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Trouto

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There has been a plethora of talk all season about tanking in the AFL, particularly pointing to West Coast and North Melbourne. Last Saturday, Clarko told the tank talkers to GAGF as his team won their final game of the year to get off the bottom of the ladder. Last weekend, West Coast effectively ended the Bulldog's finals push by winning an unlikely game at Docklands. Someone always has to finish last, an unfortunately its West Coast. On the bright side, we get a great draft position and hopefully bounce back.

What is being ignored though, is the only team that has proven to tank in 2023.

Geelong.

There is no chance they didnt say "whelp, we cant make the finals, we wont bother putting a team together for the last game" and proceeded to rule out half their side. This is tanking of the highest order, not seen since Melbourne came out and admitted they were tanking in 2009.

The AFL integrity committee (never have i heard of such an oxymoron statement than "AFL" and "integrity") should open an investigation into the Cat's blatant tanking last round and punish them accordingly but we all know they wont. They didnt look into the Cats winning '07 '09 and '11 flags all juiced up, they are not going to bother with one pissy round of tanking.
 
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There has been a plethora of talk all season about tanking in the AFL, particularly pointing to West Coast and North Melbourne. Last Saturday, Clarko told the tank talkers to GAGF as his team won their final game of the year to get off the bottom of the ladder. Last weekend, West Coast effectively ended the Bulldog's finals push by winning an unlikely game at Docklands. Someone always has to finish last, an unfortunately its West Coast. On the bright side, we get a great draft position and hopefully bounce back.

What is being ignored though, is the only team that has proven to tank in 2023.

Geelong.

There is no chance they didnt say "whelp, we cant make the finals, we wont bother putting a team together for the last game" and proceeded to rule out half their side. This is tanking of the highest order, not seen since Melbourne came out and admitted they were tanking in 2009.

The AFL integrity committee (never have i hear of such an oxymoron statement than "AFL" and "integrity") should open an investigation into the Cat's blatant tanking last round and punish them accordingly but we all know they wont. They didnt look into the Cats winning '07 '09 and '11 flags all juiced up, they are not going to bother with one pissy round of tanking.

Didn't matter anyway.

Scumdogs missed the finals and we are all the better for it.
 

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yes but in the process of throwing the game, got themselves 2 spots lower on the ladder, bettering their draft pics.

Yet still finished ahead of Richmond on the ladder. I call that a win for the Catters
 
pfft, on what charges, numpty?

WC cheating by being too good?
Are you playing dumb? Everyone knows your lot were pumped to the hill in that era. As the legendary late Paul Couch said, Jackovich and Mainwaring came back after preseason looking like superman. Your club has always had a strong drug culture, whether it be performance enhancing or recreational 💪
 
That a very low bar to set.

For Bay shitfights though, it is a God send, otherwise flogs like TT and AP would spend the next 6 months Gloating about how Richmond finished higher on the ladder than Geelong.

You don't deserve to be tarnished by club association with those two clowns, neither does Grin, Postcodes or Avoca ...l :)
 

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Are you playing dumb? Everyone knows your lot were pumped to the hill in that era. As the legendary late Paul Couch said, Jackovich and Mainwaring came back after preseason looking like superman. Your club has always had a strong drug culture, whether it be performance enhancing or recreational 💪
So we are to take the words of a bitter sore loser no flags Paul Couch, but ignore the elephant in the room, Dank, working for the cats for 10 years?
 
So we are to take the words of a bitter sore loser no flags Paul Couch, but ignore the elephant in the room, Dank, working for the cats for 10 years?
You do realise that Geelong was investigated after the supplements saga broke out and was found to be clear of any wrongdoing. Do you believe this was not sufficient and that they should have gone deeper? Or that there was some sort of cover up?
 
You do realise that Geelong was investigated after the supplements saga broke out and was found to be clear of any wrongdoing. Do you believe this was not sufficient and that they should have gone deeper? Or that there was some sort of cover up?

total cover up. Corporate AFL knew that taking premierships off clubs was too much taint to the brand. It was bad enough taking a brownlow off Jobe, even though they knew that the players knew nothing about what they were taking.
 
Fights brewing between 2 drug addled clubs


least when West Coast and Geelong take drugs we bring home the bacon as well....

oh and Jesse Hogan says "hi"
 
So we are to take the words of a bitter sore loser no flags Paul Couch, but ignore the elephant in the room, Dank, working for the cats for 10 years?

Couchy was one of footy's nicest and friendly chap's
I don't know where you got this notion that he was a bitter sour loser. Was gutted learning of his passing tbh
 


least when West Coast and Geelong take drugs we bring home the bacon as well....

oh and Jesse Hogan says "hi"
Leave Jesse out of this …. His time spent living with big Mummy straightened him out ;)
 

total cover up. Corporate AFL knew that taking premierships off clubs was too much taint to the brand. It was bad enough taking a brownlow off Jobe, even though they knew that the players knew nothing about what they were taking.
I can't read that article, but found a similar one on The Age website.

The drug they admitted to using (Actovegin) was a legal substance.

Geelong cooperated fully with the investigation and was not found to have broken any rules.

I'm not quite sure where your wild allegations come from. It seems that your only logic is that Dank was at the club, so it must have happened. Unless there is something I'm missing?

It's really kinda funny hearing this stuff when a number of WC players were actually proven to be regular drug users over 2005-06.
 
For Bay shitfights though, it is a God send, otherwise flogs like TT and AP would spend the next 6 months Gloating about how Richmond finished higher on the ladder than Geelong.

You don't deserve to be tarnished by club association with those two clowns, neither does Grin, Postcodes or Avoca ...l :)
Instead we will have Cheffy or whatever his name is now posting 2000 posts a week about Richmond:sick:
 

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