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I am sick of listening to supporters from other Clubs complaining about Melbourne's "tanking". I can rememberin 2007 at the MCG last round playing Carlton. We were up by 31 points going into the last quarter. About 20 minutes into the last quarter and Carlton were making a run of it and suddenly Fev was off. He jogged off not injured but I couldn't believe it. How naive I was. It stopped Carltons run and we eventually won the game. Ah yes, Carlton ended up with 4 wins and a priority pick. Media dont just look at us, look back over the years and you will see that the AFL has turned a blind eye for years and years because it was convenient to do it. Can someone tweet one of the football stations and remind them about other Clubs instances of tanking. The last thing we want is for the AFL get pushed into an investigation into Melbourne and us perhaps losing picks or worse.

This just seems to be gaining more and more momentum now that certain "legal" entities are coming out asking for an investigation.

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    I am sick of listening to supporters from other Clubs complaining about Melbourne's "tanking". I can rememberin 2007 at the MCG last round playing Carlton. We were up by 31 points going into the last quarter. About 20 minutes into the last quarter and Carlton were making a run of it and suddenly Fev was off. He jogged off not injured but I couldn't believe it. How naive I was. It stopped Carltons run and we eventually won the game. Ah yes, Carlton ended up with 4 wins and a priority pick. Media dont just look at us, look back over the years and you will see that the AFL has turned a blind eye for years and years because it was convenient to do it. Can someone tweet one of the football stations and remind them about other Clubs instances of tanking. The last thing we want is for the AFL get pushed into an investigation into Melbourne and us perhaps losing picks or worse.

    This just seems to be gaining more and more momentum now that certain "legal" entities are coming out asking for an investigation.

    This tanking business is one of those truths that dares not speak its name. Every team in a position to gain advantage from it has done it. The AFL know all about it and turn a blind eye. Now the media are on or backs for it. Kick us harder whilst we are down they will. As the AFL is the be and end all of Football I doubt anything will happen. But knowing our dumb luck we could go down as the first club to be formally scrutinised or punished for this.

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    This tanking business is one of those truths that dares not speak its name. Every team in a position to gain advantage from it has done it. The AFL know all about it and turn a blind eye. Now the media are on or backs for it. Kick us harder whilst we are down they will. As the AFL is the be and end all of Football I doubt anything will happen. But knowing our dumb luck we could go down as the first club to be formally scrutinised or punished for this.

    I was glad to see Greg Baums article this morning. He even mentioned the holier than thou Collingwood. Do we think that the AFL are going to punish a majority of the teams for tanking.

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    I was glad to see Greg Baums article this morning.

    Thank goodness the media still has people like Greg Baum and Gerard Healy, who bring rationality to the world. The troubling aspect of things is that Adrian Anderson seems to always feel the need react on all the other journo's continued garbage and insinuations.

    In regard to Carlton, Brett Ratten took over as caretaker coach, lost 7 out of 7 games and then won himself the job. Enough said. No disrespect to Ratten - I think he has a great footy brain and seems to have turned into a very good coach - but the point being that certain journalists this week have been on a crusade to get the Demons, yet conveniently forget all the teams that preceded us who received PP's.

    Let's not forget that a) the rule used to give clubs a PP after only ONE season with less than 5 wins (the rule is now two seasons); and B) Melbourne lost out significantly by not 'tanking' (poor choice of word) against Carlton in Rd 22, 2007.

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