Read this from the Age and the full article from the link below interesting reading all I say go DB.
"Last year, I attended a high level football meeting with AFL officials in a Darwin pool, summoned late one night by that great football eccentric Kevin Sheedy. For those who didn't wish to get in the pool, Sheedy brought togs. Once in the water, we gathered around him like players gathered round coaches in the old days before quarter and half-time breaks became exercises in transmitting the mathematical markers of the game. "Tanking's [censored]," he declared. "I tanked in 1993 and won a premiership."
In 1993, Sheedy dropped a series of Essendon players entitled to believe they had a rightful place in the team and gave their spots to untried youngsters. That is, he didn't play to win in the short term. He looked to the future and saw how he might build. That would now be described as tanking, but who can say Sheedy was wrong? I don't see how any AFL club can be told it is not entitled to adopt that policy at whatever time it chooses, particularly if it is evident they are building for the future.
http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/playing-d...90717-do60.html