Tambling said Wallace had the full support of the players and it was business as usual at Tigerland.
"Our focus is solidly on the weekend," Tambling said. "The boys are as tight as we have been all year.
"We know who our coach is and hopefully he is going to be there for the rest of the year.
"We've copped it a lot this year with Benny [Cousins] coming over and now with Plough [Wallace]; we're just treating every week as it comes. It's the only thing we can control so we're trying to control the controllables."
Tambling, 22, admitted he was met with chaotic scenes when he arrived at Punt Road on Monday morning.
"I turned up at training and the boys were talking about what was said in the paper, so obviously we were all very confused," he said.
"It was all laid to rest before training after we had a meeting. It was all over and done with within half an hour.
"I don't read the paper very much these days but the boys were talking about it and it was very disappointing it was in the paper."
The young speedster affirmed his positive relationship with Wallace, and said the embattled coach had been "very helpful" throughout his five-year career.
"He's put me in positions where I've never played before and kept me in the team when sometimes I didn't deserve to be," he said.
"He tells me to work hard and every time that he's dropped me, he's come and had a chat to me and said, 'You need to do this and this, and you'll get back in the team'.
As the oldest of Richmond's four indigenous players, Tambling said he had initially tried to create a home feeling for the younger boys after they arrived at the club from interstate.
He said Jarrad Oakley-Nicholls had since settled with his family coming to Melbourne, while Shane Edwards "had lots of mates" after arriving from Adelaide in 2006.
When the youngest of the lot, rookie Alroy Gilligan, arrived at Punt Road last year from Perth as an 18-year-old with no nearby family, Tambling stepped in.
"Before the season started, he was staying with Jackie, my mother-in-law, and they enjoy each other's company so it ended up being permanent," Tambling said.
"Having the other boys look up to me and ask me for advice has definitely helped me mature a bit."
Tambling says he always considered himself a mature person, considering he left home at a young age and has two children, Tyson (three and a half years) and Leah (six weeks), by the age of 22.
However, all the maturity in the world couldn't have made the past five years easier for the Territorian, having constantly been the topic of conversation for his deviating form.
"It's very hard. It did affect me for a few years but you can only control certain things and that's what I aim to do; control what I can control," he said.
"The comparison [to Buddy Franklin] doesn't really annoy me anymore. I just laugh at it now because there were 70 other boys in the draft that year and certain people have done better than others, and it just takes longer to develop for some people."
A new role within the side has since given Tambling hope for the future.
"I was thrown around a fair bit last year but as a junior I played as a midfielder," he said.
"What the team needs now is a lead up forward and that's what I'm playing, and I'm pretty comfortable with that.
"With more games played and having a fresh state of mind lets you just go out there and play on instincts, and I think that's what I'm doing more this year."
