Bang, take that Terry.

Terry Wallace cost us a flag: Luke Darcy

* Sam Edmund
* From: Herald Sun
* July 30, 2010 1:57PM

LUKE Darcy says the Western Bulldogs would have won a premiership in the late 1990s if then-coach Terry Wallace had been able to cope with feedback from players.

Throwing his support behind the much-debated Leading Teams concept, Darcy claimed Wallace’s refusal to listen to the playing group cost the club a flag.

“It is my absolute belief that the Bulldogs would have won a premiership in the late ’90s had the coach felt secure enough in himself to accept input from the playing group,” Darcy wrote in an explosive column the AFL website.

“Unfortunately, Terry Wallace wasn’t the right character to handle this feedback; he believed that players meeting among themselves would lead to discontent. Not surprisingly, the Richmond players shared a similar experience following Terry’s five-year stint at Tigerland.

“When you create an environment that doesn’t allow people below you in a team to challenge your ideas, it makes it hard for them to develop and improve.”

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