the outcome

[17]

The club will try and hold things together until the mid year review after round 11.
The review will conclude, amongst other things, that Wallace will not be offered a new contract in 2010.
Wallace will then resign and a caretaker installed.
Newman's approach on Monday was clumsy and naive but I am not convinced it was delivered in the words that Hutchison and others have so adamantly claimed.
In any case, the club is right to back Newman, as he is not the problem here.
It's Wallace, and a few of his mates, and clearly a few senior players.
All will be gone by years end, and Wallace in 3 weeks.
So extremists should chill out, sit tight, maintain their support of the playing group, and let it all play out.

 

[geoffryprettyboy]

I think I would of started off by saying Newman and Co. MUST do the REAL talking on the ground or else the spotlight WILL focus on him, as well.

 

[Tigers of Old]

The club will try and hold things together until the mid year review after round 11.
The review will conclude, amongst other things, that Wallace will not be offered a new contract in 2010.
Wallace will then resign and a caretaker installed.
Newman's approach on Monday was clumsy and naive but I am not convinced it was delivered in the words that Hutchison and others have so adamantly claimed.
In any case, the club is right to back Newman, as he is not the problem here.
It's Wallace, and a few of his mates, and clearly a few senior players.
All will be gone by years end, and Wallace in 3 weeks.
So extremists should chill out, sit tight, maintain their support of the playing group, and let it all play out.

Good post 17.

Agree totally that Wallace has created this fiasco (by refusing to walk) even if Newman's reaction to it was poor.

MUST do the REAL talking on the ground or else the spotlight WILL focus on him, as well.

Agree Geoffrey. The heat is now squarely on the players.

 

[TOT70]

You know, I hadn't realised that Hutchison was thought of quite this highly.

Call me stupid and naive, but my overall impression of the man is that he is generally considered to be a tad unreliable and is not particularly well-liked by the football public. People are far more likely to describe him with terms like gutter-crawler, garbage-trawler and douche-bag than hold him in their highest regard. I'm bemused by all this sudden credibility.

This club is in turmoil. We know this. It has been since the rout against Carlton in round one. It was one kick in the mouth too many for long-suffering fans, one mountain too many for the coach to try to climb, one public relations disaster too many to come out smelling like roses.

It is no different to the turmoil that Carlton and Essendon were in 18 months ago when they ousted their coaches. How can anyone forget the Barry Mitchell fiasco, or Patrick Smith talking up the rebel group that met wanting to keep Sheedy coaching them forever, or the media throng that greeted Sheedy just after the fatal board meeting. A similar fiasco is beginning to loom at Collingwood and it wont be long before Hutchy turns his attention there. These are the clubs that sell newspapers and increase ratings, scum like Hutchy don't miss these opportunities.

Its clobbering time. The coach has to go, players have to be moved on, change must be implemented. It is not an easy thing to manage. Slime-balls like Hutchison don't help the situation, nor are they trying. They are looking for every opportunity to destabilise and hinder the process, all in the name of enhancing their own dubious reputations.

It is interesting that other journalists have not accentuated the Chris Newman- Terry Wallace confrontation.

This is a club that has behaved in an unprofessional manner for years.

However, in this instance, they told us last year that Wallace needed to make finals in 09 or it would be curtains, that the decision would be made after the mid-seson break and that the club would honour its side of the bargain with Wallace, rightly or wrongly.

Wallace has stated that he is comfortable with this from the outset and that he is still prepared to go on until no longer required, again rightly or wrongly. I don't see anything unprofessional from either board or coach.

The only dignified way out of this soured relationship is to let them play it out in their own good time.

Why give creedence to anything written or spoken by tabloid journalists?

 

[IanG]

You know, I hadn't realised that Hutchison was thought of quite this highly.

Call me stupid and naive, but my overall impression of the man is that he is generally considered to be a tad unreliable and is not particularly well-liked by the football public. People are far more likely to describe him with terms like gutter-crawler, garbage-trawler and douche-bag than hold him in their highest regard. I'm bemused by all this sudden credibility.

Its not just him though.

 

[Angie]

Great post TOT. Heads down, backsides up.