Do you know for sure that StKilda didn't tank in 2000?
Will it help if the AFL kill Melbourne for it , so that they have to bail them out a couple of years later ( and they wont move them to tassie or let them die )?
Now do you have clear evidence that they tanked?
I was living in Melbourne for three years in the period covered by 2000 and unfortunately we weren't even good enough, to implement any game plan, let alone one to alter the outcome of the game. We were deserving of our ladder position, without any extra assistance.
But if Saints did then, or do now, conduct themselves outside the AFL laws, they very well know the consequences and should be penalised as such.
As VDS66 has already said earlier in this thread, I am not accusing Melbourne of being guilty, but simply saying that if they are found guilty by the AFL, then they should be shown no leniency at all. The rules on this are to stop Carlton like activities and are well known by all clubs and should be strictly enforced.
Melbourne whilst at the bottom of the ladder, is debt free and has enough support to survive. As we all know well enough we live and die by our day to day actions and decisions. This is the time for Melbourne, Crows and whoever else may be found out to be cheating, to line up for their appropriate sanctions.