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Terry Wallace coaching record

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shamekha

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i was doing some research on Wallace's past record at the bulldogs. Now i know he came across with big wraps but in looking back his record doesn't sit all that well.

He had quite a good team at the bulldogs and a ready made team at that. Junior players on his list were of the calabre of N. Brown, L.Gilbee, Giansericusa, S.West, R.Murphy, etc.. Now this got me thinking on a whether the tigers list was comparable and looking at it i would say YES.

After 3 seasons the bulldogs were on the slide. Here is how they went - 15th, 3rd, 2nd, 4th, 7th, 10th, 12th

So after getting a ready made team Wallace was unable to develop it moving forward.

After Peter Rhode's inglorious effort Rodney Eade took over and moulded this group into a very good side. This raised a couple of questions.

1/ Can Wallace develop young players?
2/ Is his game plan or lack thereof adequate?
3/ Was it the Alan Joyce recruiting that got Wallace up and going?
4/ By saying to the board that he will be following Geelong's example does this mean he needed to copy and didn't have his own ideas.
5/ Is RFC just very unlucky when it comes to coaches?

i'm currently a very confused and disillusioned supporter at the moment.
 
Good insight......

Many Richmond supporters are under the misconception that he is a good coach, and even worse, some want to keep him on so he can really destroy us!!!

He is nothing but a fraud that has taken us for a ride for too long....

The sooner that we get rid of him, the sooner that we can move on!!!!
 
FSUB10Y said:
Many Richmond supporters are under the misconception that he is a good coach, and even worse, some want to keep him on so he can really destroy us!!!
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....and even worse, if you watched On the Couch and Footy Classified the other night, the media have this idea he is a good coach as well.
And of course, once the media keep going on about how Wallace is a good coach then many people start believing it and begin looking for other scapegoats.
 
In TW's defence, after finishing 4th in 1999 (and then getting bowled out of the finals in straight sets) TW said that the club simply didn't have a list capable of winning a premiership and so cleaned out the list and brought in a bunch of juniors. They were always going to slide down the ladder when they started to rebuild.

Having said that, your point that TW can't develop a side probably still holds. His best years were 1997-1999 when he coached a mature list. His best period at Richmond was the beginning of 2005 when, with a more mature team (Richo, Brown, Johnson, Bowden, Simmonds, Kellaway, Gaspar, Campbell, Chaffey, Stafford, Graham, Pettifer, Krakouer, all of whom were at least fifth year players) he got us off to a flyer at 7-2.
 
Here is another quaestion to ask ourselves.

Does Terry lose the respect of his younger players? Become to friendly with group/ leadership group which impacts on the younger players coming through because they can't get into the clique? Therefor feel on the outer and lose some of the passion.

It would explain why the development of juniors has been a consistent problem.
 
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