Trevor Grant in the Herald-Sun talks about Pagan at Carlton coaching far more 10 goal plus hidings per game than even Spud. If you just take the raw figures Wallace also has a worse percentage than Spud
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Wallace: 6/30 = 1 in every 5 games
Pagan: 18/74 = 1 in every 4
Spud: 15/113 = 1 in every 8
But when you look how we performed the following week after a thrashing, our record under Wallace is a positive 4 wins and 2 narrow losses. Under Spud we had a 4-9 overall and only 2-8 in his last 3 years combined with long runs of consecutive demoralising losses.
Although it's still early days, Wallace seems to be able to keep the players belief and confidence levels up and focussed on where they want to get to in the long-term despite a step backward no matter how bad once every 5 weeks.
