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Typical richmond FW... get the rock you crawled out from under a few yrs ago ready again.West Coast vs Hawks today, both teams on two wins and a percentage of 60.
The loser will be the favourite to get the number 1 draft pick.
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God, I hope so. Nothing wrong with tanking.
Serious question, how much do we need to win by to shut up the moronic 'Hawks are tanking' crowd?
Ten goals? More?
I reckon Richmond tanked against Essendon.
Why did Buckley part ways with the club, then?Funny how Collingwood never copped this much crap for "tanking" back in 2021 when Nick Daicos was in the draft pool and the Pies needed to maximise their draft points to match any bidding from the bottom teams.
The Pie's recent history...
2018... 3rd... lost QF v WCE... won SF v GWS... won PF v Rich... lost GF v WCE
2019... 4th... won QF v Geel........................... lost PF v GWS
2020... 8th... won EF v WCE... lost SF v Geel
2021...17th...definitely not tanking. Selected Nick Daicos with the 4th pick.
2022... 4th... lost QF v Geel... won SF v Freo... lost PF v Syd
2023... 1st... 8 wins, 1 loss... premiership favourites.
This is actually the TEXTBOOK definition of tanking. The Pies have been a perennial finalist... a talent-laden team in premiership contention every year since 2018. For some reason they imploded early in 2021, sacked their coach, raised the white flag and played the entire season with the handbrake on... Sheer coincidence that a generational talent was available to them later that year under the Father-Son rule if they could the match the opposition bid.
Spot on. 2021 was a trainwreck.It was just one thing after another. The trade period fiasco, Eddie having to quit after his response to the Do Better report, the speculation around JDG's legal issues, Buckley resigning in the middle of the year and the list goes on.Why did Buckley part ways with the club, then?
If it was all part of the plan, nudge nudge wink wink, they'd have been overjoyed with him successfully losing and would have given him an extension....
Sounds like a lot of excuses...Spot on. 2021 was a trainwreck.It was just one thing after another. The trade period fiasco, Eddie having to quit after his response to the Do Better report, the speculation around JDG's legal issues, Buckley resigning in the middle of the year and the list goes on.
Been watching footy for over 60 years and can’t remember a season with 3 clubs as shite as WC, Hawks and NM. It’s like 2013 but with 3 Melbourne teams in the comp.
Sounds like a lot of excuses...
You still had the same talented players on your list who were good enough to win finals in 2020 and 2022
How come they couldn't be arsed trying in 2021 when things went sour? You do realise this is the actual definition of tanking?
e.g. Nick Kyrgios, good enough to make the final of any tournament he enters... But he wakes up one day with a hangover, or just isn't feeling it for some reason... Loses the first set against some journeyman no-hoper in the 1st round... Gets a few bad line calls... Argues with the umpire... argues with the crowd... and then doesn't give a rat's arse, quits running, tries to lace winners with every forehand, serves double faults and loses 0-6 in the final set.
That's tanking.
Which is what Collingwood did in 2021.
It's not tanking when a crappy tennis player loses in straight sets or when a crappy football team loses and finishes down in the cellar. That's just being bad. There's nothing manufactured about it. People keep saying that us trading Tom Mitchell and Jaeger O'Meara means we're tanking, but we had the worst midfield in the AFL last year with those two. Our midfield is better this year with the young blokes in the guts. We're just a really bad team right now. Everyone has seen this coming for a long time and predicted us spooners every year for the past 3 seasons. Our current level of mediocrity is due to 10 years of bad recruiting. It's not the result of us trading 2 ageing, ineffective midfield plodders.
Been watching footy for over 60 years and can’t remember a season with 3 clubs as shite as WC, Hawks and NM. It’s like 2013 but with 3 Melbourne teams in the comp.
Hope you are not a maths teacher.both have only won one game.West Coast vs Hawks today, both teams on two wins and a percentage of 60.
The loser will be the favourite to get the number 1 draft pick.
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Nah... 2012 was way worse, but you weren't paying attention. (Too busy cheering for the Hawks )Been watching footy for over 60 years and can’t remember a season with 3 clubs as shite as WC, Hawks and NM. It’s like 2013 but with 3 Melbourne teams in the comp.