First half 'unacceptable': Wallace

[Croat tiger]

First half 'unacceptable': Wallace
RSSFont downFont largerPrintBy Michael Rogers
5:00 PM Sun 01 June, 2008


RICHMOND coach Terry Wallace has labelled the Sydney Swans the best team his Tigers have played this year in the wake of an 82-point loss at the SCG.

After six weeks of football that yielded two wins, a draw against the red-hot Western Bulldogs and spirited showings against pacesetters Hawthorn and Geelong, the Tigers were entitled to consider themselves a chance.

But their optimism was blown away by two quarters of clinical football from the in-form Swans.

“It couldn’t be more disappointing. We came up here really keen to see if we could get our season really alive. We thought we’d taken some real strides forward (so) to just be clinically taken apart like we were in the first half was unacceptable,” Wallace said.

After watching his players walk to the quarter-time huddle in a state of shock following the Swans’ seven-goal first term, Wallace said he feared Sunday’s game could get “extremely ugly” for his side.

But he said the club would take some heart from an improved second-half performance, led by a strong game from classy midfielder Brett Deledio.

The Tigers were plagued by handling errors throughout the game, which were compounded by their apparent inability to hold their feet on a slippery SCG surface.

It didn’t go unnoticed by Wallace, who suspected the wrong choice of boots was to blame for several players.

“As a professional athlete, you have a responsibility to go out, check the ground surface and make the decision on what’s the right footwear to wear on any given day,” he said.

“We had half a dozen blokes that clearly didn’t wear the right footwear and we’ll discuss that during the week, because that’s unacceptable.”

Wallace said it was possible some of the Richmond players had overplayed the importance of the game in their preparation and he assured supporters that the issues arising from the massive loss would be addressed before next Saturday’s game against Adelaide.

“We’re in front of our home supporters in six days’ time, and clearly we want to show them what we’ve done in a seven-week period, not what we did over an hour of football today,” he said.

“We need to show our supporters that we’re better than what we showed today.”

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[Coach_Required]

Meh ... Who cares Wallace

Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah

 

[Drunken Wookie]

Yeah, more nothing comments, this weeks excuse: poor footwear choices. Why he can't come out and say exactly where he thought we went wrong and how we'll rectify it I don't know.

 

[Sausage roll]

First half?

What a losers mentality-the whole thing was unacceptable

 

[Croat tiger]

Yeah, more nothing comments, this weeks excuse: poor footwear choices.

Well if he was a good professional coach he would have made sure the players were wearing th right type of boots before they even played.Don't just handball the blame to players terry that's very weak in my book.

 

[_RT_]

Translation:
We thought we were a chance and have just been shown to be nowhere near it. Thankful we put in that performance at the SCG instead of the MCG otherwise I would have not made it out of the carpark alive, just hoping to hell we don't play like that again next week when we are at the MCG. Thank God my contract has 18 months to go and I know the club has money tied up in other things or another performance like that could see me asking the Herald Sun for a full time job.

 

[Radz]

Terry isn't a under 10's father. He doesn't need to check the players boots, the players are responsible for all that.

We ____ed up our game plan, due to the ugly, clogging game Sydney play.

That isn't Terry's fault, it's the players fault.

 

[the ranger]

Well if he was a good professional coach he would have made sure the players were wearing th right type of boots before they even played.Don't just handball the blame to players terry that's very weak in my book.

Exactly what I was thinking. It should have been mentioned by coaching staff that they had to make sure they were wearing appropriate boots. Embarrassingly unprofessional coaching.

 

[ssfc0203]

Terry isn't a under 10's father. He doesn't need to check the players boots, the players are responsible for all that.

We ____ed up our game plan, due to the ugly, clogging game Sydney play.

That isn't Terry's fault, it's the players fault.

Ugly and clogging game play?

 

[Madtiger2006]

Well if he was a good professional coach he would have made sure the players were wearing th right type of boots before they even played.Don't just handball the blame to players terry that's very weak in my book.

That's not the coaches job. Does the coach have to wipe the players asses after going to the toilet too?

 

[Croat tiger]

That's not the coaches job. Does the coach have to wipe the players asses after going to the toilet too?

I think if you're professional coach these days it needs to be because you need every advantage you can get,checking weather conditions and making sure the players have the right boots on is not going to kill coaches afterall he's making about 800k a year isn't he?

 

[HBK619]

FFS why can't our supporters just take a loss as it was, we always come out with blades drawn, we haven't won up in Sydney for years, they know how to play that ground extremley well, the conditions were shithouse and we lost, onto next week at the G.

BTW should Terry come out and say anything other than what he does/has, then he would be getting a barage for calling his players shit, weak, etc.

Let's let him say what he does in front of the media and just trust that he will have given them a ____ing barage in the rooms.

 

[boodsyboy]

Ugly and clogging game play?

No I thought Sydney played great footy today supported each other well they dont panic sadly they are everything we are not sydney were far too good for us today but its not the end of the world.

 

[Tigerland]

That's not the coaches job. Does the coach have to wipe the players asses after going to the toilet too?

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After today's efforts and decision making - I can't answer that question confidently when talking about a few of the twits wearing the jumper.

Take White for example - like how he goes hard - but when he runs behinD a dosile ruckman who doesn't like to kick you'd reckon he'd be watching the player with the ball and not Auntie Joyce in the crowd.
Pattison handballs to him and white runs past - turover.
Pathetic and inexcusable.

 

[ssfc0203]

No I thought Sydney played great footy today supported each other well they dont panic sadly they are everything we are not sydney were far too good for us today but its not the end of the world.

That's what I thought too. Don't get down on one game though, before this you were travelling along pretty well.

 

[nico]

Terry isn't a under 10's father. He doesn't need to check the players boots, the players are responsible for all that.

We ____ed up our game plan, due to the ugly, clogging game Sydney play.

That isn't Terry's fault, it's the players fault.

I would have thought that was clean, highly skilled, hard running and accountable football.

 

[sante]

_______________________________________

After today's efforts and decision making - I can't answer that question confidently when talking about a few of the twits wearing the jumper.

Take White for example - like how he goes hard - but when he runs behinD a dosile ruckman who doesn't like to kick you'd reckon he'd be watching the player with the ball and not Auntie Joyce in the crowd.
Pattison handballs to him and white runs past - turover.
Pathetic and inexcusable.

Who handpasses to someone who didn't call for it?

 

[itsintheblood]

First half 'unacceptable': Wallace
RSSFont downFont largerPrintBy Michael Rogers
5:00 PM Sun 01 June, 2008


RICHMOND coach Terry Wallace has labelled the Sydney Swans the best team his Tigers have played this year in the wake of an 82-point loss at the SCG.

After six weeks of football that yielded two wins, a draw against the red-hot Western Bulldogs and spirited showings against pacesetters Hawthorn and Geelong, the Tigers were entitled to consider themselves a chance.

But their optimism was blown away by two quarters of clinical football from the in-form Swans.

“It couldn’t be more disappointing. We came up here really keen to see if we could get our season really alive. We thought we’d taken some real strides forward (so) to just be clinically taken apart like we were in the first half was unacceptable,” Wallace said.

After watching his players walk to the quarter-time huddle in a state of shock following the Swans’ seven-goal first term, Wallace said he feared Sunday’s game could get “extremely ugly” for his side.

But he said the club would take some heart from an improved second-half performance, led by a strong game from classy midfielder Brett Deledio.

The Tigers were plagued by handling errors throughout the game, which were compounded by their apparent inability to hold their feet on a slippery SCG surface.

It didn’t go unnoticed by Wallace, who suspected the wrong choice of boots was to blame for several players.

“As a professional athlete, you have a responsibility to go out, check the ground surface and make the decision on what’s the right footwear to wear on any given day,” he said.

“We had half a dozen blokes that clearly didn’t wear the right footwear and we’ll discuss that during the week, because that’s unacceptable.”

Wallace said it was possible some of the Richmond players had overplayed the importance of the game in their preparation and he assured supporters that the issues arising from the massive loss would be addressed before next Saturday’s game against Adelaide.

“We’re in front of our home supporters in six days’ time, and clearly we want to show them what we’ve done in a seven-week period, not what we did over an hour of football today,” he said.

“We need to show our supporters that we’re better than what we showed today.”

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This just doesnt make sense. Sure to god the players these days should be carrying 2 sets of boots to suit the conditions. As soon as the rain comes down they should come off and change them. With 100 rotations these days there's ample opportunity. Just poor excuses and poor management..


No more excuses plough. You have 12 weeks to save your career.

 

[SKOULIKI]

No excuse, I gave my bit, but if you had to make an excuse the only one I can think of is that they put money on Sydney to win by a big margin!

ching ching $$$

 

[1980]

Unacceptable that you brought back Pettifer and Bowden and we are right back to getting flogged

So drop them against the Crows so we can get our season back on track.

 

[Tigerland]

Who handpasses to someone who didn't call for it?

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So you're saying he's in his right to stroll past and not watch the player with the ball.
Get a clue will ya.
This isn't under 16's - although the first half seemed like it.

 

[deliberate!!]

Still there are some of you guys that refuse to believe that Wallace can't coach, and that the responsibility of a club's success overall lies solely with the coach.
Smell the roses, another sign post of season 2008 shows we can't match it with any team that can actually play.

 

[Croat tiger]

Still there are some of you guys that refuse to believe that Wallace can't coach, and that the responsibility of a club's success overall lies solely with the coach.
Smell the roses, another sign post of season 2008 shows we can't match it with any team that can actually play.

Well I'm convinced wallace is a used car salesman but having said that he is better than frawley but he's not cheap.I think we need to plan better for next coach the last two have been disasters so far.

 

[Jim Jess's Jockstrap]

so what responbility does the coaching staff take for our pathetic effort?

 

[itsintheblood]

so what responbility does the coaching staff take for our pathetic effort?

They blamed the boots. Next week it will be the shorts.