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GAMBLING PROBE [update MFC cleared]

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Seems you disagree with every AFL team then.

Apart from Sydney, Geelong, North and probably some more..

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    The big difference between tanking and list management.

    List management: you play kids but you don't put a ceiling on what they are allowed to achieve. Sure, you will probably expect them to struggle initially but if they do win then it's onwards and upwards from there (see Essendon 1993 or to a lesser extent Melbourne 1998 for more info).

    Tanking: Playing kids but putting a limit on their development so you can get X pick. The kids can develop but because we want pick 1, 2 etc, they aren't allowed to develop too much.

    History shows which approach works and which one was a disaster.

    I don't understand this at all. Limit on development? How do you do that?

    List management is playing kids, sending players off for surgery early, and retiring players before they need be retired.

    That is what people commonly refer to as 'tanking.'

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    It did us no good.

    Hard work is always a better option Red.

    Yep, always the better option except for Hawthorn, Collingwood and West Coast, who all benefited handsomely from the same strategy. Carlton and Richmond, debateable whether it helped too much...

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    Is there anything the MFC does not get investigated for?

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    Winning

    Sorry I no longer understand what that is?

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