WP i thought u had some footy nous maybe i was wrong
the reason is simple wallace wants to win as many games as possible much like Pagan in his final year.
do you think TW has got tanking on his mind when he knows he needs to get runs on the board and fast.
however a new coach, fresh ideas would want to jump on the tank train.
a new coach would enforce the tank against the dees or freo in round 21, wheras TW knows he must win those games to keep the wolves at bay.
Daniel - there are 2 distinct questions here, for me at least.
1/ Do we tank or do we try and win? - After 26 years of being nowhere, the thought of tanking doesn't work for me. What does that teach the kids we currently have. Are you telling me to tank for the remainder of the year is going to be good for the likes of a Cotchin, who is going to be an absolute gun ??? A player by the way was recruited by the current football department, who everyone keeps telling me on this board supposedly doesn't have the vaguest clue about anything?
FACTS are rightly or wrongly that in the last 2 weeks we have played 6 of the crappiest quarters of football ever - you tell me that the first half against wasn't OK? The fact that it was OK made the 2nd half all the more disgraceful IMHO.
However, whether people want to admit it or not until the Sydney game, there had been improvement, the game plan and excution of it was showing some promise. That's not spin doctoring that's what the results showed.
2nd question is do we sack the coach: Again just my opinion but I don't think it will achieve anything but appease people in the short term.
And then my answer to the question is who do we replace him with? K Sheedy and his cronies - please give me a break 
I don't believe in sacking coaches, never have, never will because sacking a coach only fills the cracks, plugs the holes - it is the easiest way out and gee it makes everyone feel a bit better for a little while. But what happens in 2 years, 3 years time and we are still here tapping away here frustrated because again we think nothing has changed
Again and this just IMHO there a few players that should go before the coach does but to do that I suppose it's all a bit difficult isn't it.
As I said it's just my opinion but I will give you one of these 
Daniel because at least you have been super consistent in your dislike of Wallace
Good Post.
Richmond as a club has needed structural change to catch up over 25 years of disfunction. The 1987 VFL expansion has coincided with RFC's worst performing period - worse than the post war years to the mid 60's.
The structure of the club has had to be dragged kicking & screaming into the AFL era as it has been myred by in-fighting and a retribution culture. RFC is not the envy of the league - that was 1974 !!!!
Ray Dunn had the vision of a club that would be modern for its time based at the MCG, play an exciting brand of long-kicking, high marking contested footy that would be mass marketed to the baby boomer generation coupled with appeal to an increasingly interested corporate sector. He recruited key personnel in GR, Schwab and basically got the front office in order.
Steve Wright's appointment is, IMHO, the cornerstone on which a sustained campaign can commence. The recruiting & football department has at last recognised that short cuts will not provide sustained success (whilst I acknowledge there have been 2 instances of deviation in Polak & MacMahon) there has been no trading for 'marque' players (eg. Johnno & Brown) oe even where a Sziller, Stafford or King has been recruited to the club
In brief, sacking coaches does has not worked for 25 years during the transition from semi-professional to the full professional era, and patience is and will continue to be required to put the platform in place to achieve a sustained competitive list.
To sack the coach 3.5 years into a 5 year deal is reactionary at best and akin to blinking when faced with a serious challenge.
RFC should stay the course for at least the remainder of this season and conduct a comprehensive review of operations from board level to boot studder at the conclusion of the season. The full football department should be given a comprehensive aim so as to avoid motherhood statements like the mediocraty clause.
If the aims for the 2009 season (whatever they are they should be public knowledge to encourage ownership through the organisational strata) aren't achieved a large broom should be used as everyone should be on notice.
No more spin, no more mediocraty & no more populist reactionary key decision making.
