Richmond never tanked: Wallace

[one-eyed]

Plough just said there was never ever a conservation nor instruction to tank from anyone at the Richmond Football Club.

The St Kilda game (last round 2007) comments of his were taken out of context. We came from 6 goals down to hit the front by a couple of points with 16 minutes to play. Terry said he turned to the boys in the box and said get ready for the rollercoaster ride. We decided to just let them play. We still had the rotations etc. but we did nothing different to win but we also did nothing to lose the game which is the more important point. Ask Daniel Jackson who tried his guts out if he didn't try to win the game. We tried to win a game against a side 5 rungs above us on the ladder and lost by just 10 points with Gehrig in his final ever game kicking a goal after the siren. Gehrig kicked 5 that day and won St Kilda the game. Hard to argue that's tanking.

Plough then added that winning by a couple of points would have meant nothing apart from a few hand slaps on the back saying well done boys and that winning that game would've affected our ladder position by one spot - we would've finished 2nd last rather than last. The gap between the top two kids Kreuzer and Cotchin and the next Masten was huge [finishing 2nd last would have meant Carlton got both Kreuzer and Cotchin while Richmond got Masten]. Plough said his comments were just saying that no one should be put in that position.

[Dubstep Dookie]

Horse poo.

I was at that game.

Watch the footage of the last 5-7 mins. Watch Kingy's turnover.

[Fruity Morgan]

we never had to; we were crap

[RollsRoyce]

I was at that game too. Right up on the fence in the dying minutes giving it to Fraser Gehrig with both barrels in an attempt to put him off (for all the good it did.) Although I left bitterly disappointed, I never had the feeling anything untoward had been done by our blokes. As usual, we were just fighting out of our class.
Carlton were already going to steal our prize (Kruezer) and everybody knew it. They ended up with picks 1 and 3 (instead of 1 and 2 if we'd won). And they traded pick 3 to West Coast for Judd, which they would have done with pick 2 anyway.  

[mightytiges]

Pretty sure if we had won that game and missed out on Cotchin then we would've selected Cale Morton at pick 3 . Thank gawd we lost!

Imagine too if the Eagles had gained Cotchin on top of Josh Kennedy from trading Judd away. They'd be top 3 easily this year.

The worst thing of all of course if even though we did the right thing and lost and gained a priority pick (pick 18 used to get Rance) we then traded away pick 19 for Jordie  .

[Jackstar is back again]

Horse poo.

I was at that game.

Watch the footage of the last 5-7 mins. Watch Kingy's turnover.

Can tell you.we never tanked

[Penelope]

we never had to; we were crap

so true.

[mightytiges]

Watch Kingy's turnover.

That's just Kingy lol.

[Penelope]

 

[The Big Richo]

I reckon Dook's has a point. I saw Jackson turn it over late as well.

[Dubstep Dookie]

Poo to you all. I know what I saw and it will stick in my mind forever.

[Jackstar is back again]

I was a bit closer to the action than you.we weren't tanking

[Hellenic Tiger]

What about Polak dropping an easy mark in the final quarter about 40 out?
I still personally think we never tanked but I just find Plough talking about we did this and we did that is just too over the top considering IMHO he never did this...... and he never did that........... and look at where we are now still a couple of years way we do things right.

[The Big Richo]

I was a bit closer to the action than you.we weren't tanking

Are you Tony Free?

[Hellenic Tiger]

Horse poo.

I was at that game.

Watch the footage of the last 5-7 mins. Watch Kingy's turnover.

Can tell you.we never tanked

You didn't have an off field role in 2007 Jack. Where were you sitting?