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Captain Sensible
28 Aug 2002, 17:06
News FLash-Wallace will NOT be coaching the team on saturday.
The work will be shared between Phil Maylin and someone else.
On aw about 5 minutes ago.
Wonder if the players voted him out.
Thats good, whats the point in him coaching on Satdee. We are moving forward we don't need satisfy Wallace anymore!
I think its good too........the AW reporter introduced it as 'another blow for the dogs' or something like that - but it isn't a blow. Better off having someone who wants to be there coach the guys.
Are we to believe Maylin is staying?
Westy_Boy
28 Aug 2002, 17:19
I totally understood his reasoning for wanting to coach the last game on the weekend ... wanting the playing group to know that it would have been the last time together while it was actually happening ... most coaches wouldn't have given a shlt and just plssed off the day after without saying a thing.
But this is a sad ending - the press conference will probably be the last time we'll ever see Plough at the club.
Originally posted by Westy_Boy
I totally understood his reasoning for wanting to coach the last game on the weekend ... wanting the playing group to know that it would have been the last time together while it was actually happening ... most coaches wouldn't have given a shlt and just plssed off the day after without saying a thing.
But this is a sad ending - the press conference will probably be the last time we'll ever see Plough at the club.
I am of the opinion that Plough may have been better served to tell the playing group that this was happening, and annouce it publicly later.
The above may have been a problem within itself, as rumours would have almost certainly surfaced.
However, i am not at all suprised
Originally posted by Westy_Boy
I totally understood his reasoning for wanting to coach the last game on the weekend ... wanting the playing group to know that it would have been the last time together while it was actually happening ... most coaches wouldn't have given a shlt and just plssed off the day after without saying a thing.
But this is a sad ending - the press conference will probably be the last time we'll ever see Plough at the club.
I'm in two worlds, either way if this is correct, I would hope that it came from the players and it was thier decision to end it this way.
Originally posted by Westy_Boy
I totally understood his reasoning for wanting to coach the last game on the weekend ... wanting the playing group to know that it would have been the last time together while it was actually happening ... most coaches wouldn't have given a shlt and just plssed off the day after without saying a thing.
But this is a sad ending - the press conference will probably be the last time we'll ever see Plough at the club.
Sad if you dwell on it!
Come on this is like when your girlfriend leaves you. Stuff them. Move on! Wallace is dead. Long live the new coach!
I would be surprised if Maylin did it. Isn't he Wallace's bum buddy?
I would expect Maylin to go with Wallace next year.
Peter Rhode would be a better option.
I am hoping that the players can show the heart that the Roos did when faced with the loss of Carey. The Kangas have shown everyone that they are a tight unit with an unbelievable amount of courage. Are our boys capable of rising above what's happened and using it to become stronger in their resolve?
Originally posted by Chops
Sad if you dwell on it!
Come on this is like when your girlfriend leaves you. Stuff them. Move on! Wallace is dead. Long live the new coach!
:D didn't think of it like that
Captain Sensible
28 Aug 2002, 18:08
Originally posted by jim440
I would be surprised if Maylin did it. Isn't he Wallace's bum buddy?
I would expect Maylin to go with Wallace next year.
Peter Rhode would be a better option.
Actually it is Rohde. My dad told me it was Cameron Rose( You know what dads are like) and I should have worked it out.
I dont think they did 'coaching a league team101' in his course at Vic Uni.
Templeton31
28 Aug 2002, 18:13
Originally posted by Chops
Sad if you dwell on it!
Come on this is like when your girlfriend leaves you. Stuff them. Move on! Wallace is dead. Long live the new coach!
I agree 100% Chops!
You should set up a counselling stand down at the Whitten Oval. ;) :p
OldSchool
28 Aug 2002, 18:30
Originally posted by localyokel
News FLash-Wallace will NOT be coaching the team on saturday.
The work will be shared between Phil Maylin and someone else.
On aw about 5 minutes ago.
Most of the posters here on BF know that I had a low opinion of Terry especially about his so called loyalty to the club and I agree totally that he should not be in charge of the group this weekend. You are either with us or against us.
I have also copped a fair bit from the Wallace faithful since I started contributing here and I hope that they are having second thoughts about him now.
As far as I am concerned he said his good-byes yesterday and Peter Rohde will do just as good as job as Terry could.
dancingdoggie17
28 Aug 2002, 19:07
A group of 10 core players along with members of the bulldogs board ALL voted him out.
Why wouldn't they? Chris Grant looked devastated on the news, saying that he's disapointed that he said he couldn't take the group any further when there are so many young players.
If terry has lost the passion to coach them he's lost it. That includes next week!
Isdogisgood
28 Aug 2002, 21:58
They said on the news also that Wallace was furious and stormed out when he was told the news. What did he expect??!! I think Smorgo was right in saying that it was a bit naive to expect the players to be ok with him leaving and that he basically showed no confidence in the future of the playing group. It would be a bit hard to take someone saying i don't have the motivation to coach u guys but i do have the motivation to coach at another club. It has come across the whole time as though he has put his own interests way ahead of everyone elses. He's been thinking about it for about a month, without telling anyone else while making sure he has a job next year.
Captain Sensible
28 Aug 2002, 22:09
Originally posted by Templeton31
I agree 100% Chops!
You should set up a counselling stand down at the Whitten Oval. ;) :p
You could use the souvenir stall in front of the Whitten stand. The only thing is you might have to vacate it when the cheer squad want to have a sausage sizzle.
Originally posted by localyokel
You could use the souvenir stall in front of the Whitten stand. The only thing is you might have to vacate it when the cheer squad want to have a sausage sizzle.
There is too much to look forward to than to wallow in pity for a lost Wallace.
That will be $5, thanks come again!
What about?
All you need is love.
Give peace a chance.
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God the Queen, Facist Regime!
Eagle_Fan
29 Aug 2002, 03:23
I was thinking about this earlier. I can see a slight similarity between Wallace yesterday and Malthouse in 99. Although it panned out differently, Mick left us for another club with time left on his contract and it was somewhat of a shock. At the time, I was royally plssed off that the rumours kept being brought up and kept being denied even though there seemed to be more and more evidence to the contrary. I just wished that he'd admitted the truth, left the club, and let us go on with the season instead of dragging it all out. As you lot may remember he finally announced he was leaving to coach Collingwood just before the end of the season, and his last game was supposed to be the first final against you.
Anyway, I guess what i'm clumsily attempting to ask, is whether you'd have preferred the long drawn out innuendo filled melodrama (ala Wayne & co) to the more shocking but shorter lasting last few days? Is the bandAid approach less painful in the end? We did the drawn out thing with the painful (yet touching nonetheless) farewell, and f*ck it hurt, but then we are left with mostly fond memories of MM. Will Wallace be remembered for what he achieved or how he left?
You guys really don't deserve the cr@p you have to put up with, and even though it means nothing, I think you've handled everything so well.
EF :)
*Apologies for relating it back to West Coast, just a way to get my head around it I guess. (I also acknowledge the main difference that Mick had signed with the Pies, whereas Wallace hasn't comitted publicly to anyone, but does anyone here doubt he'll be coaching AFL next season?)