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I get your point, and probably agree with you, but in the end if you miss the finals it's never because of the final round and always because of the entire 22-game season.

In the above scenario, you can be dirty on the team resting its players, but truth is if you'd won one more game earlier in the year you wouldn't have been in that position.

That said, there is undoubtedly an issue with the resting of players.

So where do you stand?

You get one opinion - you're either for it or you're against it.

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    So where do you stand?

    You get one opinion - you're either for it or you're against it.

    My opinion is that there is an issue with this resting of players in the final round and that something should be done about it (though I'm not quite sure exactly what, yet. Structuring the season to have a week off between the final round and the first week of finals might help.).

    I just didn't agree with your scenario. It would be disappointing of course, but if you miss the finals by percentage then you should equally be upset about what happened in the previous 21 games than what happened in the final one.

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    My opinion is that there is an issue with this resting of players in the final round and that something should be done about it (though I'm not quite sure exactly what, yet. Structuring the season to have a week off between the final round and the first week of finals might help.).

    I just didn't agree with your scenario. It would be disappointing of course, but if you miss the finals by percentage then you should equally be upset about what happened in the previous 21 games than what happened in the final one.

    So we have to win an extra game or 2 now to guard against manipulation by other teams - that's different. Why should we have to adjust for corruption?

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    My opinion is that there is an issue with this resting of players in the final round and that something should be done about it (though I'm not quite sure exactly what, yet. Structuring the season to have a week off between the final round and the first week of finals might help.).

    I just didn't agree with your scenario. It would be disappointing of course, but if you miss the finals by percentage then you should equally be upset about what happened in the previous 21 games than what happened in the final one.

    There will always be regrets for what happened in those other 21 games - missed goals, silly turnovers, games lost that should have been won etc etc. But it is one thing to regret that "we could have played better and not be on the edge of the 8 (or 4)" and an entirely different thing to being collateral damage of tanking. The team that displaced you could also have done better in the other 21 games - the point is that it didn't have to because its opponents in round 22 were tanking. I reckon you would be the only fan who would find that 'equally upsetting'.

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    Correct. If I'm wrong but looking at the afl ladder...

    If Adelaide had won today would they not have jumped over the Bulldogs & host a home final?????

    Controlling your own destiny????

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