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Seeing we like to draw inspiration from the USA, wonder if we’ll ever have a post season lottery for top few draft picks. Would reduce the tanking argument a little and another Night of TV drama for the folks at AFL HQ

Dermie is a [censored] and was just trying divert away from the fact he said Clarko’s coaching had diminished. 

 

Not surprising at all. Controversial comments are his stock in trade. It's all he has to offer


So many possibilities came to mind when I saw the thread title...

The admission itself is quite a letdown.

Tanking! The worst thing a team can ever do. It makes me shiver to remember it, although I tried to fool myself at the time that we weren’t doing it.

Destroy a team’s morale and for what? Tom Scully?

 

The irony is that any result in that game wasn’t going to do much for the participants. The Hawks went from pick 2 to pick 4 and Collingwood’s first pick stands at 37 - the Pies sold their original first pick to GWS Giants last year never thinking they would finish so low. They will struggle to make much impact in this coming draft once they use up most of their points to get father-son Nick Daicos.

39 minutes ago, Kumamoto_Ken said:

So many possibilities came to mind when I saw the thread title...

The admission itself is quite a letdown.

"Yes, I admit it, the carpet doesn't match the drapes"


1 hour ago, Kumamoto_Ken said:

So many possibilities came to mind when I saw the thread title...

The admission itself is quite a letdown.

I too was speculating what he might say - like “I aren’t very bright” 🙄

Personally I think Clarko is coaching for wins just to [censored] with Hawthorns draft position. 😈

Hawthorn tanked for a flag
Collingwood tanked for a flag
West coast tanked for a flag
Carlton tanked to push us down the draft order and outside the priority zone, got Chris Judd.

Then Melbourne tanked and it helped tear the club to pieces.

But as much as I feel we got a raw deal I mostly feel for the players who's careers we really hurt and for us fans, so now is absolutely not the time to care about what the teams currently down the bottom are doing.

Let them all tank forever.

I will say this - North have mixed in a huge period of sheer ineptitude with the ability to draft some really good young players. They now are right on track to be a very good team within 3 years. There's every chance they bounce right passed a whole bunch of the big clubs.


34 minutes ago, DEE fence said:

Personally I think Clarko is coaching for wins just to [censored] with Hawthorns draft position. 😈

Yesterday’s match Vs. Collingwood was just Clarko’s job interview. He gently reminded the Collingwood board that he’s still got a few tricks up his sleeve. Now the Blues board are sweating on Teague in the fear they’ll miss out on Clarkson.

He’s a smart operator.

5 hours ago, roy11 said:

Seeing we like to draw inspiration from the USA, wonder if we’ll ever have a post season lottery for top few draft picks. Would reduce the tanking argument a little and another Night of TV drama for the folks at AFL HQ

Doesn't seem to stop tanking in the NBA

5 hours ago, Ollie fan said:

Destroy a team’s morale and for what? Tom Scully?

We eventually turned Tom Scully into Steven May and left the carcass of Tom Scully for the vultures at Glenferrie Rd to clog a list spot with, so in the end it could be viewed as a win, win.

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