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May 19th 2009 01:59
RICHMOND has confirmed that Terry Wallace will remain as coach of the club.
It was reported on Tuesday morning that Wallace had been sacked but Tigers football operations manager Craig Cameron dismissed suggestions that Wallace had been dumped as the club's coach only to then be reinstated.
"There was no point in time when Terry wasn't the coach of Richmond," Cameron said.
Cameron also said the club won't be swayed on making a decision on Wallace's future until its mid-season review no matter how intense the speculation becomes.
"There has been a lot of speculation about Terry's position and about our club over the last month but at no stage has our club altered from its course or its public position," he said.
"And that position is we have a process in place to review Terry's position (at mid year) and we haven't budged from that position."
Richmond captain Chris Newman didn't go into details about what went on in Tuesday's emergency meeting but said the players were still behind Wallace.
"I thought it was the right time, there were some things that had to come up and some things we had to raise," Newman said of Tuesday's meeting.
"We sit at 1-7 so we needed to sit down as a group and make sure everyone was on the same page and bring up where we are going wrong and what we need to do in the future."
Newman denied the players had been upset by Wallace's reaction to the heartbreaking three-point loss to Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium on Sunday.
"I have heard a bit about that speculation but he was sensational after the game," Newman said.
"His post match speech was really good and obviously he was pretty upset with the loss as we all were."
"But the meeting (on Tuesday) was about putting some specifics in place to help turn the season around."
Wallace began the season needing to guide the Tigers into the finals for the first time in his five seasons in charge in order to win a new contract.
But Richmond got their year off to the worst possible start when they were thumped to the tune of 83 points by Carlton in round one.
Since then the Tigers have won just one match - a 36-point win over North Melbourne in round five.
Wallace did not attend training on Tuesday as he was watching tapes of this week's opposition.
The Tigers clash with Essendon in Saturday night's Dreamtime match at the MCG.
It was reported on Tuesday morning that Wallace had been sacked but Tigers football operations manager Craig Cameron dismissed suggestions that Wallace had been dumped as the club's coach only to then be reinstated.
"There was no point in time when Terry wasn't the coach of Richmond," Cameron said.
Cameron also said the club won't be swayed on making a decision on Wallace's future until its mid-season review no matter how intense the speculation becomes.
"There has been a lot of speculation about Terry's position and about our club over the last month but at no stage has our club altered from its course or its public position," he said.
"And that position is we have a process in place to review Terry's position (at mid year) and we haven't budged from that position."
Richmond captain Chris Newman didn't go into details about what went on in Tuesday's emergency meeting but said the players were still behind Wallace.
"I thought it was the right time, there were some things that had to come up and some things we had to raise," Newman said of Tuesday's meeting.
"We sit at 1-7 so we needed to sit down as a group and make sure everyone was on the same page and bring up where we are going wrong and what we need to do in the future."
Newman denied the players had been upset by Wallace's reaction to the heartbreaking three-point loss to Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium on Sunday.
"I have heard a bit about that speculation but he was sensational after the game," Newman said.
"His post match speech was really good and obviously he was pretty upset with the loss as we all were."
"But the meeting (on Tuesday) was about putting some specifics in place to help turn the season around."
Wallace began the season needing to guide the Tigers into the finals for the first time in his five seasons in charge in order to win a new contract.
But Richmond got their year off to the worst possible start when they were thumped to the tune of 83 points by Carlton in round one.
Since then the Tigers have won just one match - a 36-point win over North Melbourne in round five.
Wallace did not attend training on Tuesday as he was watching tapes of this week's opposition.
The Tigers clash with Essendon in Saturday night's Dreamtime match at the MCG.
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