Wallace Wary Of Fanatics

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PROSPECTIVE AFL coach Terry Wallace says any candidate wanting to join Richmond next year could be scared away by the Tigers' abusive fans.

Wallace, the former Western Bulldogs coach who maintains he will not coach this year, said supporter behaviour such as Friday night's aggressive outbursts would only drive candidates away.

"Every prospective coach knows the list isn't up to scratch and knows they are going to have to do a lot of work," he said on 3AW.

"If they think they are going to cop that when they come to the footy club, why are they going to come?"

Wallace said he understood fans' frustrations and did not mind them venting their anger at turnovers, saying it made them part of the game.

But he said that if the club wanted "somebody to put up their hand and do the job" such abuse was not going to help attract candidates.

Wallace's comments came as Richmond coach Danny Frawley said yesterday he was prepared to bear the brunt of criticism until

the end of the year as long as his team kept improving from Friday night's capitulation.

Frawley said Richmond's performance was unacceptable and his job as coach was to make sure it started playing as a team again.

The pressure continues to mount on the Tigers to sack Frawley or start looking for other options, but he said he could not start thinking about anything other than his team's performance.

"We will get through this and we will be a hell of a lot better when we come out the other side," Frawley said, facing the media 12 hours after Richmond's 75-point loss.

"That (speculation) will go on and on and on until Round 22 and you can keep talking about it.

"If that is going to be the highlight of our club and the focus on me, well and good, I will shoulder that.

"But my job is to make sure we get our better players playing well and get our team teaming well and at the moment we are not doing that and that is all I can focus on."

Frawley said he and the players could only remain upbeat, despite losing the past four games by a combined total of 238 points.

"I can't focus on situations like (my contract)," he said.

"That is the furthest to my mind at the minute.

"I have got a hell of a job to make sure my players and we as a group play some good competitive football.

"That is our challenge and my focus.

"I am not putting up a facade of being upbeat, we are better than that."

Frawley and the coaching staff yesterday conducted a match review of the loss, concerned the players did not do enough to stop Adelaide's second-quarter charge.

The Tigers have worries across the ground, but centre on the lack of form from key onballers Mark Coughlan, Joel Bowden and Kane Johnson.

Up forward Brad Ottens is also down on form and in defence Darren Gaspar's lack of mobility on his return from knee surgery has thrown out the backline's balance.

The only light on the horizon is the form of recruit Nathan Brown, the emergence of Andrew Krakouer, the hardness of Tim Fleming and the encouraging display from youngsters Thomas Roach and Brent Hartigan.

"There were parts of intensity there and then we seem to drop off, so all we can do is stick together

as a group and work through this," Frawley said.

"It is going to turn, hopefully sooner rather than later.

"We have to keep working hard and it will turn.

"It is a bit like the rain yesterday.

"The drought broke and when it did break, look out.

"We have got to hope it will be a hell of a lot sooner rather than later."

Richmond will endure another week of speculation over the state of the club and Frawley's tenure before taking on Hawthorn at Telstra Dome on Friday night.

"No one likes to be involved in losses like that, but we have got to learn from it," Frawley said.

"We have got to have a more steely resolve and we haven't got that, but in Round 1 (against Collingwood) we did and we know we can get it back.

"It has got to start from me. It has got to be shoulders back and move forward.

"We have got a lot of work to do.

"It is going to be fantastic when it turns around and we know it can."

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Originally posted by wrennyboy
PROSPECTIVE AFL coach Terry Wallace says any candidate wanting to join Richmond next year could be scared away by the Tigers' abusive fans.

Wallace, the former Western Bulldogs coach who maintains he will not coach this year, said supporter behaviour such as Friday night's aggressive outbursts would only drive candidates away.

"Every prospective coach knows the list isn't up to scratch and knows they are going to have to do a lot of work," he said on 3AW.

"If they think they are going to cop that when they come to the footy club, why are they going to come?"

good that counts you out!after all when the going got tough at the bulldogs you up and left.
 

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Originally posted by tiger of old
good that counts you out!after all when the going got tough at the bulldogs you up and left.
Thats exactly right tiger of old...I am a doggies supporter and what Wallace did was a cowards act. My advice, you could do a lot better than him.
 

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Originally posted by Aquamarinejewel
Thats exactly right tiger of old...I am a doggies supporter and what Wallace did was a cowards act. My advice, you could do a lot better than him.
forgot about that....hmmmmmmmmm
 

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Originally posted by Aquamarinejewel
Thats exactly right tiger of old...I am a doggies supporter and what Wallace did was a cowards act. My advice, you could do a lot better than him.
Coaching Richmond is the classic HIGH RISK / HIGH REWARD job.

You will either become a hero for life or tossed out like yesterdays paper.

I am concerned that history may repeat itself if Wallace came to Punt Road.

Did he laast a full year as a player at Richmond?
 

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Originally posted by ozserpico66
Coaching Richmond is the classic HIGH RISK / HIGH REWARD job.

You will either become a hero for life or tossed out like yesterdays paper.

I am concerned that history may repeat itself if Wallace came to Punt Road.

Did he laast a full year as a player at Richmond?
Frawley had a reasonable run with supporters for four years. He's copping extra flak because of the pent up frustration and a change should have been made at the end of last year. The scenes on Friday would not have happened with a newly appointed coach, so the administration who misread the supporter reaction and granted the extra year are also to blame.
 
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Originally posted by Keef
Frawley had a reasonable run with supporters for four years. He's copping extra flak because of the pent up frustration and a change should have been made at the end of last year. The scenes on Friday would not have happened with a newly appointed coach, so the administration who misread the supporter reaction and granted the extra year are also to blame.

Great point Keef, this is totally an admin blunder and these scenes for the past 2 weeks are truely their fault for letting Frawley continue on when it was obvious to all he wasnt upto the job after 4 years of the same peformances week after week.
 
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