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CibbuanoWe lacked composure: Wallace
May 17th 2009 11:49
RICHMOND coach Terry Wallace said his side lacked composure during the dying minutes of the heartbreaking loss to Port Adelaide at AAMI Stadium on Sunday.
The Tigers led by nine points after Robin Nahas kicked his fifth goal at the 25-minute mark of the final term but they conceded the last two majors of the match to go down by three points.
Wallace said his side made unnecessary mistakes which eventually cost them the four premiership points.
"You get to a stage in the game where all of a sudden you are 15 odd points in front with a few minutes and your will to want to win versus your logic to do the right things, one can get in the way of the other and I really genuinely believe that's the case," Wallace said.
"You are just throwing yourselves into situations without actually thinking about what you are doing. We allowed them two duck-out the back goals which in this style of football are just gifting opposition goals."
"We had a minute or so to play and we said all we want to do is keep possession of the footy, we had blokes behind the ball, you could've gone anywhere on the ground you wanted to but we didn't keep our cool and we gave them back the opportunity to win the game."
The Tigers led by nine points after Robin Nahas kicked his fifth goal at the 25-minute mark of the final term but they conceded the last two majors of the match to go down by three points.
Wallace said his side made unnecessary mistakes which eventually cost them the four premiership points.
"You get to a stage in the game where all of a sudden you are 15 odd points in front with a few minutes and your will to want to win versus your logic to do the right things, one can get in the way of the other and I really genuinely believe that's the case," Wallace said.
"You are just throwing yourselves into situations without actually thinking about what you are doing. We allowed them two duck-out the back goals which in this style of football are just gifting opposition goals."
"We had a minute or so to play and we said all we want to do is keep possession of the footy, we had blokes behind the ball, you could've gone anywhere on the ground you wanted to but we didn't keep our cool and we gave them back the opportunity to win the game."
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