Terry Wallace

Who is Terry Wallace?

Terry Wallace is a former professional Australian rules football player and coach.

As a player, his career spanned three VFL/AFL clubs; most notably Hawthorn where he played in three premierships as well as achieving All-Australian selection honours on three separate occasions, two with Hawthorn and the other with Footscray Football Club, where he also amassed two Best and Fairest's. Wallace still holds the record for VFL/AFL most kicks in a singular season at 599 in 1983.

As coach, he took the Western Bulldogs from 15th in 1996 to 3rd when he featured in the documentary Year of the Dogs a position in which the club held in 1997 and 1998 during which he was named coach of the All-Australian team. Wallace's coaching style is considered to be innovative and he is credited with having started the modern practice of sides warming up the side on the field before a match. However Wallace's coaching career at Richmond between 2005 and 2009 was not so successful and he stepped down from coaching on 1 June 2009. This was partly an aftermath from drafting Richard Tambling over Lance 'Buddy' Franklin in the 2004 national draft. His last game as coach of the Richmond Tigers was against the Western Bulldogs on 5 June. It was later announced that his successor as coach would be Jade Rawlings.