Wallace's Richmond preview / tipping us to win 16 games (audio and summary)

[tony_montana]

One of the few that doesn't have the bombres in the 8 

[the claw]

peeing myself at rance being best 1v1 defender. does he even watch games.

Wallace is clearly correct. Do you even watch games ? 
 Can I suggest you take a look at ( for eg ) Richmond vs Hawthorn last year. One of the best man on man performances you'll see by Rance against Buddy Franklin. He slaughtered him.
 You seriously have NFI dude !

oh deary me.

[Coach]

Wallace is a gimp. Not sure I have seen Frawley bash us to be honest. I do know that the players loved him. At least he coached us to finals. Wallace will pump up any player that was drafted when he was coaching

Rance probably is our best 1v1 defender out of our talls. Astbury has no runs on the board, Chaplin can't even go 3rd man up without pooting his pants and Grimes has hardly played on a good tall in recent times. Not sure overhead marking is Lance Franklins strength, dicey

[the claw]

Wallace is a gimp. Not sure I have seen Frawley bash us to be honest. I do know that the players loved him. At least he coached us to finals. Wallace will pump up any player that was drafted when he was coaching

Rance probably is our best 1v1 defender out of our talls. Astbury has no runs on the board, Chaplin can't even go 3rd man up without pooting his pants and Grimes has hardly played on a good tall in recent times. Not sure overhead marking is Lance Franklins strength, dicey

good summation.
on rance while OUR  so called best 1v1  tall defender . Is he a good 1v1 defender over all. or is he just the best of a poor lot in this one facet of the game. i know what my eyes tell me.
unbelievable that people cant acknowledge this bloke has had huge problems 1v1 and continues to do so.
then again i suppose those of us who criticise him just imagines  all the slipping over, the mistimed punches. the regular outbodying.  the constant being caught out of position yep we dont really see those things thats  just our imagination. thats not to say he doesnt do these things well at times.
even i admit hes a good player in certain areas but 1v1 is not one of them.

[Diocletian]

Wallace is a gimp. Not sure I have seen Frawley bash us to be honest. I do know that the players loved him. At least he coached us to finals. Wallace will pump up any player that was drafted when he was coaching

Rance probably is our best 1v1 defender out of our talls. Astbury has no runs on the board, Chaplin can't even go 3rd man up without pooting his pants and Grimes has hardly played on a good tall in recent times. Not sure overhead marking is Lance Franklins strength, dicey

good summation.
on rance while OUR  so called best 1v1  tall defender . Is he a good 1v1 defender over all. or is he just the best of a poor lot in this one facet of the game. i know what my eyes tell me.
unbelievable that people cant acknowledge this bloke has had huge problems 1v1 and continues to do so.
then again i suppose those of us who criticise him just imagines  all the slipping over, the mistimed punches. the regular outbodying.  the constant being caught out of position yep we dont really see those things thats  just our imagination. thats not to say he doesnt do these things well at times.
even i admit hes a good player in certain areas but 1v1 is not one of them.

Exacto mundo, Mr. C.

[tigs2011]

Wallace is a gimp. Not sure I have seen Frawley bash us to be honest. I do know that the players loved him. At least he coached us to finals. Wallace will pump up any player that was drafted when he was coaching

Rance probably is our best 1v1 defender out of our talls. Astbury has no runs on the board, Chaplin can't even go 3rd man up without pooting his pants and Grimes has hardly played on a good tall in recent times. Not sure overhead marking is Lance Franklins strength, dicey

good summation.
on rance while OUR  so called best 1v1  tall defender . Is he a good 1v1 defender over all. or is he just the best of a poor lot in this one facet of the game. i know what my eyes tell me.
unbelievable that people cant acknowledge this bloke has had huge problems 1v1 and continues to do so.
then again i suppose those of us who criticise him just imagines  all the slipping over, the mistimed punches. the regular outbodying.  the constant being caught out of position yep we dont really see those things thats  just our imagination. thats not to say he doesnt do these things well at times.
even i admit hes a good player in certain areas but 1v1 is not one of them.

Pretty well spot on. Except 1 v 1 doesn't only cover under a high ball. He's gotten better but he's still never going to beat a Cloke/Pavlich monster type whose strength is the high ball. We just need to find someone to take those so Rance doesn't get abused doing it.

[Diocletian]

Rance is one those defenders who plays better the further away from goal he is. Kelvin Moore was another one. Between the arcs rebounding tall backs - almost like oversized 3rd HBF's.

[tony_montana]

Rance's best asset in terms of defensive quality is running in a straight line at the contest, he can keep up with Buddy and Reiwoldt on the lead, fantastic closing speed which is why I prefer him on a leading fwd. The problem is most of the FF's understand his main weakness is under a high ball so they play him that way. Its no coincidence that 2 of the stronger more physical power fwds in Pav and Cloke give him a bath(throw in Petrie too) each time they play him. Roo and Buddy not so.

[Stripes]

That's why Astbury is being developed to play on these guys. Did a good job in the preseason.

[TigerMonk]

Wallace is a idiot.  l dont know why there is a topic on what he thinks.