Wallace is playing both Richmond and Hawthorn against each other and he will then sign with the best deal.
If he signs for Richmond ( I seriously doubt it after a 4hr meeting with the dawks and another meeting with them on friday) I would still like to know who this "reliable source" person really is and find out who at Punt Road has a big mouth and cant keep it apparently shut, because if they kept it shut in the first place perhaps all this waiting for Wallace to have a meeting with the hawks would never have happened.
You have to wonder how different things would have been had someone not opened their big mouth.
As for whether Wallace is playing one Club against another, I have a different theory.
I actually think Wallace has helped out both the current Richmond and Hawthorn Administrations/Boards. Whether it was intended or not, who knows and if it helps, does it matter?
Because, by Wallace coming out and saying that he wouldn’t take on any Club that was unstable at Board level, he put pressure on any warring factions to cease fire.
It worked in Richmond’s case, but not sure whether the same will happen at Hawthorn. From what Dunstall said on TFS last night, they have been having discussions with Scott for a couple of months now. But not much, if anything, seems to have been resolved in that time and it doesn’t sound like progress will happen quickly from hereon in.
By Wallace again coming out and saying he won’t coach them if there’s a challenge going on behind the scenes he puts pressure on Scott and so both parties either resolve things quickly or lose out on his services.
If that happens then it helps their current administration, because by not supporting the Club, huge public pressure is placed on Scott and his challenge may disintegrate because of the backlash that will surely follow. Nothing’s certain of course, but that’s one theory.
