Congrats Terry Wallace

[Jasper]

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This is a top achievement, over 10 years as a senior AFL coach is a tremendous effort.

His health at the minute is one of those 'it's only a game' reminders for me. I felt for him recently, and that says something about the pressure he was under as I like plenty of Dogs fans lost respect for him after he left, but to hear he lost 4 kgs in a matter of days was really alarming.

His legacy will be this 500 achievement and a few flags with Hawthorn as a tough, inside midfielder. Plenty don't bow out of elite footy with a record as good as that..... and I can't resist..it will be better than Nathan Brown's record....sorry, the hatchet's nearly buried.

Well done Plough anyway.

I wasn't happy to see the way Plough left us but thats water under the bridge now and it's a shame to see and hear so many of our supporters treating him like garbage. He did a lot for our club and I can't hang him for a few mistakes.
500 games is a significant achievement

[AndrewP6]

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I wasn't happy to see the way Plough left us but thats water under the bridge now and it's a shame to see and hear so many of our supporters treating him like garbage. He did a lot for our club and I can't hang him for a few mistakes.
500 games is a significant achievement

We're just treating him the way he treated our club. Funny that the year he's certain to lose his job is the one where he comes out and says how he feels bad about the way he ended his time at the Bulldogs. He's full of it.

[boydogs]

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I wasn't happy to see the way Plough left us but thats water under the bridge now and it's a shame to see and hear so many of our supporters treating him like garbage. He did a lot for our club and I can't hang him for a few mistakes.
500 games is a significant achievement

There is a difference between mistakes as in accidents and mistakes as in regretting what you did 5 years later. I think its hard to accept his words as genuine given the delay and the circumstances in which they were delivered, rather than an apology it seemed more like he was pleading to be allowed to coach out the season because he has already been through one less than graceful exit, so we should be sorry for him and not put him through that again

I can appreciate his achievements at our club, but I think the list development question is legitimate, Richmond are not in good shape now and he only did well for us at the start with the list he inherited

[Remi Moses]

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There is a difference between mistakes as in accidents and mistakes as in regretting what you did 5 years later. I think its hard to accept his words as genuine given the delay and the circumstances in which they were delivered, rather than an apology it seemed more like he was pleading to be allowed to coach out the season because he has already been through one less than graceful exit, so we should be sorry for him and not put him through that again

I can appreciate his achievements at our club, but I think the list development question is legitimate, Richmond are not in good shape now and he only did well for us at the start with the list he inherited

Here here. my exact sentiments. Gee some on here are very very forgiving

[Remi Moses]

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I wasn't happy to see the way Plough left us but thats water under the bridge now and it's a shame to see and hear so many of our supporters treating him like garbage. He did a lot for our club and I can't hang him for a few mistakes.
500 games is a significant achievement

you are what you sow fella and Wallet treated the club in particular David Smorgon like GARBAGE

[The Pie Man]

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He's conceded publicly that this is his last year as a coach.

I read on the AFL website an interview he gave today - the best (and most interesting swipe at some premiership coaches who have had a supposed 'armchair ride') bits are here

Your proudest achievement in footy?
It would have to be being best and fairest in a premiership year (Hawks, 1983). All the other awards are nice, I suppose, but to be voted the best player in the team that won the flag – by the people at the club - can’t be topped.

And your lowest moments?
The game is about winning grand finals, so two games stick out for me – being four goals up at three quarter time gives you a reasonable expectation of winning, and the Dogs managed that in the preliminary in 1997 against Adelaide, and they turned it on to win it and deny us a grand final after we hadn’t been there for so long.

As a player, the 1984 grand final against Essendon – we led by that four goals at the last change, and they kicked nine goals to two in the last to beat us. That was shattering as well.

How do you feel about not winning a flag as a coach?
There's no doubt that it's a case of being in the right place at the right time. I have a winning record against several premiership coaches so I am confident in my abilities.

The two clubs I have taken over were 15th or 16th so I never received an armchair ride like some have been fortunate enough to get.

[comrade]

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He's conceded publicly that this is his last year as a coach.

I read on the AFL website an interview he gave today - the best (and most interesting swipe at some premiership coaches who have had a supposed 'armchair ride') bits are here

Your proudest achievement in footy?
It would have to be being best and fairest in a premiership year (Hawks, 1983). All the other awards are nice, I suppose, but to be voted the best player in the team that won the flag – by the people at the club - can’t be topped.

Interesting that his proudest achievement wasn't actually winning a premiership, but winning an individual award.

[AndrewP6]

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He's conceded publicly that this is his last year as a coach.

I read on the AFL website an interview he gave today - the best (and most interesting swipe at some premiership coaches who have had a supposed 'armchair ride') bits are here

Your proudest achievement in footy?
It would have to be being best and fairest in a premiership year (Hawks, 1983). All the other awards are nice, I suppose, but to be voted the best player in the team that won the flag – by the people at the club - can’t be topped.

And your lowest moments?
The game is about winning grand finals, so two games stick out for me – being four goals up at three quarter time gives you a reasonable expectation of winning, and the Dogs managed that in the preliminary in 1997 against Adelaide, and they turned it on to win it and deny us a grand final after we hadn’t been there for so long.

As a player, the 1984 grand final against Essendon – we led by that four goals at the last change, and they kicked nine goals to two in the last to beat us. That was shattering as well.

How do you feel about not winning a flag as a coach?
There's no doubt that it's a case of being in the right place at the right time. I have a winning record against several premiership coaches so I am confident in my abilities.

The two clubs I have taken over were 15th or 16th so I never received an armchair ride like some have been fortunate enough to get.

Unpublished last question - Name your favourite person in the world?
Answer - No doubt, Terry Wallace.

[GVGjr]

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We're just treating him the way he treated our club. Funny that the year he's certain to lose his job is the one where he comes out and says how he feels bad about the way he ended his time at the Bulldogs. He's full of it.

Two wrongs fixes everything does it?

[AndrewP6]

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Two wrongs fixes everything does it?

No, but I'm not out to save the world...just don't think very highly of the man.

[BulldogBelle]

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I prefer to remember him as a very courageous player.

[AndrewP6]

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I prefer to remember him as a very courageous player.

I was only a kid when he was playing so I can't recall him in that era, all I have is his coaching work to go on.

[Rocco Jones]

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Interesting that his proudest achievement wasn't actually winning a premiership, but winning an individual award.

Good pick up. I think it sums him up pretty well.

[Rocco Jones]

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I have no issues with our fans congratulating him and all that but honestly speaking, I am glad that he has failed as coach of the Tigers.

[GVGjr]

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No, but I'm not out to save the world...just don't think very highly of the man.

It's easy to write off people but Terry Wallace should be remembered for a lot of the good things he did for the club. Nobody liked the way that he left the club and yes he put a lot of spin on things but he played a lot of games for us, coached the reserves to a premiership and did some remarkable things for our side as a senior coach. You don't have to like him but his record as a player and coach deserves respect.