If Richmond wants to get rid of Terry Wallace it will have to sack him.
That was the message loud and clear from the embattled Tigers' coach on Friday, who insisted he will not quit regardless of how the club performs over the rest of the season.
Wallace's future as coach of Richmond appears terminal with the club having recorded just one from its first eight matches this season - in a year in which Wallace had to get the club into the finals for the first time in his five years in charge in order to gain a new contract.
There were reports on Tuesday that Wallace had been sacked following an alleged fall-out with senior players - particularly captain Chris Newman who reportedly asked Wallace to resign - but the club's board decided to stick with Wallace.
However his future is only guaranteed until the club's mid-season review in a month's time with the Tigers insisting that no decision will be made on Wallace until then.
But despite the pressure on Wallace appearing to build to intolerable levels this week, the Tigers' coach says he will not walk away from the job.
When asked on Friday why he wants to go despite the hopelessness of his plight; Wallace replied: "It's my job."
"I will do the job I am asked to do, until I am no longer asked to do it," he said.
Having famously walked away from his first senior coaching job with the Western Bulldogs with one match remaining in the 2002 home and away season - reportedly to accept the coaching job at Sydney which later never materialised - Wallace said he would not make the same mistake twice.
"I am not going to break my commitment to Richmond," he said of his original five year contract which expires at the end of this season.
"I have gone publicly on record as saying that my time at the Bulldogs' finished poorly, it wasn't what I wanted and it wasn't the way I expected to go and I wouldn't do that again."
"I want to do what’s right for Richmond and all the Richmond people who want to see the place start to get itself right."
Wallace said he left Tuesday's much-publicised meeting with senior players, president Gary March and head of football Craig Cameron confident that he still had the support of the club but accepted that could change if the Tigers continued to lose in coming weeks.
"I have gone public on the record saying that if Richmond at any stage feel they want to move me on for any purpose or any reason then I am comfortable with that," he said.
"But it's up the decision makers (to do that) and we had the decision makers in the room on Tuesday and the decision makers want me to continue in my job as senior coach."