Grew up with Bruce and Denis around all this mayhem. So much more entertaining than these former footy players who don't spend any time studying the game and talk about what they used to do.
It was a great place to grow up in the UK, I was stuck in the USA and Holland for a good part of my youth and missed out on the fantastic sense of humour and the much more easy going British girls.
Sheedy was a terrific coach, to do what he did over phases of success and otherwise over an extended period is an outstanding performance and very hard to do. Walls has a bit of a point there, but to denigrate one of the greatest coaches of all time in that way was ridiculously unfair on Sheedy. The fact is that Sheedy would have been an outstanding coach no matter which club he went to, and showed rare loyalty and persistence sticking with the one team, when he would have been offered more to go elsewhere. Not to mention the outstanding things Sheedy did for his club and the game. Walls could have made his point in another way, and the fact he did that by denigrating Sheedy just indicates the underlying animosity between the two great players and great coaches.
@@richardbehan8118 Sheedy doubted the Swans ability to pay the promised amount, as did a number of others who knocked back Edelsten's offers, such as Simon Madden.
i think the biggest comment that gives walls the points in the debate was. have you ever gone to the bank to pull money out of your personal account to pay your best and fairest winner.
Robert Walls will be proven right about his time at Brisbane later in 2001 when this video was taken and then the subsequent 2 years when the Lions won 3 GF in a row 2001 to 2003 beating Essendon in the 2001 GF
I lost all regard for Robert Walls the day I saw him kick his Collingwood opponent while he was lying on the ground. This was at Virginia Park Carlton Versus Collingwood. Note; I was an Essendon supporter, dragged along, unwillingly, to watch my 2 least favourite teams.
Caroline telling Kevin he was distracted and how much time he must been stewing over Robert Walls.. Is she bloody psychic or something? He did well to hold his cool after that absolute uninformed dribble.
He shut her down quick smart, it was funny. Imagine telling someone how they felt about something. She hasn't changed a bit, got more aggressive & insufferable if anything.
Like the Aussie coat of arms. Neither can take a backward step. I thought Bruce handled it well and Caroyln was more reserved than she is these days. Comments like "Well you've never coached" from sheeds. Today she'd be like how could I. Things have definitely changed. Sheeds went to GWS even 😂
They never really got along as the years went on. I know Robert walls is battling a serious cancer issue at the moment, he’s been away from football for a while now. Gerald Healy went and saw him in March and was told he only has a few months to live
I saw Robert Walls deliberately KICK his opponent 50 mts behind the play in a MCG match . Today’s Cameras would see him suspended for some 6 to 10 matches!
Thought at the time watching it that Walls came across better and think so now. Especially when Sheedy was critical of Walls on Libba for his behind the play incident when Sheedy had lost it at Mitchell White the year before in similar circumstances.
Controversy ?.........Que?.......Just a bit of theatre , Sheeds was always good at that ! Pick a target , fluff it up to something it never was .....theatre. ..great for tele and the media.
@@richardbehan8118 Both are. If you are saying that Walls wasn't. 259 games, over 400 goals, played state football, 3 premierships including a best on ground with 6 goals in 1972. Played the hardest position on the field which was Centre Half Forward and finally coached Carlton to a flag. Dead set legend of the game.
@@terrya8989 the AFL Hall of Fame legends inductees list says different. He was a good player and an ok coach.. Definitely not a legend, unlike Kevin Sheedy.
@@williamchristopher5653 A team that had to win four consecutive finals after finishing 7th, and were thus rank underdogs in every final?! Most impressive I've seen! Baby Bombers were minor premiers and very impressive, but benefitted from an Eagles premiership hangover.
@@gorgen23 yeh, he only cleaned out most of the players before his first 2 premierships, then rebuilt again for '93. If that's "bugger all" then you are delusional. Lol "defeated". Good one 👍
Walls, a man of integrity. Sheedy, a thug. Essendon were dirty under the thug. A good coach gets his team to win by skill, not take out key players in the opposition.
Walls wins because eventually Sheedy coached a wooden spoon team and built a club at GWS and gained that next level of experience. Can't denigrate Sheeds survival instincts at the Bombers (and still last coach of a finals win) but fact is fact - less variety of experience than Walls and Malthouse
