Congrats Terry Wallace

[ratsmac]

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If Wallet did leave us when he did, that means Peter Rhode wouldn't have had the opportunity to coach us into the ground and we wouldn't of got the likes of Cooney or Griffen in the draft, so thanks for that Plough ;-)

[BulldogBelle]

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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.

He introduced a lot of new ideas and innovations into the club and participated in a lot of media work promoting the Bulldogs trying to raise our profile. Good luck to him on his milestone this week. I too, wasn't exactly thrilled with the way he departed but as Ben Cousin's midriff says ...Such is Life.

[Remi Moses]

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The facts are his coaching from about 98 onwards was bloody dreadful. Look at the recruiting band aid efforts [wont go through the names again!]had the job at Sydney [while still coaching us] then whored himself out to Elliot and Carlton. Ask David Smorgon what he thinks of Terry?Just a quick reminder we had some very good young footballers in the late 90's

[Remi Moses]

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He introduced a lot of new ideas and innovations into the club and participated in a lot of media work promoting the Bulldogs trying to raise our profile. Good luck to him on his milestone this week. I too, wasn't exactly thrilled with the way he departed but as Ben Cousin's midriff says ...Such is Life.

Pleeeease the media work was to promote himself ,panelist on ''The Couch'' column space in the Hun. Look i'll concede he was very good early [warm ups on the ground] interviews while the game is in progress. But what irks me is that he never wears any responsibility when his team fails

[The Adelaide Connection]

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I actually feel embarrassed to read a lot of the posts on this thread. So much mud gets slung on various opposition supporters, like the continual bashing of the Aami crowds and the poor record of some of the Collingwood faithful, but if this is the mentality of some of our most loyal supporters (which forumites often are) then I believe we have a lot to answer for.

This is a congratulatory thread for an amazing football achievement. There are other threads for Wallace bashing. We get that he is unliked. We get that people are bitter. But FFS you would think that you would be able to focus on the blokes positive side on such a thread for such an achievement.

He has done a lot of wonderful things for the game we love and many, many of those things at our club. So count to five, take some deep breaths, put the blowtorch down and raise a glass for a bloke that has achieved something that much less than 1% achieve.

Well done Terry.

[BulldogBelle]

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Pleeeease the media work was to promote himself ,panelist on ''The Couch'' column space in the Hun.

Maybe so, but he also raised the profile of the club. I know I definitely liked seeing our club getting a little more attention at the time.

Look i'll concede he was very good early [warm ups on the ground] interviews while the game is in progress.

Yeah, he was good with getting those warm ups and the interviews happening.

[Remi Moses]

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I actually feel embarrassed to read a lot of the posts on this thread. So much mud gets slung on various opposition supporters, like the continual bashing of the Aami crowds and the poor record of some of the Collingwood faithful, but if this is the mentality of some of our most loyal supporters (which forumites often are) then I believe we have a lot to answer for.

This is a congratulatory thread for an amazing football achievement. There are other threads for Wallace bashing. We get that he is unliked. We get that people are bitter. But FFS you would think that you would be able to focus on the blokes positive side on such a thread for such an achievement.

He has done a lot of wonderful things for the game we love and many, many of those things at our club. So count to five, take some deep breaths, put the blowtorch down and raise a glass for a bloke that has achieved something that much less than 1% achieve.

Well done Terry.

Raise a glass of West End maybe.

[The Adelaide Connection]

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Raise a glass of West End maybe.

ha ha, I will pay that. The truth is I would rather go thirsty than drink that trash though (or VB for that matter )

[The Pie Man]

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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.

Maybe I should have posted the whole interview : along the congratulatory line, the below was a question on his media work, and the last line in italics I 100% agree with. His work from 97 on was crucial to our profile - I remember him attacking a journalist at a press conference (I think after the Sydney game Rd 2 97) for writing something negative about us and I thought 'there's someone passionate about where we're going'

I also think it's funny that he thinks the Year of the Dog helped - great doco, not exactly positive though was it? Very good mark of a moment in time to see how far we've come.


Media-friendliness – you really changed the whole coach-media dynamic, didn’t you?
Well, I was a bit different to a lot of the old-style coaches – they were very suspicious of the media, and the people they trained learned the same things, so nothing really changed, But I had worked for several years at Channel 9, and so I approached it from a different viewpoint.

I had to be media-friendly, and take it to a new level, both for the game and the club (Western Bulldogs). I believe that as custodians of the game that while we have to win games, of course, it also has to be a game that people want to watch, to come and see, so the better you sell it, the better it works.

When I went to the Bulldogs we had no profile at all – nobody knew the club, nobody knew any of our players. I was there during the making of ‘Year of the Dog’ documentary and that really helped put us in the spotlight and get people to take notice of us.

But we had to do it to survive.

[comrade]

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I've actually met a number of people who became Bulldogs supporters after watching Year of the Dog, particularly Fitzroy fans who were looking for a new team to invest in.

[GVGjr]

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I've actually met a number of people who became Bulldogs supporters after watching Year of the Dog, particularly Fitzroy fans who were looking for a new team to invest in.

Gluttons for punishment? I have met a few as well in fact I think a couple of WOOF members started off as Fitzroy supporters.

[LostDoggy]

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I actually feel embarrassed to read a lot of the posts on this thread. So much mud gets slung on various opposition supporters, like the continual bashing of the Aami crowds and the poor record of some of the Collingwood faithful, but if this is the mentality of some of our most loyal supporters (which forumites often are) then I believe we have a lot to answer for.

Same here. It seems that whenever someone leaves the club for greener pastures a high portion of our supporters take the opportunity to bag them for life.
The question is where do you draw the line?
Guys like Gary Dempsey an Tony McGuinness left us for improved opportunities. Same with Mick Malthouse. Libertore hasn't been overly graceful since he left us either.
I was sorry and in some cases shitty to see all of them go but I don't hold it against any of them especially when they achieve a milestone like Wallace has.

It seems to me that because we are a club that is starved for success for so long our supporters compensate by getting their thrills by sticking the boot into others that also fall short of the mark. It probably says more about us than it does about the players and coaches that departed us.

[LostDoggy]

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He introduced a lot of new ideas and innovations into the club and participated in a lot of media work promoting the Bulldogs trying to raise our profile. Good luck to him on his milestone this week. I too, wasn't exactly thrilled with the way he departed but as Ben Cousin's midriff says ...Such is Life.

Have to agree BB, and also I'm of an age who can remember him as a player, and he was very courageous. I think he has some weaknesses as a coach, given the list at Richmond seems alot like the one he left us with!

Also need to pick you up on one thing - do you really think Ben Cousin's has a midriff - I was thinking more along the lines of a washboard stomach, or 6-pack

[BulldogBelle]

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I think he has some weaknesses as a coach, given the list at Richmond seems alot like the one he left us with!

Yes, there are a few similarities.

Also need to pick you up on one thing - do you really think Ben Cousin's has a midriff - I was thinking more along the lines of a washboard stomach, or 6-pack

But of course you are right and from a female perspective side of things (me) I definitely agree.

[The Adelaide Connection]

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Gluttons for punishment? I have met a few as well in fact I think a couple of WOOF members started off as Fitzroy supporters.

I was a Fitzroy supporter. I was only about 15 but I think "year of the dog" was certainly a big reason that I gravitated to the dogs after their demise. Lets face it, the film crew could have just as easily chosen to do "year of the lion" and it would have been a very similar documentary with just a different, much sadder ending.