Streak said:
I have thought for some time that the Dogs you are talking about here were Terry Wheelers team, and the Dogs that Eade has now are TWs team.
You nailed it, Streak. Why isn't that obvious? And BTW whose list did Roos inherit? Was this a close call? Simple, sack everyone who got it wrong.
Terry Wallace inherited a fine list at Footscray. And on game day he did it more than justice. He's a fine game day coach. The battles between him and Eade in the day, Footscray v Sydney were a pleasure to watch. More moves than at any time in history.
But Wallet steadily eroded the strength of the side with his predeliction for the under-nourished.
When he traded for Nathan Eagleton he went all out. The blokes he traded from Footscray were Montgomery who went All Australian the next year(?) and Stephen Powell, who was a change mid for the Saints in their best year of the past fifteen or more. Melbourne gave up premiership #3 back - Matthew Bishop in the deal. But Footscray didn't need talls- still don't.
What did Footscray get from this? Some would say ten years from a fine running flanker. I would say a ten year sentence to a pea-hearted down hill skier. And at what cost?
To be sure I don't care what he gave up. What kills me and damns Wallace is the type he targeted. A flanker. And when was that ten years ago? Has he learned nothing?
When Terry Wallace was appointed as Richmond coach, I regarded it as a disaster. I never doubted his game day coaching. But the models he preferred were worse than Neesham's. It was his list management that was terrifying. It would take years after we got rid of him to right his list bungling. And five years to get rid of him. If you were sixty when we appointed him you'd be dead before we eradicated is legacy.
The spoon is not the problem in itself. If anything it may exacerbate the long term problem. One of the easiest assignments in the comp is to get a spooner off the bottom with some pretty outside players.
That's where the problem lies. Terry can save himself and finally deliver on his *smile* sixteen goals a game promise in the next two years (but never in elite company). Then buy another two years to further destroy the list.
He has to go before his term is out. And so does the bloke who appointed him. Before irreparable damage is done.
That's why we should go after Nathan Buckley. Job opportunity.
(Oh, and Michael Voss would do well at Collywood - nuffer.)
