Wallace gutted after lost win
richmondfc.com.au
By Mic Cullen 7:12 PM Sat 04 April, 2009
RICHMOND supporters will be heartened by a vastly improved performance – losing to Geelong by just 20 points compared to last week’s 14 goal-drubbing from Carlton – but the club is anything but happy.
There were raised voices in the rooms after the match and coach Terry Wallace looked drawn and unhappy at the post-match media conference.
"When I’m driving back up the Geelong Highway I don’t think I’ll be too heartened," Wallace said after the game.
"You come to win a game of footy and we didn’t get the result.
"Every game of footy in this competition is big. It’s another game of AFL footy and you want to win every one."
Wallace said losing the match after leading by one point at the final change left a worse feeling than last week's result.
"I probably feel flatter today," Wallace said. "I suppose a lot of people would find that strange, but I suppose we’ve got a lot of self-belief in what we’re doing and what we are as people, and I thought that wasn’t us last week.
"And although it was humiliating and everything else, I knew that wasn’t us.
“The game’s about winning and we were never going to be in a winning position last week, but [today] we were in with a real chance to win a game of footy which would have been a fantastic game of football for us to get victory.
"Unfortunately we couldn’t get the job done, so that irks me even more."
Even at quarter time, with the Cats having had eight scoring shots to two, Wallace said he was feeling good about the way things were going.
"I didn’t think it was worrying at all at quarter time, with the exception that I think both sides had gone (inside 50) 12 times in the quarter and we’d scored twice and they’d scored eight or nine times," he said.
"I said to the guys that our numbers – our contested footy, where things were going, the amount of possession time each of the teams had had – everything else was alright but they’d just done it neater and we’d gifted them a couple of goals early in the match.
"So I thought if we kept up, I had no doubt that part of it would turn alright.
"At the end of the day, we had a lot more marks inside our forward end than they had over the course of the day, so we did do some things right in the second and third quarter to get back into it."
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