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This would have been a wonderful catharsis and deserved. For the current Richmond list, the Terry Wallace years are like Mark Wahlberg’s Funky Bunch era: whatever highlights there might have been, they are a huge and embarrassing legacy to overcome.
People may ask why there is not the same enmity towards Danny Frawley or even Jeff Gieschen. These coaches were like Touchstone in Shakespeare’s As You Like It , or Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s camp pendleton yard sale Dream , or Dipper – they’re written in as fools. That’s what the characters promised – and that’s what they delivered. We knew what we were getting with Frawley and Gieschen.
Although, it should be said that the real genius camp pendleton yard sale behind the Shakespearean fools was that they no fools at all – and that they gave stunning insights from their fool perspective. This was not the case with Frawley or Gieschen. Or Dipper.
But Terry. Terry was the monorail shyster preying on a small town. The snake oil salesman taking simpletons for a ride. He promised so much. And delivered so little. He was always more conscious of his own image, his own brand, than that of the club or his players. And all the while, he played the media on a break, camp pendleton yard sale studiously building support among influential opinion leaders, when he should have been building a playing list to win a premiership.
Instead of whacking Terry Wallace with a stick, this year I undertook a catharsis of a different kind. I entered two teams in AFL Supercoach. The first team was the current Richmond playing list. The second team was selected from every player we failed camp pendleton yard sale to draft over the past decade who is still playing. For this, I went to each draft selection Richmond has made and looked at the next five available players. camp pendleton yard sale
This was inspired by the 2004 AFL National Draft. We took Richard Tambling at pick four. Hawthorn, which must have felt like it was struck up the arse with a rainbow, selected Buddy Franklin. We chose a half-back flanker over a six-foot-four athletic freak with cat-like reflexes who can run like the wind.
As I’ve said many times, I feel terrible for Richard camp pendleton yard sale Tambling. None of this is his fault. But Richmond’s ineptitude under Terry Wallace set back our club a decade, and has seriously set back a young man’s football career, as he suffers from an unfair and unflattering comparison every time he steps out to play.
Both Tambling and Franklin missed a few games. Franklin missed seven games with injury and scored 1848 Supercoach points for the season, at an average of 115.5 points per game. Tambling camp pendleton yard sale missed 22 games through non-selection and scored 31 points, at an average of 31 points per game. Franklin was in 165,897 Supercoach teams – 44.34 per cent of teams. Tambling was in 965 teams – 0.26 per cent. This just proves the theory that for any survey, you’ll always find a statistically anomalous group of numbnuts who will do or say anything.
But this much I knew at the start of the season. The Supercoach experiment was about broadening my horizons, looking past the red mist that descends on my field of vision when I think of Terry Wallace. This was all about learning new things. So here are some things I learned this year. Round 1: versus Carlton, MCG. Richmond loss 44 points
The AFL season starts. Carlton flogs Richmond. Death. Taxes. The Fevolas like a camera. Post the Global Financial Crisis, and with the Eurozone on the brink of collapse, there are still some certainties in life. The one about Richmond and Carlton in round one totally sucks. Robin Nahas does not score a lot of Supercoach points. Or goals. But a rumour is doing the rounds that he needs an extra big pair of shorts. Insight. Round 2: versus Collingwood, MCG. Richmond loss 21 points
The camp pendleton yard sale 2004 Draft gets a lot of press because we picked Tambling over Franklin, but Terry Wallace really smashed the Tiges in the 2006 Draft. Two years into Terry’s five-year plan, we selected Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls with pick eight – not Mitch Clark, Shaun Higgins or Nathan Jones available immediately camp pendleton yard sale afterwards. We also picked Cleve Hughes with pick 24. He’s now delisted. And Travis Casserly with pick 40. Casserly is now also delisted. Andrew Swallow, now captain of North Melbourne camp pendleton yard sale and very much still playing, scored 128 Supercoach points on the weekend. That’s 128 more points than Oakley-Nicholls, Hughes and Casserly combined. Round 3: versus Melbourne, camp pendleton yard sale MCG. Richmond camp pendleton yard sale win 59 points
Travis Clo
Home Sport AFL Football League Union Other Pop Culture Film Music Television Other Contributors Ares Jack Jonty Mina Montgomery Prefontaine Titus Regular Items Relentless Effort 20-20 Deep Heat Friday Night Drinks Primer Preview Review Podcasts Wildog Podcast Network About Us About the Site About the Contributors Contact Us Mailbag camp pendleton yard sale
This would have been a wonderful catharsis and deserved. For the current Richmond list, the Terry Wallace years are like Mark Wahlberg’s Funky Bunch era: whatever highlights there might have been, they are a huge and embarrassing legacy to overcome.
People may ask why there is not the same enmity towards Danny Frawley or even Jeff Gieschen. These coaches were like Touchstone in Shakespeare’s As You Like It , or Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s camp pendleton yard sale Dream , or Dipper – they’re written in as fools. That’s what the characters promised – and that’s what they delivered. We knew what we were getting with Frawley and Gieschen.
Although, it should be said that the real genius camp pendleton yard sale behind the Shakespearean fools was that they no fools at all – and that they gave stunning insights from their fool perspective. This was not the case with Frawley or Gieschen. Or Dipper.
But Terry. Terry was the monorail shyster preying on a small town. The snake oil salesman taking simpletons for a ride. He promised so much. And delivered so little. He was always more conscious of his own image, his own brand, than that of the club or his players. And all the while, he played the media on a break, camp pendleton yard sale studiously building support among influential opinion leaders, when he should have been building a playing list to win a premiership.
Instead of whacking Terry Wallace with a stick, this year I undertook a catharsis of a different kind. I entered two teams in AFL Supercoach. The first team was the current Richmond playing list. The second team was selected from every player we failed camp pendleton yard sale to draft over the past decade who is still playing. For this, I went to each draft selection Richmond has made and looked at the next five available players. camp pendleton yard sale
This was inspired by the 2004 AFL National Draft. We took Richard Tambling at pick four. Hawthorn, which must have felt like it was struck up the arse with a rainbow, selected Buddy Franklin. We chose a half-back flanker over a six-foot-four athletic freak with cat-like reflexes who can run like the wind.
As I’ve said many times, I feel terrible for Richard camp pendleton yard sale Tambling. None of this is his fault. But Richmond’s ineptitude under Terry Wallace set back our club a decade, and has seriously set back a young man’s football career, as he suffers from an unfair and unflattering comparison every time he steps out to play.
Both Tambling and Franklin missed a few games. Franklin missed seven games with injury and scored 1848 Supercoach points for the season, at an average of 115.5 points per game. Tambling camp pendleton yard sale missed 22 games through non-selection and scored 31 points, at an average of 31 points per game. Franklin was in 165,897 Supercoach teams – 44.34 per cent of teams. Tambling was in 965 teams – 0.26 per cent. This just proves the theory that for any survey, you’ll always find a statistically anomalous group of numbnuts who will do or say anything.
But this much I knew at the start of the season. The Supercoach experiment was about broadening my horizons, looking past the red mist that descends on my field of vision when I think of Terry Wallace. This was all about learning new things. So here are some things I learned this year. Round 1: versus Carlton, MCG. Richmond loss 44 points
The AFL season starts. Carlton flogs Richmond. Death. Taxes. The Fevolas like a camera. Post the Global Financial Crisis, and with the Eurozone on the brink of collapse, there are still some certainties in life. The one about Richmond and Carlton in round one totally sucks. Robin Nahas does not score a lot of Supercoach points. Or goals. But a rumour is doing the rounds that he needs an extra big pair of shorts. Insight. Round 2: versus Collingwood, MCG. Richmond loss 21 points
The camp pendleton yard sale 2004 Draft gets a lot of press because we picked Tambling over Franklin, but Terry Wallace really smashed the Tiges in the 2006 Draft. Two years into Terry’s five-year plan, we selected Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls with pick eight – not Mitch Clark, Shaun Higgins or Nathan Jones available immediately camp pendleton yard sale afterwards. We also picked Cleve Hughes with pick 24. He’s now delisted. And Travis Casserly with pick 40. Casserly is now also delisted. Andrew Swallow, now captain of North Melbourne camp pendleton yard sale and very much still playing, scored 128 Supercoach points on the weekend. That’s 128 more points than Oakley-Nicholls, Hughes and Casserly combined. Round 3: versus Melbourne, camp pendleton yard sale MCG. Richmond camp pendleton yard sale win 59 points
Travis Clo
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