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Having witnessed again the RFC revert back to its diseased way of playing today at the 'G' while watching the second half, I started to think about the ethos that permeates the Team.
I thought, if Wallace doesn't ask the players to play the way they played in the second half, then as Leader of the Playing List what influence does he have?
If Terry doesn't ask the players to go short, sideways, backwards, handle ball to a teammate 2 feet away, what does he do when he sees it?
The answer: He tolerates it. In other words, he lets it continue without reigning it in, without penalizing the player, without halting the cancer in its tracks.
In a nutshell, watching the RFC Senior Team under the Terry tutelage so far, one can only come to one conclusion...
Terry Wallace TOLERATES the LAZY POSSESSION.
In fact he turns a blind eye to it!
The cheating possession. The possession-getter that furthers the individual in the eye of Wallace, yet forgets about the team as a unit that wants to move forward, to gain a result, to achieve, to win.
The team we have now is a team molded by Wallace that puts a positive spin on all flaws and individual selfishness.
Under Wallace, the effort is not in achieving, it is in the process. And letting the world know about it.
Under Wallace it's about being clever with an answer for everything.
It's not about proactive movement upfield to an end result...the goals.
It's about the journey for Wallace.
Our journey under this coach has cost us 4/5 years.
We never knew Wallace's plan was for a journey as the end result.
We thought we would have results. Weren't we fooled?
I smelt a rat early, with his weird dropping and constant bringing back of players, his persistence with average players, his tendency to breed a mosquito fleet (again, and example of the process being the journey for Wallace....not grabbing a big central forward, but carriers to no big forwards at all),
our lack of conditioning, our lack of passion, our lack of skill enforcement, lazy one arm tackling being allowed and Wallace's tolerance of players not 'gut running' and running hard to space, and Wallace's preference for playing 'pets' in the side, when they certainly warranted being dropped. All these were there in the early years of his tenure. Some got it.
Wallace's latest gem gives us another insight into his flawed coaching philosophy....
The coach said he had spoken to the players and put them on notice regarding their positions after what Wallace called a lack of “respect for the ball”.
"The ball is gold in the game, and if you give up gold you're not likely to get it back in a hurry”, he said.
The ball is part of the game Terry, like your teammates, the oval, the umpires, your jumper, your boots, your shorts. We need to respect all these things equally.
Terry, it's the GOALS that are GOLD in the game.
Once you understand that, then maybe, just maybe, all the LAZY, CHEATING POSSESSION GETTERS in our side, will point their asses that way and ALWAYS drive the ball in that direction.
We can only win matches with goals. Along the ground, in the air.
If the umpires and the AFL tomorrow decide to use a watermelon instead of a ball, then the GOALS would still be GOLD in the game, and getting that watermelon OFTEN and as many times THROUGH THE GOALS to beat our opponents would be the objective.
It's obvious that Wallace has missed the whole idea of our great game.
Sad for him, sadder for us.
Be patient Richmond Realists, the days of the 'process' versus 'results' confused Basketball Coach are nearly over.
I thought, if Wallace doesn't ask the players to play the way they played in the second half, then as Leader of the Playing List what influence does he have?
If Terry doesn't ask the players to go short, sideways, backwards, handle ball to a teammate 2 feet away, what does he do when he sees it?
The answer: He tolerates it. In other words, he lets it continue without reigning it in, without penalizing the player, without halting the cancer in its tracks.
In a nutshell, watching the RFC Senior Team under the Terry tutelage so far, one can only come to one conclusion...
Terry Wallace TOLERATES the LAZY POSSESSION.
In fact he turns a blind eye to it!
The cheating possession. The possession-getter that furthers the individual in the eye of Wallace, yet forgets about the team as a unit that wants to move forward, to gain a result, to achieve, to win.
The team we have now is a team molded by Wallace that puts a positive spin on all flaws and individual selfishness.
Under Wallace, the effort is not in achieving, it is in the process. And letting the world know about it.
Under Wallace it's about being clever with an answer for everything.
It's not about proactive movement upfield to an end result...the goals.
It's about the journey for Wallace.
Our journey under this coach has cost us 4/5 years.
We never knew Wallace's plan was for a journey as the end result.
We thought we would have results. Weren't we fooled?
I smelt a rat early, with his weird dropping and constant bringing back of players, his persistence with average players, his tendency to breed a mosquito fleet (again, and example of the process being the journey for Wallace....not grabbing a big central forward, but carriers to no big forwards at all),
our lack of conditioning, our lack of passion, our lack of skill enforcement, lazy one arm tackling being allowed and Wallace's tolerance of players not 'gut running' and running hard to space, and Wallace's preference for playing 'pets' in the side, when they certainly warranted being dropped. All these were there in the early years of his tenure. Some got it.
Wallace's latest gem gives us another insight into his flawed coaching philosophy....
The coach said he had spoken to the players and put them on notice regarding their positions after what Wallace called a lack of “respect for the ball”.
"The ball is gold in the game, and if you give up gold you're not likely to get it back in a hurry”, he said.
The ball is part of the game Terry, like your teammates, the oval, the umpires, your jumper, your boots, your shorts. We need to respect all these things equally.
Terry, it's the GOALS that are GOLD in the game.
Once you understand that, then maybe, just maybe, all the LAZY, CHEATING POSSESSION GETTERS in our side, will point their asses that way and ALWAYS drive the ball in that direction.
We can only win matches with goals. Along the ground, in the air.
If the umpires and the AFL tomorrow decide to use a watermelon instead of a ball, then the GOALS would still be GOLD in the game, and getting that watermelon OFTEN and as many times THROUGH THE GOALS to beat our opponents would be the objective.
It's obvious that Wallace has missed the whole idea of our great game.
Sad for him, sadder for us.
Be patient Richmond Realists, the days of the 'process' versus 'results' confused Basketball Coach are nearly over.
