewhere else, or are at least starting to break away. :thumbsup :thumbsup
Anyway, I know we're in the middle of a drought, but I have to go throw a bucket or two of cold water over myself.
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Did you hear that Terry Wallace said he had been browsing the Internet (hi Terry!) to read what the supporters are thinking. Wonder if he made it to this wonderful site.
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lets hope terry hasnt been to ""the other"" site. If he has, he will pack his bags and head for the hills ! :lol
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Hall hails Wallace appointment
11:27:23 AM Wed 11 August, 2004
Paul Gough
Sportal
Richmond defender Ray Hall could well have been speaking for the entire Tigers' playing list when he hailed the appointment of Terry Wallace as coach as "a fresh start" for the struggling AFL club.
Hall, speaking exclusively to Sportal on Wednesday, said he was delighted to see the Tigers land their number one coaching target.
"It's a good result because they got the man they were after," Hall said of Wallace's appointment.
"It gives us stability going forward and after a tough couple of years for all of us, it's a fresh start going forward."
Hall, who says he has never met or spoken to the former Bulldogs coach, is looking forward to meeting Wallace.
"He has certainly got the credentials," he said of the man, who led the Bulldogs into the 1997 and 1998 preliminary finals in his first two years in charge.
In an unusual situation Wallace has been named as the new coach of the Tigers for the next five years, despite the club still having three games to play this year under its current coach Danny Frawley.
Hall said the players could not afford to think about the future under Wallace too much at the moment, instead concentrating all their energies on the last three games of the season.
"Everyone is happy it (the naming of the new coach) is done and we know now what is going to happen in the future and who our coach will be," Hall said.
"But now we (the players) have to concentrate on the last few games and try and get some wins on the board."
The Tigers have lost their past 11 games - their longest losing streak ever in one single season - but Hall said the players are desperate to get at least one more win on the board for the soon-to-be-departing Frawley.
"The way we have been playing in the last few weeks, there is no reason we can't win all three but do want to get at least one more win on the board for Danny."
Hall said the players also realised they are playing for their futures, with the new coach certain to make changes to the playing list.
But having wanted to be traded to Sydney last year and almost ending up at Geelong, Hall hopes he had a quiet trading period this year - declaring he wants to stay at Richmond for the long-term.
"It was a pretty stressful period last year but I am a definitely a Richmond man now," he said.
"I definitely want to stay at Richmond and be part of a fresh start next year and I have no doubt we can improve because we have got the players here."
http://richmondfc.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&spg=display&articleid=165212
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LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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:scream :lol :rollin
WHAT A PIC!!!!!!!!! BRILLIANT!
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Hall hails Wallace appointment
"It gives us stability going forward and after a tough couple of years for all of us, it's a fresh start going forward."
Lucky Frawley has only 3 weeks left...... his way is starting to rub off on the players
going forward................... LOL
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Hall hails Wallace appointment
"It gives us stability going forward and after a tough couple of years for all of us, it's a fresh start going forward."
Lucky Frawley has only 3 weeks left...... his way is starting to rub off on the players
going forward................... LOL
Although i'm loling i crying as well.
Its true,we have to de-spud the club first !