Last year I potted Terry Wallace over his non-denial denials; "I cannot have robbed that bank because I have a solarium at home." In other words, an accusation is emphatically denied with a firmly stated irrelevancy.
Some call it being sleazy:
Yesterday in the Herald Sun there was yet another article about the release of John Elliot's revisionist bleat book, Big Jack:
I Know Nothing!My Sporting Life. One suspects there are more on the way. Anyway, in the excerpt he pots Wallace....Former Carlton President John Elliot has claimed Terry Wallace said he could bring a $250,000 sponsor and a well known player to the club if the Blues gave him the coaching job.
The Hun sought out Wallace for a reply....
Wallace last night confirmed he had briefly spoken to Elliot about the coaching position after the Blues boss had phoned him, but described the other claims as rubbish.
"Can he get out of the eighties?" Wallace asked when told of the claims.
Cute. But it means nothing.
"There are rules in place that would not allow that [bringing players] anyway."
So what! Wallace's denial is that the allegations can't possibly be true because player transfer rules have changed. True. They have. But they don't stop Wallace convincing a player to transfer from one side to another at the end of a contract.
When he applied for the Richmond coaching job, I wonder how many well known players he told them he could bring:
The uneasy relationship that has existed between Terry Wallace and his former club, the Western Bulldogs, is threatening to become acrimonious, with the Dogs accusing the Richmond coach of mounting a raid on their players and staff.
The suspicion of a poaching campaign was confirmed in the minds of Bulldog staff last week when contracted midfielder Lindsay Gilbee informed the club he wanted to be traded, preferably to the Tigers.
Gilbee's demand, which has been refused, followed strong suggestions of an earlier approach to Patrick Bowden, the uncontracted younger brother of Richmond's Joel Bowden, more of which may be known today.
Heard today that when Wallace rang Patrick Bowden, Bowden was with a gang of Bulldogs players and proceded to put Wallace's call on the speaker phone.
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