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Wallace prepares for new scrutiny
richmondfc.com.au
By Mic Cullen
1:44 AM Fri 27 March, 2009

AFTER just one match of the 2009 season, the intense gaze of the football world is locked firmly on Punt Road.

Richmond was belted by Carlton to the tune of 83 points and coach Terry Wallace has admitted that interest in his club would intensify with the result, the hamstring injury to recruit Ben Cousins and next week's date with pre-season premier Geelong.

Following the arrival of former Eagle Cousins and with Wallace in the last year of his current contract, the Tigers had a summer of scrutiny.

"We’re all big boys, we’ve been in this competition long enough and we understand that that puts us squarely in the spotlight," he said after the game.

"Whether that be myself, or the playing group, or the football club in general, we understand that’s the case.

"You have to have a tough resolve in this industry and work hard to get your way over it.

"Obviously we’ve got Geelong next week down at Geelong, which is a tough game, but they still tell me that 13 games normally gets you into a finals campaign, and that’s what we’re going to keep working towards."

Wallace said his side would make no excuses for its season-opening performance and agreed it would have pleased no-one in yellow and black.

"It was incredibly disappointing," he said. "Our fans didn’t want to see what they saw, I don’t want to be sitting here trying to make excuses for what was a poor effort, the players don’t want to be going through any of that as well.

"We had a couple of players who are in our very best players at the club ... I think two blokes had something like 19 turnovers for the night, guys that you wouldn’t expect it from.

"It wasn’t anything we went into the game expecting at all, and we couldn’t have been more disappointed."

Wallace said that key mistakes early on would have dented his players' confidence and, from there, it made it difficult for them to win contests around the ground.

"When you back into the shell, if you’re not attacking the footy you just look second-rate," he said.

"[The players] need to speak to each other about what you need to do to recover from that sort of performance.

"It is one game, but you just can’t sort of say it’s one game and try to just push over the cracks.

"There are some things there that need to be addressed, and the playing group need to address them.

"Including Ben (Cousins), everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong."

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[WilliamPowell]

Firstly let me start by saying that I don't think Tezza had a great night in the box...

Read: Edwards aint no HBF  , McGuane on Fev was a bad one, he was a better option for Cloke

But what really irks me is that this season after any loss all the attention will fall on Wallace and this will deflect attention away from the incompetant efforts of our players.. what a simple cop out they are given yet again

Simple example Simmonds dropping 4 marks in the first qtr & half, that aint the fault of Wallace. 

If Wallace deserves to be kicked then give him the kick but as I have said before dont forget the players after last night they deserve an almighty one up the backside

[Infamy]

I thought McGuane had a shocking opening quarter, but was good on Fev after that
Fev essentially stole Judd's goal when sticking his boot out on the goal line

[Francois Jackson]

Firstly let me start by saying that I don't think Tezza had a great night in the box...

Read: Edwards aint no HBF  , McGuane on Fev was a bad one, he was a better option for Cloke

But what really irks me is that this season after any loss all the attention will fall on Wallace and this will deflect attention away from the incompetant efforts of our players.. what a simple cop out they are given yet again

Simple example Simmonds dropping 4 marks in the first qtr & half, that aint the fault of Wallace. 

If Wallace deserves to be kicked then give him the kick but as I have said before dont forget the players after last night they deserve an almighty one up the backside

Yes he deserves to be kicked. your damm straight he does. He is the coach FFS.

Who recruited these guys???

Who recruited the Skills coach and duds like David King and Brian Royal??

Newsflash!! Wallace did

Maybe you need to open your eyes a little more WP and start to realise that TW will never be the coach you want him to be.

Edwrads HBF..hahaha Hyde vrs Goodes last year was it.  He is that much of a loser i wont call him a coach anymore.

[2JD]

If we give it as hard as they deserve, half wont be able to walk for a month!

Disappointed! They are disappointed???
How about humiliated?
               disgusted?
               shattered?
               unworthy?
There are so many words, so little time!  

[bushranger]

I know it is really early day, but if this is the way we play.
I can only see one thing and that is terry takes his walk early.
Cause I sure as hell don't want to look like we were 3 to 4 years ago again.
It was a crap game and this has to start at the top.
Don't lay all the blame on one but all of them.
But the players are playing to the way they have been taught.
So I do think if this continues Terry will get shoved out the door.
There has been little change to the way we go about the game.
As we are back to losing again. 

[wayne]

Firstly let me start by saying that I don't think Tezza had a great night in the box...

Why didn't he get Cousins in the middle earlier, I mean just to have at least one smart player at the centre bounces!!

If Wallace deserves to be kicked then give him the kick but as I have said before dont forget the players after last night they deserve an almighty one up the backside

Terry may be able to coach, but what he hasn't been able to do in his 4 years is make us a professional side. Carlton have turned it around in a couple of years, Ratten has spuds like Cloke, Houlihan, Wiggins and Hadley playing out of their skins and giving all they can depsite their limitations.  

Last night wasn't a rusty round 1 effort, it was a disgrace. We have guys like Brown, Bowden and Simmonds who are all in their 30's and meant to be leaders and are making the most costly errors of the night.

My main criticism of Terry though is the game plan. Last year it was 'we're going to be like Geelong' and now it's 'we're going to be like Hawthorn'.

If you want to save your job Terry, play the kids that are desperate for a game, not the cancerous types that are there for the money.

[3rogerd]

personally it all took on the appearance of a three ringed circus last night.

[wayne]

personally it all took on the appearance of a three ringed circus last night.

Maybe it was part of the comedy festival. I know I laughed.

[tiogar]

It is not all TW's fault but he is the man with Boss written on his door. The book stops with the coach. He has been coach of a poohouse team for years......he still is.

[bushranger]

Have to dissagree with you there tiogar. Wallace has a great team in the making's last night.
And last year we almost make it to the finals and you can't do that with a crap team.
So him coach a Poo team as you put it isn't the case it at his door.
He is the director of it all and he has to take heaps of the blame for last night's game.
And this is where I will say for the first time Wallace is the only one with Poo on his boots.
Cause this is the way he is training them.

[Fluffy Tiger]

Last night wasn't a rusty round 1 effort, it was a disgrace. We have guys like Brown, Bowden and Simmonds who are all in their 30's and meant to be leaders and are making the most costly errors of the night.

My main criticism of Terry though is the game plan. Last year it was 'we're going to be like Geelong' and now it's 'we're going to be like Hawthorn'.

If you want to save your job Terry, play the kids that are desperate for a game, not the cancerous types that are there for the money.

I saw the same crap a few weeks ago and was told "hey they are just rusty, it will be fine when the real stuff starts" and was given several reasons why players loose skills and smarts over the summer break. Well its all crap.

To me they all look confused. The are thinking about the schemes and swtiches and zones etc and just not just playing football. Lids and Foley and many other normally skilled players were turning the ball over. Why?? Well I think is becasue they are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do next and not just worring about excuting the task at hand. For gods sake, tell them to go out there and beat a man and take NATURAL option. Play like they did when they were kids, hey thats what got them to this level in the first place.  It might be a more simplistic few and old fashion view but to me we had a better team "on Paper" man for man, so why not take them on man for man.

One very peeed off Fluffy, who tipped the Tigers even though he saw this comming 3 weeks ago.

[camboon]

Just don't think we can play zones well, based on our skill level.

I belive TW tried this basketball crap last year and it just did'n't work.

Anyway a few of the other kids might get a game now.

I agree with the comment Ëdwards is not a backman = he panicks and coughs it up and is very loose.

Hope Raines's injury is not that bad as he looked ok last light

Also though Blinger played ok, did some hard stuff and had good skillls.


Still cant belive our skilll level and why they pass it to a player standing still

[Tigermonk]

Richmonds problem is they rush without thinking always trying to play on when a player is too close running into trouble having no second option & they are under preasure constantly & this is where turnovers come from & bad options being made.
Also makes the situation look worse cause everything is so rushed
Cousins shows by example his skills as he evades /props giving himself just that extra 2 seconds to deliver the ball to set something up
Richmond are not playing thier own game letting clubs dictate them, & they should stick to thier own game plans
Some are not doing thiuer jobs down there & need replacing, They should also get new medical staff after what we all seen last night.
Richmond have always had this thing for playing injured players for as long as l can rememeber they totally break players

[WilliamPowell]

Maybe you need to open your eyes a little more WP and start to realise that TW will never be the coach you want him to be.

daniel I will repeat what I said at the beginning - Wallace did not coach well last night can I make it any clearer

There were shocking match ups etc - it was a shocking night

But as I said and I will say it again to put all blame on the coach is laughable and to not put the spotlight of accountability on the players as well is unforgivable and unacceptable...

I understand the arguement the coach is the boss and the buck stops with him but reality is once they cross the white line the players take the spotlight and last night we got blinded by it.....

I am a boss, I have staff and I train them teach them but once they walk out of my office how much control do I have that they follow the instructions to the enth degree? I'll tell you not bloody much

Am I peeved you bloody better believe I am peeved.

And I chucking the in membership and not going anymore - not on your bloody life

So for now I will sit back and see how this footy club deals with this fiasco as they have 2 choices

Is losing to Carlton the worst thing that's gonna happen to me footy wise in 2009?

Sorry but nope it aint because losing one of my best footy mates to a brain tumour early this year is going to be hard to top

Thus endeth my rant