Wallace to Focus on Youth
By Mae Spooner for spittle.com.au
Embattled Richmond coach Terry Wallace says that he will spend the rest of the year focusing on youth following a sapping start to the season.
“Coaching has taken its toll and I’ve aged quite a bit in my time at Richmond,” he said at his weekly media conference. “The solarium and Rogaine simply don’t cut it anymore so I’m going to try to recapture my youth with some botox injections and a hair transplant.
“I also read that human growth hormone injections are the latest thing to keep men young and hip, so I’ll see what the club doctors say. But they usually do whatever I say, so no doubt they’ll be giving me a few jabs.”
When asked about whether his focus on youth would extend to the playing list he confirmed that senior players would be dropped if they didn’t pick up their intensity in key indicators such as tackling. “I’ve told the senior players to harden the *smile* up, but they need to understand that they can’t achieve that by relying on a nasal delivery spray. I speak from my own experience.”
Wallace promised to fast-track the development of the club’s junior players by giving them game time ahead of older players who had run out of chances. “We’re already a very young and inexperienced side,” he said. “Last week against the Lions we had five players who had played less than 15 games and 14 players who had played less than 62 games. And many of them had only been run on and off the bench in those games, so accounting for game time only Joel Bowden had played more than 36 games.
“We’re going to continue to go down that youth path and play more kids. Before the year is out I hope to be able to say that ALL of our players in a given match have played 20 games or less.
“Then we’ll delist them all so we can get more juniors into the club and continue to use inexperience as an excuse for our poor performances rather than my coaching.”
Wallace denied that the decision to play underdeveloped juniors indicated that the club was already tanking. “Tanking is for losers,” he said. “Oh, I see your point.”
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By Mae Spooner for spittle.com.au
Embattled Richmond coach Terry Wallace says that he will spend the rest of the year focusing on youth following a sapping start to the season.
“Coaching has taken its toll and I’ve aged quite a bit in my time at Richmond,” he said at his weekly media conference. “The solarium and Rogaine simply don’t cut it anymore so I’m going to try to recapture my youth with some botox injections and a hair transplant.
“I also read that human growth hormone injections are the latest thing to keep men young and hip, so I’ll see what the club doctors say. But they usually do whatever I say, so no doubt they’ll be giving me a few jabs.”
When asked about whether his focus on youth would extend to the playing list he confirmed that senior players would be dropped if they didn’t pick up their intensity in key indicators such as tackling. “I’ve told the senior players to harden the *smile* up, but they need to understand that they can’t achieve that by relying on a nasal delivery spray. I speak from my own experience.”
Wallace promised to fast-track the development of the club’s junior players by giving them game time ahead of older players who had run out of chances. “We’re already a very young and inexperienced side,” he said. “Last week against the Lions we had five players who had played less than 15 games and 14 players who had played less than 62 games. And many of them had only been run on and off the bench in those games, so accounting for game time only Joel Bowden had played more than 36 games.
“We’re going to continue to go down that youth path and play more kids. Before the year is out I hope to be able to say that ALL of our players in a given match have played 20 games or less.
“Then we’ll delist them all so we can get more juniors into the club and continue to use inexperience as an excuse for our poor performances rather than my coaching.”
Wallace denied that the decision to play underdeveloped juniors indicated that the club was already tanking. “Tanking is for losers,” he said. “Oh, I see your point.”
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