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Jesse Christ
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I hope the AFL don't strip us of our recent success!

mauriesy
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Brock went from the apprentices to the masters. He played in the 'Kreuzer Cup' match, Round 22, 2007 and would have seen the Blues' methods. If he's got a real concern about the ethics of tanking, he

Dee Fan
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This is a time when we should be circling the wagons and throwing our support behind the club; God knows there are enough on the outside throwing rocks at us. As the saying goes, it is what it its, w

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Demetriou said tanking doesn't exist. I highly doubt the man with an ego the size of his pay packet is going to be forced in to doing any back flips any time soon. It's also going to be impossible to prove anything conclusively.

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A team of 20 QCs could not prove that we threw games .

"Tanking" is more of an issue in Sports betting.

Picking a development side ahead of a best side available is entirely different to tanking .

This is merely a Melbourne bashing exercise by the press .They cant get enough of it .

Bring it on [censored].

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I'm comfortable with us copping our fair whack as long as Carlton do to. Anything we did to lose, they did better.

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I'm comfortable with us copping our fair whack as long as Carlton do to. Anything we did to lose, they did better.

Exactly right, if we get any form of punishment then it sets a precedent for Carlton and even Richmond to an extent.

Snowball effect

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Brock went from the apprentices to the masters.

He played in the 'Kreuzer Cup' match, Round 22, 2007 and would have seen the Blues' methods. If he's got a real concern about the ethics of tanking, he would have chosen not to go to Carlton.

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The interesting thing would be if DB names names ........goodbye Schwabb Connolly and the Board. Meanwhile McLardy is talking about Cloke!! Yesterday presumably, but this bloke is out of his depth

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I'm comfortable with us copping our fair whack as long as Carlton do to. Anything we did to lose, they did better.

And don't forget Collingwood. Picking up a priority pick in 2005 wasn't an accident.

There won't be any sanctions. It would open up a can of worms that the AFL can ill afford to do.

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Carlton won the grand slam of tanking in 2007 when it lost its last eleven games including the Kreuzer Cup when Travis Johnstone was allowed to roam around the ground unchecked to collect 42 possessions.

Collingwood won their priority picks in 2005 in unusual circumstances when they begam "list managing" players well before the end of the season.

What about the Bulldogs who dropped Matthew Croft for the last game of a season after he kicked five goals. That's not tanking?

Let them investigate those first.

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Carlton won the grand slam of tanking in 2007 when it lost its last eleven games including the Kreuzer Cup when Travis Johnstone was allowed to roam around the ground unchecked to collect 42 possessions.

Collingwood won their priority picks in 2005 in unusual circumstances when they begam "list managing" players well before the end of the season.

What about the Bulldogs who dropped Matthew Croft for the last game of a season after he kicked five goals. That's not tanking?

Let them investigate those first.

West Coast ?

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Carlton won the grand slam of tanking in 2007 when it lost its last eleven games including the Kreuzer Cup when Travis Johnstone was allowed to roam around the ground unchecked to collect 42 possessions.

I was informed by a then Carlton board member about three weeks before that game that the Blues had Judd in the bag and that they needed to give WCE the best possible trade to swing the deal. With a grin he then said that Fevola wouldn't be playing again that season and he didn't.

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Carlton won the grand slam of tanking in 2007 when it lost its last eleven games including the Kreuzer Cup when Travis Johnstone was allowed to roam around the ground unchecked to collect 42 possessions.

Collingwood won their priority picks in 2005 in unusual circumstances when they begam "list managing" players well before the end of the season.

What about the Bulldogs who dropped Matthew Croft for the last game of a season after he kicked five goals. That's not tanking?

Let them investigate those first.

Croft, didn't he sue for that, he had a kicker in his contract for more $ or another season if he played X amount of games that seaon?

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The interesting thing would be if DB names names ........goodbye Schwabb Connolly and the Board. Meanwhile McLardy is talking about Cloke!! Yesterday presumably, but this bloke is out of his depth

As someone said earlier, Jim Stynes is the elephant in the room.

Now that would be an explosive allegation.

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