Shannon Gill

I've seen us play like that at times before, but it was the way we went about it this time that disturbed me.

It was a non-performance and it had to raise big questions.

I mean, it was a brand new season.

There were two ways to go, but for me to persevere would have been a big risk because if we'd had problems down the track and things hadn't changed, another season was gone or it was a chance for some, uh, for some sort of new blood in there that

That might've given the club an instant lift in enthusiasm.

This way, the clubs got a chance.

So he foretold precisely what came next.

Coach sacked after the Foster's Cup.

Our next case study is a coach sacked after two rounds when they are one and one.

Terry Wheeler sacked after two games when the Bulldogs were 1-1.

So he's a former dogs player and he's coaching successfully in the VFA.

All right.

So then, uh, give us the buildup to, uh, to the flash.

We are right at the flash points.

Okay.

So the dogs have just lost to Geelong by 80 points.

They're one and one.

the sack comes.

To the back page of the age, in an era where the newspapers were king, Wednesday, the 6th of April, 1994, by Stephen Linnell, Charles Happel and Greg Denham, Terry Wheeler today is expected to be sacked as coach of Footscray and it names Alan Joyce as the favoured man to replace him, which is precisely what happens.

So much of this is documented, not just through newspapers, but Terry Wheeler goes on the footy show the following night and...