Exploding the Terry Wallace myth.

[hujsh]

Re: Exploding the Terry Wallace myth.

While i don't like him or rate him I wonder where the club would find itself without the 97/98 years. Leaving may have been dogact but he did provide a service for a short time before dragging us back eventually and jumping ship.

I believe Terry Wheeler was the coach before him (excuse my ignorance) but there is no guarantee we would have made a prelim under him (we may have won the GF with him as well though)

[ledge]

Re: Exploding the Terry Wallace myth.

Hey Dancin your asking a bulldog website what they think of a bloke who walked out on the club.
Anyway will try and give you unbiased thoughts of mine.
Number 1 he did the best he could with what he had when he came to us.
Number 2 all coaches have a use by date and regardless of him leaving because of dodgy deals or whatever the last year he coached us it wasnt working at all.
He was a great coach for us at the time he came and whatever he did worked for us for a couple of years.
In saying that, he looks like another Denis Pagan now, was great at one club.
I think Terry is a seat of the pants coach, which in the end catches up with you when the opposition works you out.

[FrediKanoute]

Re: Exploding the Terry Wallace myth.

While i don't like him or rate him I wonder where the club would find itself without the 97/98 years. Leaving may have been dogact but he did provide a service for a short time before dragging us back eventually and jumping ship.

I believe Terry Wheeler was the coach before him (excuse my ignorance) but there is no guarantee we would have made a prelim under him (we may have won the GF with him as well though)

Alan Joyce was coach before Wallace, Wheeler before Joyce

[alwaysadog]

Re: Exploding the Terry Wallace myth.

Hey Dancin your asking a bulldog website what they think of a bloke who walked out on the club.
Anyway will try and give you unbiased thoughts of mine.
Number 1 he did the best he could with what he had when he came to us.
Number 2 all coaches have a use by date and regardless of him leaving because of dodgy deals or whatever the last year he coached us it wasnt working at all.
He was a great coach for us at the time he came and whatever he did worked for us for a couple of years.
In saying that, he looks like another Denis Pagan now, was great at one club.
I think Terry is a seat of the pants coach, which in the end catches up with you when the opposition works you out.

Very smart post and analysis Ledge, does anyone need to add more?

Have some forgotten that we have had a very good start to the season and whatever one's gripes about what has gone down in the past, the present and the future are of far greater significance.

I love history, especially that of our club, as do lots of posters on this site, but self destructive anger only feeds itself.

[Dancin' Douggy]

Re: Exploding the Terry Wallace myth.

Hey Dancin your asking a bulldog website what they think of a bloke who walked out on the club.
Anyway will try and give you unbiased thoughts of mine.
Number 1 he did the best he could with what he had when he came to us.
Number 2 all coaches have a use by date and regardless of him leaving because of dodgy deals or whatever the last year he coached us it wasnt working at all.
He was a great coach for us at the time he came and whatever he did worked for us for a couple of years.
In saying that, he looks like another Denis Pagan now, was great at one club.
I think Terry is a seat of the pants coach, which in the end catches up with you when the opposition works you out.

I'm asking what they think of his coaching. Not what they think of him.

[GVGjr]

Re: Exploding the Terry Wallace myth.

I'm asking what they think of his coaching. Not what they think of him.

Thats the way that I answered it.

[Dancin' Douggy]

Re: Exploding the Terry Wallace myth.

I know you did gvgjr. And it was a good post too. Just picking you up on your opening line.

[GVGjr]

Re: Exploding the Terry Wallace myth.

I know you did gvgjr. And it was a good post too. Just picking you up on your opening line.

You know he is very good at getting players to believe in themselves and he networks so well with the senior group. One of the problems during his tenure was that he had two sets of rules and the senior group had a lot of scope to pick and chose which events they would attend regardless of the commitments to the sponsors to the supporter groups. Thankfully only a couple of them took advantage of that latitude but it did cause a few rifts for some of the other players.

[ledge]

Re: Exploding the Terry Wallace myth.

You know he is very good at getting players to believe in themselves and he networks so well with the senior group. One of the problems during his tenure was that he had two sets of rules and the senior group had a lot of scope to pick and chose which events they would attend regardless of the commitments to the sponsors to the supporter groups. Thankfully only a couple of them took advantage of that latitude but it did cause a few rifts for some of the other players.

Was Nathan Brown wasnt it? i believe we were ok to give him what he wanted, but wanted him to visit schools and stuff but he wouldnt and club stood firm. Is that anywhere near the truth?
Looks like it was planned for him to follow Terry anyway.
I remember Browny saying he wanted to go to a club that was going to play finals footy, but had turned down Collingwood, who had just played in 2 grand finals! MMM Dont think he would have got away with anything under Mick Malthouse, if that was the case.
Maybe Terry got too close to some of his players in the end, its a fine line, every coach would have favourites, but its how you handle it.

[GVGjr]

Re: Exploding the Terry Wallace myth.

I don't think it was solely Brown but yes he was very selective of the functions that he attended whereas others didn't have that luxury.

[Topdog]

Re: Exploding the Terry Wallace myth.

Brilliant post Freddi. Spot on.