This has actually been handled relatively well

[Harvey Leadpipe]

Unlike our previous witch-hunt, finger-pointing, manure-dropping, public-outcrying reactions, I think the RFC have actually handled an administrative issue pretty well. It was obvious from about Round 3 what Terry's fate would be at the RFC, and the loss to Melbourne definitely sealed it. But to the club's and Terry's credit, they did not bow to the media push to over-react to the situation, have stuck to their plan and seen it through. Although disappointing, the tone of Terry's departure is viewed as amicable, with respect shown on both sides. This bodes well for 2 reasons;

1. Any prospective coach may now view the club as having some sort of solidarity behind it, not just jumping at shadows everytime some halfwit from the media prints a waste of sheet space, and
2. The club starts looking bigger than individuals themselves.

I agreed with Terry's comments that although we've yet to see any improvement in results, I do think that the next coach is getting handed a list in a better position than when he took over. Although we've made a few draft blunders, not every pick will be a winner, but there is a base formed from which to work from. As a benchmark, I have believed for years that we would not be a strong club until Deledio is 28-29. The kids there now still have a lot of development left in them, and the old hacks won't be there much longer.

All in all, with the disaster of the year still rolling along, this fateful event has been handled much better than I expected.....just waiting to see how they'll handle the care-taker on future coach appointments!!!

 

[the ranger]

Agreed. With the shocking on-field performances and the savage attacks from the media, the club couldn't have handled this any better IMO.

 

[thecotch]

Looks like the addition of craig cameron has been a wise investment. Seems really cool under pressure and doesn't get bullied into rash decisions. March has been ok too under the circumstances.

 

[Bojangles17]

yes, welcome back HL, I have said as much that the board have held their nerve , much to the disdain of trigger happy ferals such as I at times but to their credit they seem to be taking a measured approach to this...even separating the news of caretaker from yesterdays announcement is GOLD...means Tigers are on back page once again...**** me will any other Melb club get a look in on the publicity count, it must be giving them the shits big time

 

[True Thylacine]

Good to see you back Harv! I share your sentiments entirely mate and this proves we are beginning a cultural turn around, slowly but surely. Must give a prospective coach some level of comfort to know they will be managed with dignity and a mutual respect. Hopefully the markets are treating you in a more kindly fashion in recent weeks. My early retirement hopes have been pillaged beyond recognition!

 

[Ruanaidh]

Until Wallace does a 'tell-all' story for his media mates.

 

[froars]

The club should be able to handle a sacking by now, they've had plenty of practice at it

All focus now on Free and his report and making sure the next coach gets everything Wallace didn't get.

Recruiting
Development
The backing of everyone at the club including coteries et al

I don't want any excuses now, just results.

Never happen, but I want 'em

 

[smasha]

Until Wallace does a 'tell-all' story for his media mates.

Herald Scum trying to get an interview from Wallaces wife.

That paper has to go.

 

[IDGAF]

Welcome back Harvey Leadpipe ... where out thou been ? ... Don`t say honeymoon or i will very miffed at not getting a guernsey .

I am still mulling over my thoughts of his final execution ... I do lean towards yesterday being handled well , but all in all we have to stop leaking like a f..kin sieve every time the shit is going and maintain some solidarity and keep our dirty laundry in house

I have this queezy feeling in the pit of my stomach that Terry Wallace ... being the master of painting himself in a good light ... came out smelling like frigging roses , when in fact in 5 years he achieve absolutely f..k all and has gotten off scott free in a lot of ways .

Painted himself very nicely for any future endeavours ...

His apology to the Buldogs ...WTF did that have to do with anything

I feel that yesterday became a press conference for the moving on of Terry Wallace and the next chapter in his life as opposed to the Sacking of Terry Wallace who ultimately failed this club as a coach after much fanfare and promise .

Time this club grew some balls and as Froars said , all eyes on Free ...

 

[tugga]

Welcome back Harvey Leadpipe ... where out thou been ? ... Don`t say honeymoon or i will very miffed at not getting a guernsey .

I am still mulling over my thoughts of his final execution ... I do lean towards yesterday being handled well , but all in all we have to stop leaking like a f..kin sieve every time the shit is going and maintain some solidarity and keep our dirty laundry in house

I have this queezy feeling in the pit of my stomach that Terry Wallace ... being the master of painting himself in a good light ... came out smelling like frigging roses , when in fact in 5 years he achieve absolutely f..k all and has gotten off scott free in a lot of ways .

Painted himself very nicely for any future endeavours ...

His apology to the Buldogs ...WTF did that have to do with anything

I feel that yesterday became a press conference for the moving on of Terry Wallace and the next chapter in his life as opposed to the Sacking of Terry Wallace who ultimately failed this club as a coach after much fanfare and promise .

Time this club grew some balls and as Froars said , all eyes on Free ...

Not quite sure what you wanted from the presser Iddy?
You can't have your cake and eat it.
The whole season has been about Wallace. Whether Wallace brought that upon himself or the media made it into that. probably both.
But yesterday was always going to be about Wallace. It was about moving on. Mainly him moving on.
What did you want us to do? Announce that we'd sacked him and then have the media circus at our throats again? yesterday was bloodless for once. No blood on any knives for anyone to see. Just smiles. Whether they were fake smiles I don't care. The fact was that all the stories today...not one of them was bagging the way we handled it.
It will be about the club on Saturday when we announce a caretaker and Terry will be forgotten about.

 

[IDGAF]

Not quite sure what you wanted from the presser Iddy?
You can't have your cake and eat it.
The whole season has been about Wallace. Whether Wallace brought that upon himself or the media made it into that. probably both.
But yesterday was always going to be about Wallace. It was about moving on. Mainly him moving on.
What did you want us to do? Announce that we'd sacked him and then have the media circus at our throats again? yesterday was bloodless for once. No blood on any knives for anyone to see. Just smiles. Whether they were fake smiles I don't care. The fact was that all the stories today...not one of them was bagging the way we handled it.
It will be about the club on Saturday when we announce a caretaker and Terry will be forgotten about.

yes ... yes ... lovely little piece of theatre . up there with Miss Saigon . We did handle it better than our other myriad of sackings .

... its hard to put into words ... it was as if he triumphed over the evil that is punt rd.

at the end of the day he promised the world and delivered an Atlas ... should not be forgotten amongst all the rhetoric

 

[Harvey Leadpipe]

Been here at my desk, but yeah, these markets have meant more time just purveying the boards from time to time rather than contributing of late. The recent rebound in prices has seen the waters calm a little, so will be back a little more in between scouring the inter-web for nasty ladies, and sleazing on the new hottie in the fixed interest team.

Sure they've had plenty of sackings froars, but apart from Lethal leaving the Lions, no coaches departure goes without it's fair share of controversy. Of course we want results, goes without saying, but sanity has to prevail to try and identify what is good for the long term benefit of the club. I'm not sold that this is the turning point either, a lot of water has to go under the bridge before we can get a feel if the club is operating under a different mindset, rather than the "eat-our-own" reputation provides.

However, this event provided the perfect platform to justify everyone's perception that we are a basket case. Sure, Wallace talked up his own book and probably always has his own interests above everything else. Sure, it is a glorified sacking of the coach, AGAIN. Sure, our on field results have been awful this year. Enough negatives to warrant any blood-spilling.........but it didn't.

My inital thought on this one instance is that we finally looked somewhat professional in the handling of an administrative issue. And there are more of these off-field decisions and announcements to take place in the near future. With a bit of luck the club has seen the error in its ways, and will approach these issues with the professionalism they require. Making calm, thought-out, rational decsions is a blueprint to generating success. The benchmark has been set, I will be waiting with interest the next chapter of the RFC soap-opera.

 

[Sausage roll]

Unlike our previous witch-hunt, finger-pointing, manure-dropping, public-outcrying reactions, I think the RFC have actually handled an administrative issue pretty well. It was obvious from about Round 3 what Terry's fate would be at the RFC, and the loss to Melbourne definitely sealed it. But to the club's and Terry's credit, they did not bow to the media push to over-react to the situation, have stuck to their plan and seen it through. Although disappointing, the tone of Terry's departure is viewed as amicable, with respect shown on both sides. This bodes well for 2 reasons;

1. Any prospective coach may now view the club as having some sort of solidarity behind it, not just jumping at shadows everytime some halfwit from the media prints a waste of sheet space, and
2. The club starts looking bigger than individuals themselves.

I agreed with Terry's comments that although we've yet to see any improvement in results, I do think that the next coach is getting handed a list in a better position than when he took over. Although we've made a few draft blunders, not every pick will be a winner, but there is a base formed from which to work from. As a benchmark, I have believed for years that we would not be a strong club until Deledio is 28-29. The kids there now still have a lot of development left in them, and the old hacks won't be there much longer.

All in all, with the disaster of the year still rolling along, this fateful event has been handled much better than I expected.....just waiting to see how they'll handle the care-taker on future coach appointments!!!

Wow!

AFTER NEARLY FIVE YEARS AND $3 MILLIONS DOLLARS, ONE WOULD HAVE HOPED HE LEFT THE PLACE BETTER THAN HE FOUND IT!

tHE GUY IS A DISGRACE AND SO IS jon, HUGHES, MEYER ETC...WHAT A DISASTER.

wHO ACTUALLY CHOSE THESE PLAYERS??

 

[Bojangles17]

Welcome back Harvey Leadpipe ... where out thou been ? ... Don`t say honeymoon or i will very miffed at not getting a guernsey .

I am still mulling over my thoughts of his final execution ... I do lean towards yesterday being handled well , but all in all we have to stop leaking like a f..kin sieve every time the shit is going and maintain some solidarity and keep our dirty laundry in house

I have this queezy feeling in the pit of my stomach that Terry Wallace ... being the master of painting himself in a good light ... came out smelling like frigging roses , when in fact in 5 years he achieve absolutely f..k all and has gotten off scott free in a lot of ways .

Painted himself very nicely for any future endeavours ...

His apology to the Buldogs ...WTF did that have to do with anything

I feel that yesterday became a press conference for the moving on of Terry Wallace and the next chapter in his life as opposed to the Sacking of Terry Wallace who ultimately failed this club as a coach after much fanfare and promise .

Time this club grew some balls and as Froars said , all eyes on Free ...

i do see where your coming from Idy, i was actually yawning at the lovefest and I question the appropriatness of mentioning the WB...err this is TIGERLAND...In any case glad they didnt mention the immediate successor, **** him and be done with , on with business

 

[telsor]

Wow!

AFTER NEARLY FIVE YEARS AND $3 MILLIONS DOLLARS, ONE WOULD HAVE HOPED HE LEFT THE PLACE BETTER THAN HE FOUND IT!

tHE GUY IS A DISGRACE AND SO IS jon, HUGHES, MEYER ETC...WHAT A DISASTER.

wHO ACTUALLY CHOSE THESE PLAYERS??

Someone who can use Caps-lock correctly I'd guess.

 

[YellowandBlackBlood]

Wow!

AFTER NEARLY FIVE YEARS AND $3 MILLIONS DOLLARS, ONE WOULD HAVE HOPED HE LEFT THE PLACE BETTER THAN HE FOUND IT!

tHE GUY IS A DISGRACE AND SO IS jon, HUGHES, MEYER ETC...WHAT A DISASTER.

wHO ACTUALLY CHOSE THESE PLAYERS??

Yawn!

Please come out with something we haven't heard from you a thousand times before SR. I think we all get the drift now...

 

[Bojangles17]

yes ... yes ... lovely little piece of theatre . up there with Miss Saigon . We did handle it better than our other myriad of sackings .

... its hard to put into words ... it was as if he triumphed over the evil that is punt rd.

at the end of the day he promised the world and delivered an Atlas ... should not be forgotten amongst all the rhetoric

perhaps March should have swiftly interjected when that tiresome tripe about the bulldogs spewed from his gob....the more I think of it, was bloody extraordinary...can you imagine when John Howard handed over the reigns he took the opportunity to say oh, yeah whoops, sorry about the children overboard and all that detention centre stuff...This is ****en TIGERLAND not a VOX POP...i couldn't give a rats tossbag about the bulldogs other than kicking the **** thru them on FRI night...There should never be another club mentioned in a tigers presser other than our immediate opponent...It should have been censored no question

 

[IDGAF]

perhaps March should have swiftly interjected when that tiresome tripe about the bulldogs spewed from his gob....the more I think of it, was bloody extraordinary...can you imagine when John Howard handed over the reigns he took the opportunity to say oh, yeah whoops, sorry about the children overboard and all that detention centre stuff...This is ****en TIGERLAND not a VOX POP...i couldn't give a rats tossbag about the bulldogs other than kicking the **** thru them on FRI night...There should never be another club mentioned in a tigers presser other than our immediate opponent...It should have been censored no question

yeah... the more i think about it the more i`m gob-smacked .

it was like ...."while i have your attention there are a few more things i want to talk about"

 

[1980]

yes ... yes ... lovely little piece of theatre . up there with Miss Saigon . We did handle it better than our other myriad of sackings .

... its hard to put into words ... it was as if he triumphed over the evil that is punt rd.

at the end of the day he promised the world and delivered an Atlas ... should not be forgotten amongst all the rhetoric

Nice analogy. We were auditioning for a new coach, he was auditioning for a new job.

But HL is right. Spilling blood for the sake of appeasing the feral supporters scares away talented coaches.

 

[1980]

perhaps March should have swiftly interjected when that tiresome tripe about the bulldogs spewed from his gob....the more I think of it, was bloody extraordinary...can you imagine when John Howard handed over the reigns he took the opportunity to say oh, yeah whoops, sorry about the children overboard and all that detention centre stuff...This is ****en TIGERLAND not a VOX POP...i couldn't give a rats tossbag about the bulldogs other than kicking the **** thru them on FRI night...There should never be another club mentioned in a tigers presser other than our immediate opponent...It should have been censored no question

Obviously you're not aware he cleared it with March first and March agreed to it.

The objective for the club us was that the next Richmond coach saw Wallace and March amicably shaking hands (instead of knifing each other) and thought to himself that Robert Walls was full of sh it when he tried to talk him out of the job in the 3AW box.....

 

[IDGAF]

But HL is right. Spilling blood for the sake of appeasing the feral supporters scares away talented coaches.

... Yes .. but come on 80 , anyone with half a brain could see through it .

As you said ... wreaked on two fronts ...

OF us DEEEEESPERATELY trying to avoid painting the same canvass we have always painted and Terry Wallace...
DEEEEEESREATELY trying to be seen walking away with mutual respect and his cred intact .

When realistically , we know neither was achieved

 

[1980]

... Yes .. but come on 80 , anyone with half a brain could see through it .

As you said ... wreaked on two fronts ...

OF us DEEEEESPERATELY trying to avoid painting the same canvass we have always painted and Terry Wallace...
DEEEEEESREATELY trying to be seen walking away with mutual respect and his cred intact .

When realistically , we know neither was achieved

Its a farce, but the headlines came out the right way. Thats all anyone cares about in the AFL caper.

 

[IDGAF]

Its a farce, but the headlines came out the right way. Thats all anyone cares about in the AFL caper.

Problem is ... prospective coaches won`t

 

[Bojangles17]

Its a farce, but the headlines came out the right way. Thats all anyone cares about in the AFL caper.

well thats about the first bit of sense youve made in some time, keep it up