Dear mr wallace

[Azzleberry]

Agreed... bump

 

[krustyman]

wallaces five year plan depended on getting good players from the draft. clearly they lack quality compared to other teams and they are no better off than they were before.

they just got the wrong type of player year after year, cant kick and one paced.

 

[1980GFVideo]

Great point Astro about the difference between quiting and making a decision for the Richmond football club over yourself.

Sounds alot better to say 'I wont quit' than to say that I have no intention of losing a cent from my five year contract even if it means the club can start preparing for next season.

The point made by Matthews that if you are not going to be there next year then you might aswell move on is a good one.

Having said that, I have no faith in anyone who would walk in now.

I would bring in Sheeds for the rest of the year just for the novelty. There is nothing else to look forward to.

 

[rfctigerarmy]

You can not be taken serious as a coach if your forward line, when a game is up for grabs is, Tambling, JON, Edwards,Nahas and Schulz.

You can't be serious, he is coaching to lose matches

Thing is, it wasn't! Schulz was playing loose in defence... LOL. You have to laugh.

 

[astro_toby]

Having said that, I have no faith in anyone who would walk in now.

I would bring in Sheeds for the rest of the year just for the novelty. There is nothing else to look forward to.

i have no problem with that either - as a caretaker, it would be interesting to see if even Sheedy can make sense of the disaster which is our current playing list.

 

[gaelictiogar]

What the OP said !!

 

[dothebowdenshuffle]

To Mr Wallace,

Unfortunately i no longer feel you are the right person to be coach of the Richmond Football Club. Quite clearly the players did play for you today, as they would not have attacked the ball with the intensity they did today.

The problem was, as the coach and master of this team - YOU have let them down. You had this team working so hard to provide for a forward line which had the worse structure i have ever seen in nearly 10 years. It is either your structure, your insructions, your teachings or all of the above that has caused this.

Sometimes in life it is not about "Quitting" or "not seeing something through" that is important - It is doing what you know is right.

You know that you have no answer to making this side perform the way you would like them to.

You know that you have not or will not fulfill on your promise of how this team will perform.

It is clear as the look on your face while the game rolls on that you know all of these things are true.

So it's not a matter of "quitting" - but putting the team before yourself and doing what is right for your team.

Please step down so we can move on as easily and quickly as possible. I don't want their to be articles or radio feedback slamming our coach, our side and the speculation of when you will be sacked and who will replace you when that moment ultimately comes - which we all know will happen sooner than later.

This season and the past 5 you have been involved in have been disappointing enough as it is - please let us supporters move on from it as quickly and smoothly as possible.

Many Thanks


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ASTRO-TOBY

couldn't agree more. it's not just the fact that we are losing but how we are losing, endeavour is OK, but forward structure is a joke. can't believe we have become this pathetic this fast. about 4 wins down on where i thought we'd be at this point of season.

 

[GhostofJimJess]

I want nobody who was in any way involved in that managerial debacle in the coaches box yesterday allowed anywhere near the helm of our club.

Campbell, King, Rawlings or Royal. If none of those four could've seen what was plainly obvious to those of us watching what was happening out there on the ground, from about the 10-minute mark of the second quarter until the 25-minute mark of the final quarter, then they are either not smart enough or not forceful enough to take charge of our playing list, even temporarily.

They were all essentially accomplices to the coaching catastrophe that unfolded yesterday.

If Morton needed to be dropped, fair enough. I can live with that - it has a precedent over the last 12 months or so with far more credentialled players like Bowden, Pettifer, Simmonds and McMahon copping the axe. And if they wanted to reinforce that point by not even re-naming Morton when his apparent replacement Nathan Brown didn't come up, and opt for Schulz instead, then fair enough too. Schulz deserved a chance after a couple of bags in the Two's, and with Richo gone the extra height might have been useful anyway.

But to be without Brown, Morton AND Richardson, and then refuse to play Schulz as a key position forward for any more than a quarter of the game, even though the only other marking options Riewoldt and Simmonds were clearly struggling, was positively disastrous.

There we were, 20 points down ten minutes into the last quarter. We'd just had Graham hobble off the ground so Simmonds was forced into the midfield, even more depleting our forward marking options, leaving us with a forward line resembling Nahas, Tambling, Edawrds, Riewoldt and JON. And I look up to see Schulz playing loose on the defensive side of the wing! For ****'s sake!

And what instruction is it that made us transfer the ball clockwise from the defensive goal square time after time, despite the fact that Brisbane had woken up to it by about the 5 minute mark of the second quarter, and forced us to go back sideways before we'd even cleared defensive fifty? There were times when our defender with the ball - Newman, McGuane, Moore or Bowden - didn't even look right from the defensive goal square! They were clearly under instruction to bring it out of defense clockside. Surely no footballer playing under his own intuition could be that stupid so often.

One thing is for sure, though. We can never be accused of being a team of downhill skiiers. In fact, we manage to traverse the "run" from one extreme side of the ground to the other extreme every single time.

 

[astro_toby]

I want nobody who was in any way involved in that managerial debacle in the coaches box yesterday allowed anywhere near the helm of our club.

Campbell, King, Rawlings or Royal. If none of those four could've seen what was plainly obvious to those of us watching what was happening out there on the ground, from about the 10-minute mark of the second quarter until the 25-minute mark of the final quarter, then they are either not smart enough or not forceful enough to take charge of our playing list, even temporarily.

They were all essentially accomplices to the coaching catastrophe that unfolded yesterday.

If Morton needed to be dropped, fair enough. I can live with that - it has a precedent over the last 12 months or so with far more credentialled players like Bowden, Pettifer, Simmonds and McMahon copping the axe. And if they wanted to reinforce that point by not even re-naming Morton when his apparent replacement Nathan Brown didn't come up, and opt for Schulz instead, then fair enough too. Schulz deserved a chance after a couple of bags in the Two's, and with Richo gone the extra height might have been useful anyway.

But to be without Brown, Morton AND Richardson, and then refuse to play Schulz as a key position forward for any more than a quarter of the game, even though the only other marking options Riewoldt and Simmonds were clearly struggling, was positively disastrous.

There we were, 20 points down ten minutes into the last quarter. We'd just had Graham hobble off the ground so Simmonds was forced into the midfield, even more depleting our forward marking options, leaving us with a forward line resembling Nahas, Tambling, Edawrds, Riewoldt and JON. And I look up to see Schulz playing loose on the defensive side of the wing! For ****'s sake!

And what instruction is it that made us transfer the ball clockwise from the defensive goal square time after time, despite the fact that Brisbane had woken up to it by about the 5 minute mark of the second quarter, and forced us to go back sideways before we'd even cleared defensive fifty? There were times when our defender with the ball - Newman, McGuane, Moore or Bowden - didn't even look right from the defensive goal square! They were clearly under instruction to bring it out of defense clockside. Surely no footballer playing under his own intuition could be that stupid so often.

One thing is for sure, though. We can never be accused of being a team of downhill skiiers. In fact, we manage to traverse the "run" from one extreme side of the ground to the other extreme every single time.

excellent sum up of the stupidity of yesterday - you should write for the Hearld Sun or something.

It makes me sick to see this club being passed by Fremantle, Essendon, Carlton, Brisbane, West Coast and (based on the fact they beat us) - Melbourne.

We as supporters deserve better. They cried out for patience in the rebuilding, we gave them 5 years of it and they still churned out the same shit.

Please listen to the members Terry and move on so we can try and regain hope. If they don't react soon - the RFC will lose more money than Terry's contract is worth in memberships next year

 

[smasha]

I want nobody who was in any way involved in that managerial debacle in the coaches box yesterday allowed anywhere near the helm of our club.

Campbell, King, Rawlings or Royal. If none of those four could've seen what was plainly obvious to those of us watching what was happening out there on the ground, from about the 10-minute mark of the second quarter until the 25-minute mark of the final quarter, then they are either not smart enough or not forceful enough to take charge of our playing list, even temporarily.

They were all essentially accomplices to the coaching catastrophe that unfolded yesterday.

If Morton needed to be dropped, fair enough. I can live with that - it has a precedent over the last 12 months or so with far more credentialled players like Bowden, Pettifer, Simmonds and McMahon copping the axe. And if they wanted to reinforce that point by not even re-naming Morton when his apparent replacement Nathan Brown didn't come up, and opt for Schulz instead, then fair enough too. Schulz deserved a chance after a couple of bags in the Two's, and with Richo gone the extra height might have been useful anyway.

But to be without Brown, Morton AND Richardson, and then refuse to play Schulz as a key position forward for any more than a quarter of the game, even though the only other marking options Riewoldt and Simmonds were clearly struggling, was positively disastrous.

There we were, 20 points down ten minutes into the last quarter. We'd just had Graham hobble off the ground so Simmonds was forced into the midfield, even more depleting our forward marking options, leaving us with a forward line resembling Nahas, Tambling, Edawrds, Riewoldt and JON. And I look up to see Schulz playing loose on the defensive side of the wing! For ****'s sake!

And what instruction is it that made us transfer the ball clockwise from the defensive goal square time after time, despite the fact that Brisbane had woken up to it by about the 5 minute mark of the second quarter, and forced us to go back sideways before we'd even cleared defensive fifty? There were times when our defender with the ball - Newman, McGuane, Moore or Bowden - didn't even look right from the defensive goal square! They were clearly under instruction to bring it out of defense clockside. Surely no footballer playing under his own intuition could be that stupid so often.

One thing is for sure, though. We can never be accused of being a team of downhill skiiers. In fact, we manage to traverse the "run" from one extreme side of the ground to the other extreme every single time.

What a beautifully put post.

Absolutely spot on.

 

[IDGAF]

I`m not sure its driven by the coach to tell you the truth ...

I suspect a big part of the reason that we are kicking backwards and along the boundary line to unmarked players is that we are so devoid of confidence in our own skills to try and pick our way through a zone with precision.

We know if we try and spot blokes up around the middle who are reletively "hot" they will just f... it up ..... hence the ring-a-ringa rosy stuff . which inevitably breaks down at half forward because when you don`t have the confidence and skill to hit a bloke lace out you do one of two things ... 1 is to miss the target and 2 ... bomb away in hope and when you have a fleet of short people thats really going to work for you

We were so inept in the second half yesterday it wasn`t funny.

Walk now Terry please for the good of all

 

[Bojangles17]

I`m not sure its driven by the coach to tell you the truth ...

I suspect a big part of the reason that we are kicking backwards and along the boundary line to unmarked players is that we are so devoid of confidence in our own skills to try and pick our way through a zone with precision.

We know if we try and spot blokes up around the middle who are reletively "hot" they will just f... it up ..... hence the ring-a-ringa rosy stuff . which inevitably breaks down at half forward because when you don`t have the confidence and skill to hit a bloke lace out you do one of two things ... 1 is to miss the target and 2 ... bomb away in hope and when you have a fleet of short people thats really going to work for you

We were so inept in the second half yesterday it wasn`t funny.

Walk now Terry please for the good of all

yep thats about 65% right..the other 35% is the auskick style cohesion of our forward line....let me hypothesise and put Brown and Bradshaw in our front half and imagine