I feel for Terry

[Go Richo 12]

This may not be the most popular thread getting around but im putting my neck on hte block anyway!
I feel sorry for the bloke, his family and friends. Who needs this sort of attention over what is, essentially, a game? I know you sign up for heat but this is over the top and no one can foresee this happening! Can you honestly remember anything like this happening before? I realise he made footy his career but alot of people do as it is all they know, but not many people cop this type of crap in their job!

[1965]

Nonsense.

I will give you 2 1/2 million reasons why we shouldn't feel sorry for Terry. ($500,0000 a year for five years)

I have walked away from a couple of highly paid jobs after discovering I didn't have what was required.

Terry will survive, a lucrative careeer in the Media awaits.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

'65

[Infamy]

Nonsense.

I will give you 2 1/2 million reasons why we shouldn't feel sorry for Terry. ($500,0000 a year for five years)

I have walked away from a couple of highly paid jobs after discovering I didn't have what was required.

Terry will survive, a lucrative careeer in the Media awaits.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

'65

Terry's salary is one of the cheaper salaries for a senior coaching role in the AFL

[TigerTime]

terry made is bed, he can sleep in it and have nightmares for ever the thievingprick

he has stolen 5 years of rfc development and life

he has definately not earnt his money and should reinburs the club and walk away

he said , and he said this last week, if he felt he has lost the group he will walk away

WELL WHY THE F ISNT HE WALKING??????????

HE HAS LOST THE GROUP AND THE WHOLE WORL KNOWS BUT HE AINT WALKING!!!! WHAT A LIAR , DAMN LIAR

sugar was smart, he noticed these comments last week thus would have thought if we let him the board and the world know , wallace will walk because he SAID HE WOULD!!!!!


but wallace stays because if he walks he loses financially. and we cant afford to pau him out

wallace has us by the balls and is a .....u know what!

[DallasCrane]

GR12, I feel sorry for people who have been thrown on the breadline because of this recession. I feel sorry for people who have done what they have been told to do by the Australian Government and put their money in super, only to watch their life savings evaporate before their very eyes, thanks to other people's mistakes.

Meanwhile, out of our bucket of money, 'marquee' club imports such as Nathan Brown. Troy Simmonds and TW have pulled $500,000 a year from our coffers and given us diddly squat.

My heart bleeds for them, it really does.  

[WilliamPowell]

I certainly feel for his family, especially his kids. It isn't their fault what's happened

[TigerTime]

I certainly feel for his family, especially his kids. It isn't their fault what's happened

I DONT SEE ANYONE  blaming his wife and kids or targeting them. if ppl do do that they are simply morons.  but his wife must now know she may cop stuff like your husband is a liar, becaus ehe is, it has been proven over the past few days.

on 3aw last week he said he would walk if he feels he has lost the group.... well?

[Tigermonk]

l got feelings for any coach that is put under so much preasure
maybe Terry staying on to honor his side of the contract is going to solve some major problems out in the playing group
l even go as far as offering him a 1 year extension to get the job done
our list is not that bad & have shown they can play in the past but its obvious some players have a problem as you can clearly see it in early games the childish errors they were making, Newman being a main offender.
The Board has not sacked Terry for the fact they are making a stand against such players. The Richmond football club will be better for taking this action even if players have to be retired & traded. Newman is stuck on a contract so his in a world of hurt 

[Stripes]

I also feel for TW. He has done what he said he would do and attempt to rebuild the club and turned over the majority of the list. It is an slur on the club that the players he kept from that period remain some of our worst.

I don't think the list is as bad as people make out. The core of our team is still developing without any leadership or mid-aged players for guidance. These young players will have to be our leaders and take the tags, pressure and pain so that the players we draft after team can be given the time and protection to develop unhindered. Players like Lids, Bling, Foley etc would have been 3rd or 4th in line in other teams but in ours they recieve the best opponents every week.

This why we aren't performing not because the rebuild has not worked. We will have to wait another 3-5 years before we have the mid-age players to compete with the rest of the competition.

TW has done his job but because he has not got us immediate success it will be the next coach/s  that will claim the credit.

No one deserves the constant pressure he is enduring especially when he has done his job, allowed us to begin to rebuild and played the youth.

Sad really and with rabid impatient supporters like we seem to have it is a miracle he was able achieve what he did and to see out his contract.

Fire Away

Stripes

[bushranger]

I honestly don't feel sorry for Terry, as if he can't get his team to do what he wants them to do there has to be something wrong.
Or is it a case that they are doing exactlly what he wants them to do and this is the problem as it is a crap game plan.
I really don't know, but as a coach he knew he would be in the firering line. So he has to take it all on the chin.
And get on with what he has got and make the most of it while he is still here.

[Stripes]

The thing I feel most saddened about is not necessarily TW but the media and Tiger supporters frenzy to sack and disgrace any coach we have at the first signs of underperformance.  No other club invokes such negative emotion from the football world consistently as Richmond does which continues to make us the most unattractive club to coach in the league.

If I was a coach and had a choice of going to any club in the league with the same list, I would choose the Tigers last because history shows me that eventually you will be crucified regardless of who or what you have done.

It's the reason why we will get a nobody to coach us next year which is the saddest thing of all 

Stripes

[1965]

The thing I feel most saddened about is not necessarily TW but the media and Tiger supporters frenzy to sack and disgrace any coach we have at the first signs of underperformance.  No other club invokes such negative emotion from the football world consistently as Richmond does which continues to make us the most unattractive club to coach in the league.

If I was a coach and had a choice of going to any club in the league with the same list, I would choose the Tigers last because history shows me that eventually you will be crucified regardless of who or what you have done.

It's the reason why we will get a nobody to coach us next year which is the saddest thing of all 

Stripes

At the first sign of underpreformance?

Please.

TW has had five years.

'65

[Infamy]

It was ALWAYS going to take longer than 5 years
Our kids from 2004 are still years away from their peak age where they can be the core the side is built around

I think we're at a very similar stage now as Hawthorn actually was in 2004.

[Smokey]

I think we're at a very similar stage now as Hawthorn actually was in 2004.

Yes we are.

[cub]

First and foremost I feel sorry for us, the supporters.
Coaches, players, admin come and go, we deal with it longer than any one of them.
We are the Richmond football clubas much as anyone representing it at the present time.

That said I have sympathy for Wallace as a person, not for a second do I beleive the total crap that some go on with.
I don't believe he came just for the money, I truely believe he came for the challenge of trying to help this great club and believe his sincerity in what he says.

Coaching as some mentioned wouldn't be an easy job and if you had a choice the way the media and the supporters carry on you would put Richmond down the list, that's for sure. So Kuedos to terry for picking us in that instance also.

If the last half of the year can see significant improvement under Wallace, I think it will. I say give him a 1 year deal, even if only for the sole reason of stabilising the place and people perceptions of the RFC.
Of course there will be divided opinion and I expect no less, but believe more good than harm could come from a move like this.

Yes I have done a backflip of sorts as I have stated Finals or bust, but this absolute hysteria has got me thinking what's the point of change just for the sake of change.
That is obviously baswed on the last half of the season mind you.