It's not nice that somebody has lost their job, but I guess the club came to the point where they could see he wasn't adding any value to the club.
Sad for Wally but that's one less job for the boys. Hopefully a sign of the times now for EFC to lower the rating of being an Essendon person in job applications.
The guys just lost his job, probaly played 140 more games than those on here and a dual premiership player - show some respect those who aren't.
Thanks & all the best Wally!
Club and Wallis part ways
Staff Writers October 9, 2013 4:36 PM
Essendon Football Club and Dean Wallis have agreed to part ways following the recent restructure of the football department.
For the past two seasons Wallis had held the position of Team Services and Logistics Manager.
A dual premiership player and former assistant coach, the 44-year-old has been a great servant of the club for more than 20 years.
The club wishes Dean all the very best for the future
Thanks Dean, All the best
Can someone please confirm if he was actually a member of our coaching panel again in 2013 - after he served his suspension?
I also don't like that the AFL Website uses the word sacked. Surely the fact is his contract wasn't renewed. A sacking is when your employment is terminated prior to the expiration of a contract, not when you aren't offered an extension. At least the club website has the decency to announce that they have agreed to part ways following a restructure.
Also what a joke that AFL uses their website to report such things.
At least Hirdy was trying to make the club better, the F was Wallis doing gambling?It's more fair than if they had sacked James Byrne, the guy who they bought in to replace him.
Not fair that someone could do something wrong, get suspended, have a great, capable bloke come in and do a good job, then have that guy lose his job when "one of the boys" serves his penance.
o wait
I can't have this.
He put a few quads on, one that had Essendon in it.
Let's not pretend he's involved in match-fixing, he's a million miles from that. He's a country bloke who put on a few quadies.
Was it silly? Sure.
Was worse than half the players in the comp taking illegal drugs?
Only if you believe the AFL.
Tony Lockett 0 goals.
I think the quote from Sheedy was 'Nhill boys, nil goals' because I recall Wallis and Flood double-teamed Lockett that day.
Sad for Wally but that's one less job for the boys. Hopefully a sign of the times now for EFC to lower the rating of being an Essendon person in job applications.
If that's the best you can off, then don't bother
Vale Wally. Set up the 93 GF when he ran through Mil Hanna.
Vale Wally. Set up the 93 GF when he ran through Mil Hanna.
Do you honestly believe that?
Well? Do ya, punk?
http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-10-09/bombers-sack-wallis
ESSENDON assistant coach Dean Wallis has been sacked by the club as part of a restructure of the Bombers' football department.
Wallis was told of his termination at a meeting with club officials on Monday.
The dual premiership player confirmed the news to AFL.com.au and expressed his disappointment at the club's decision.
"Basically I won't be re-contracted for the 2014 season and I'm moving onto greener pastures," Wallis said.
"Anyway, that's life and that's what happens."
"I will probably explore other options outside of football, but I'll never say never. Twenty-seven years in the industry and probably the way it finished is a little bit disappointing. but that's the way the club has chosen to go and I respect that."
Former teammate Steven Alessio was charged with delivering the news to Wallis.
"That's the tough part of this industry, telling people they're no longer required," Wallis said.
"I've sort of been involved with that with players, and no doubt it would have been a tough job for 'Ses', if he was the message man, which he no doubt would have been. I think it would have been tough for him.
"It's been a tough year all round but my motto is 'everything happens for a reason', and the next chapter of the Wally journey begins.
"That's the exciting part. You don't look backwards, you look forwards."
It caps off a disappointing year for Wallis, who was implicated in the notorious supplements scandal of 2012, accused of failing to accurately record the substances taken by Bombers players.
Essendon is yet to name a senior coach to take over while James Hird serves his 12-month suspension, and Wallis insists he doesn't know who will be appointed.
Wallis played 127 games for the Bombers over 14 seasons at the club.
He continued at the club as an assistant coach before moving to Fremantle as an assistant in 2008.
Wallis returned to Essendon as a development coach in 2010 when Hird was appointed senior coach.
In 2011, Wallis was suspended for 14 games and fined $7500 for betting on AFL games.
Should never, ever, have been put into Danny Corcoran's job in the first place. Whose bright idea was that? This letting go of Wally should have happened a long time ago.
Tony Sheahan called it. Again.
Would NOT have to be a genuis to figure that one out!
Disappointing finish for Wally, hopefully he can come back to the club in a lesser way in the future. Despite his misgivings I believe there is always room for people like him in a football club, I also think a club owes anyone who has played in two premierships.
What??????? Was incompetent and what he said he could do and didn't do, got us into a lot of trouble.
Only about a year or two late. Astounded he was kept around after the gambling thing.
Jobs for the boys and it cost us, big time.
Another victim of the ASADA disaster :P
also
Where's Wally?
Victim? I don't think so.
Another victim of the ASADA disaster :P
also
Where's Wally?
Victim? I don't think so.
Let it go.
Tony Lockett 0 goals.
Flood played on Lockett. Wally just had the easy job of filling the gap in front of them :lol:
Lockett had a grand total of one mark and one kick, and IIRC he kicked it out on the full (SE flank at the MCG). He'd kicked 9 the week before.
Less remembered is regular full-back Daniher being moved to CHB to take on "Buckets" Loewe, and keeping him goal-less too.
It's an Exodus.
He was kept on after the gambling misdemeanor so he can't complain that the club hasn't' looked after him. I wonder if things would be different if he had of kept accurate records.
Maybe there was too much of an old boys club operating at Essendon. A new broom, a fresh start, new location and facilities and a re-invigorated administration may be one positive outcome of this sorry episode
Had have not of. Easy peasy.