Controversy has raged since last week when Collingwood captain Maxwell was first found guilty and then exonerated on appeal after a bump that left Eagles youngster Pat McGinnity with a broken jaw.
But Wallace, who admitted to being somewhat confused by the situation regarding the bump, said he had told his players how to avoid the whole issue.
“Go and get the footy – if you go and get the footy you don’t have to worry about it too much,” he said on Tuesday. “So I’d rather see their head over the ball and getting it first.”
But Wallace admitted the coaches still had concerns about how the bump was described pre-season and how it has been interpreted so far.
“We have a meeting prior to the start of the season – all the coaches – and I think that we’ll look for a little bit of clarification surrounding the bump, because probably we all have our varying opinions on three or four or five incidents over the last couple of weeks, what should or shouldn’t have been done with them.
“I think the (AFL rules explanation) DVD was fairly clear in what was acceptable and what wasn’t acceptable, but I’m not sure the adjudication from that has been identical to the DVD, so that’s just where the clarification needs to come in.
“Four or five incidents that I’ve seen over the past two weeks, I probably would have given a different opinion from what I’d seen on the DVD to what actually occurred.
“So therefore I just want to go back to them to make sure we get clarification.”
But Wallace refused to comment on the Maxwell decision directly.
“There are four or five of them, and if you can choose which ones that I was surprised by and which ones I’m not, you’re a mind reader.”
