Syrus
Premiership Player
- Oct 6, 2010
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Need I point out:
1. NAB Cup is not the AFL Home and Away season. That is the first major difference.
2. Effectively every club is doing what St. Kilda is doing this NAB Cup. Melbourne were likely the only if not a select few to have allegedly been involved in tanking at all, let alone in that given season.
I could go on forever to point out the differences between allegedly tanking in the AFL season for better and priority draft picks, and as Watters said himself using the NAB cup for player development and then by extension being uncompetitive in the competition.
If I were a Melbourne supporter, I would take the fact that we tanked on the chin, say "it was a calculated risk and a rule that had to be broken" and hope that we could rebuild for a future. You can't fix the problem until you accept it.
And the double standards continue...
1. So because a team is not playing for points it makes a difference, does it? Or does that only apply when there is a PP incentive?
2. The "because everyone else is doing it" excuse is aparently null and void when it comes to tanking. St Kilda is effectively doing the same thing as Melbourne, by "developing" players, etc and the coach not playing on his merits.
I wont cop anything on the chin, because in the end if this goes to court, it will end embarrassingly for the AFL. The whole scandal has been a farce.