Terry Wallace on the couch tonight

[bushranger]

I really would like to know why Wallace is protecting Tambling. Has he seen something no one else has seen.
The poor excuse that he has used is only something for him to hide behind.
I know what it is like with a new kid in the house and a screaming one at that.
If he isn't up to the job he should be dropped, and cut making excuses for him.
He was resigned way too early in my mind, and now he is taking the mantle of Kane Johnson. BAD.
Tambling may put in but it isn't in the game as he runs on the outside of the pack all the time.
I have hardly seen him put his body on the line ever. Not to say he hasn't done it but recently he is just skimming the pack.
And this all comes down to the game plan of Wallace, he needs to fix it quick.
The players are playing the way they are being trained. And it is showing up badly on the feild.
Keep this up and we will be lucky to keep half our members.
And I think Wallace should have eyes on his back as heaps are gunning for him now.

[DallasCrane]

The thing that annoyed me the most about the interview last night was the bit on Edwards. They showed some footage of him and his poor kick into our FP against Geelong that went straight to them. They asked Wallace what should Edwards have done in that situation.
Wallace replied something like "He should have held it up a bit and looked laterally for other options"

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Edwards was 55m out from goal. All he had to do was to get past one opponent and he was clear for a shot at goal from 45 dead in front.

The answer should have been:
"Edwards should have used his natural evasive ability to get past his opponent and have a shot. If he got caught or got in trouble, he should then look laterally for team mates"

This poor answer by Wallace highlighted a couple of things for me:
1) We are not using the natural abilities of our players. Edwards is an attacking player. He looks lost at the moment and I blame that 100% on the coaching staff.
2) We are trying to progress to goals inch by inch instead of long, direct and fast. This is why Riewoldt and Schulz look so out of sorts at the moment and I too blame that on the coaching. Hopeless.

That answer also smacks of a coaching panel that is copying other teams' plans instead of formulating one of it's own.

We are paying over $1 million of OUR money each year for these idiots to coach our players. 

[wayne]

The thing that annoyed me the most about the interview last night was the bit on Edwards. They showed some footage of him and his poor kick into our FP against Geelong that went straight to them. They asked Wallace what should Edwards have done in that situation.
Wallace replied something like "He should have held it up a bit and looked laterally for other options"

Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Edwards was 55m out from goal. All he had to do was to get past one opponent and he was clear for a shot at goal from 45 dead in front.

The answer should have been:
"Edwards should have used his natural evasive ability to get past his opponent and have a shot. If he got caught or got in trouble, he should then look laterally for team mates"

This poor answer by Wallace highlighted a couple of things for me:
1) We are not using the natural abilities of our players. Edwards is an attacking player. He looks lost at the moment and I blame that 100% on the coaching staff.
2) We are trying to progress to goals inch by inch instead of long, direct and fast. This is why Riewoldt and Schulz look so out of sorts at the moment and I too blame that on the coaching. Hopeless.

That answer also smacks of a coaching panel that is copying other teams' plans instead of formulating one of it's own.

We are paying over $1 million of OUR money each year for these idiots to coach our players. 

Who remembers Edwards first game, against Adelaide.

Tried taking them on, even took on McLeod, was cocky and confident. He got caught a couple times, but it was ok because he was having a crack and trying to make things happen.

Wallace stifles players and stops them from playing their natural game!!

Remember Foley bursting out of the centre 2 years ago and popping a couple of goals through against Collingwood, and doing it a couple more times against other opposition?? Whatever happened to that?

Even Tambling in his first NAB game, racing through the guts and kicking a supergoal.

They have had all their confidence sapped by Wallace. It seems that anytime a player shows some flair and does something exciting, they get told to stop doing it.   

[camboon]

Richmond need to:

Take a deep breath and take stock. Not too many experts picked us to beat Geelong or the Dogs and Carlton were favourites!!!! Still disapointing but I know most jerno's take great pleasure watching us eat out own.

In my veiw the game plan does not work ,we don't have the skill to carry it off. Do you go man on man or flood but its too early in the season to make wholesale changes. To change the coach at this stage acheives nothing and to throw kids in that are struggleing in the 2"s is counter productive - we do have a few that should come in though.

Moving forward, TW can't blame others if we fall in a heap as he has 5years to develop the list and develop a winning game plan. I belive the problem with the list is we continue to pick up other clubs discards and I'm not talking about Cuz as he was last pick in the total draft and the marketing value alone made it worthwhile.

In summary, I hope someone at the club has a long term plan that we stick to, other wise its just depressing!

[WilliamPowell]

Richmond need to:

Take a deep breath and take stock. Not too many experts picked us to beat Geelong or the Dogs and Carlton were favourites!!!! Still disapointing but I know most jerno's take great pleasure watching us eat out own.

  Exactly

In my veiw the game plan does not work ,we don't have the skill to carry it off. Do you go man on man or flood but its too early in the season to make wholesale changes. To change the coach at this stage acheives nothing and to throw kids in that are struggleing in the 2"s is counter productive - we do have a few that should come in though.

Last 11 games of 2008 we played man on man attacking footy, we ran the lines, created space but above all else we got hard running off the backline. So far in 2009 we have had that for a total of 2 and half quarters.

That's should be our game plan, I reckon it is that it is game plan.

throwing kids to the wolves for the sake of it isn't the answer but certainly those who deserve a shot should be given one