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Tanking made easy.

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From SEN article, ‘North Melbourne and West Coast have opened talks about relocating their Round 18 game from Queensland to Perth.   It's a move that is sure to anger other finals-bound clubs.’

Obviously promises to be a bigger percentage booster for WC than they’d otherwise expect, and a bigger percentage loser for North. (Even though it’s not a true home game that North will be selling.) So if North’s percentage takes a bigger hit, it will possibly compromise how clubs finish at the bottom of the ladder. If North happen to gain another win by round 18, compared to Sydney and Hawthorn, then draft picks 2-4 will be decided by percentage.

If only selling ‘home’ games to an interstate club was an option for MFC in their tanking years.

Doesn’t seem to worry Garry Lyon. “There’s no fairness in what’s going on at the moment. I don’t mind it.”  So, we should just accept this competition is entitled to further disregard the pretence of integrity? Who’d have thought.

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    Agreed, horrible can of worms to open. But it's the AFL they can just make it up as they go.

     

    I honestly believe I will be following soccer in my lifetime as the number 2 sport in this country

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    I’m sure Gil Mc will go for it. It’s a biased comp setup to assist the rich and powerful. Why not continue the theme.
     

    Hey, but only the Dees have ever tanked !! Not those many many clubs who have players undergo surgery “early” with 3-4 rounds to go and then not surprisingly lose those 3-4 games. Btw Crows are not tanking. They are shizzzzzenholfen 

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    We sold games to Brisbane for years which really annoyed a lot of clubs (that win in 2002 was something special though!). Never in season though, I suppose it’s all compromised so whatever. 

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    1 hour ago, napster said:

    From SEN article, ‘North Melbourne and West Coast have opened talks about relocating their Round 18 game from Queensland to Perth.   It's a move that is sure to anger other finals-bound clubs.’

    Obviously promises to be a bigger percentage booster for WC than they’d otherwise expect, and a bigger percentage loser for North. (Even though it’s not a true home game that North will be selling.) So if North’s percentage takes a bigger hit, it will possibly compromise how clubs finish at the bottom of the ladder. If North happen to gain another win by round 18, compared to Sydney and Hawthorn, then draft picks 2-4 will be decided by percentage.

    If only selling ‘home’ games to an interstate club was an option for MFC in their tanking years.

    Doesn’t seem to worry Garry Lyon. “There’s no fairness in what’s going on at the moment. I don’t mind it.”  So, we should just accept this competition is entitled to further disregard the pretence of integrity? Who’d have thought.

    In a perverse way it makes sense but only if you assume WC plays their first final in WA.

    Wheels within wheels.

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    If the AFL allow this I'd be staggered. 

    Imagine the cashed up Eagles every year offering clubs money to play games in WA, or the Tigers paying clubs to play at the G.

    It would further reduce the integrity of a competition that has very little.

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    Another reason as to why this season is an absolute joke.

    The fact that in round 6 we were originally scheduled to play Richmond, and then Fremantle and then finally Gold Coast tells me all I need to know about this season.

    Or what about that Monday in late June when the AFL re-scheduled our opponents on 6 days notice.

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    6 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    I’m sure Gil Mc will go for it. It’s a biased comp setup to assist the rich and powerful. Why not continue the theme.
     

    Hey, but only the Dees have ever tanked !! Not those many many clubs who have players undergo surgery “early” with 3-4 rounds to go and then not surprisingly lose those 3-4 games. Btw Crows are not tanking. They are shizzzzzenholfen 

    North Melbourne are giving an absolute masterclass in tanking, it's one of the greatest tanking performances the world has ever seen.

    The Crows while Shyzenhouzen are also giving a world class performance of their own in the tanking stakes. Currently placing their best players in Rory Laird , Daniel Talia and Brad Crouch away for weeks to guarantee the spoon. 

     

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    No, no their not tanking not at all?

    As we know if this had been us, the AFL would have made this the worst thing a team could do, shame the hell out of them.

    Any other team it's ok if we make it sound like we have to "relocate the game''?

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    11 hours ago, Win4theAges said:

    North Melbourne are giving an absolute masterclass in tanking, it's one of the greatest tanking performances the world has ever seen.

    The Crows while Shyzenhouzen are also giving a world class performance of their own in the tanking stakes. Currently placing their best players in Rory Laird , Daniel Talia and Brad Crouch away for weeks to guarantee the spoon. 

     

    Yes I agree. It’s double standards all round 

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    13 hours ago, Win4theAges said:

    North Melbourne are giving an absolute masterclass in tanking, it's one of the greatest tanking performances the world has ever seen.

    The Crows while Shyzenhouzen are also giving a world class performance of their own in the tanking stakes. Currently placing their best players in Rory Laird , Daniel Talia and Brad Crouch away for weeks to guarantee the spoon. 

     

    No they could not win even with all there best players playing early in the year, saying teams are tanking is a flawed  argument,one of the main games they pointed to Melbourne tanking was the Richmond game where we actually lost after the siren.

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