for us to deliberately lose games this season in order to remain eligible for the priority pick.
forget for a moment Tom Scully, forget the second pick in the top 5. Forget the draft all together. Everyone is talking about the "upside of tanking" but lets look at the downside because the potential consequences of deliberately loosing games far outweighs the gains of having 2 top 5 picks in this draft.
you thought Carlton were screwed after their salary cap rorting? just wait till the AFL gets through with us for match fixing - because that's what tanking is. regardless of the reasons, tanking is match fixing and in a professional sports competition those who partake in it can face fines, bans and even criminal charges.
were we to tank and then be found out historical precedence in other sports gives the AFL a range of punishments they could implement. and those boys in the afl head office would have a field day deciding how to systematically destroy our club.
Carlton received a $980,000 fine and a 2 year ban from the first and second rounds of the national draft for cheating the salary cap, quite a hefty penalty . now lets look at what other professional sports leagues have done to penalise match fixing before we consider what the AFL would do to us
2006 Series A (italy) - Juventus, AC Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina are suspected of match fixing by selecting favourable referees. Juventus is stripped of it's titles, and banned from competing in the European club championships. all clubs except AC Milan are relegated to Serie B
1998 Cricket - Waugh and Shane Warne are fined for revealing pitch and weather information to a bookie
2005 Brazil - two football referees, Edílson Pereira de Carvalho (a member of FIFA's referee staff) and Paulo José Danelon, had accepted bribes to fix matches. Soon afterwards, sport authorities ordered the replaying of 11 matches in the country's top competition, the Campeonato Brasileiro, that had been worked by Edílson. Both referees have been banned for life from football and face possible criminal charges
2005 Bundesliga scandal - while this was orchestrated outside of any clubs knowledge and carried out by referees it's important to note that Hamburger SV received compensation worth up to €2 million for its forced early exit from the DFB Cup and compensation arrangements are planned for certain other teams affected.
looking at these examples it's clear to see that it is a serious offence. any player, coach or club official found guilty faces bans, fines and criminal action. the club would also face fines, loss of draft picks and possibly be banned from playing for a season or more. with that in mind it's very possible that sponsors would abandon us and how many out of contract players are going to want to stay with us, and how are we going to pay the players still with us?
so great we get Scully and some other 18 year old, don't think they're going to be the answer to our problems
alarmist maybe, but if you want to tank you have to be prepared to accept all the consequences. so ask your self, is it worth it?
forget for a moment Tom Scully, forget the second pick in the top 5. Forget the draft all together. Everyone is talking about the "upside of tanking" but lets look at the downside because the potential consequences of deliberately loosing games far outweighs the gains of having 2 top 5 picks in this draft.
you thought Carlton were screwed after their salary cap rorting? just wait till the AFL gets through with us for match fixing - because that's what tanking is. regardless of the reasons, tanking is match fixing and in a professional sports competition those who partake in it can face fines, bans and even criminal charges.
were we to tank and then be found out historical precedence in other sports gives the AFL a range of punishments they could implement. and those boys in the afl head office would have a field day deciding how to systematically destroy our club.
Carlton received a $980,000 fine and a 2 year ban from the first and second rounds of the national draft for cheating the salary cap, quite a hefty penalty . now lets look at what other professional sports leagues have done to penalise match fixing before we consider what the AFL would do to us
2006 Series A (italy) - Juventus, AC Milan, Lazio and Fiorentina are suspected of match fixing by selecting favourable referees. Juventus is stripped of it's titles, and banned from competing in the European club championships. all clubs except AC Milan are relegated to Serie B
1998 Cricket - Waugh and Shane Warne are fined for revealing pitch and weather information to a bookie
2005 Brazil - two football referees, Edílson Pereira de Carvalho (a member of FIFA's referee staff) and Paulo José Danelon, had accepted bribes to fix matches. Soon afterwards, sport authorities ordered the replaying of 11 matches in the country's top competition, the Campeonato Brasileiro, that had been worked by Edílson. Both referees have been banned for life from football and face possible criminal charges
2005 Bundesliga scandal - while this was orchestrated outside of any clubs knowledge and carried out by referees it's important to note that Hamburger SV received compensation worth up to €2 million for its forced early exit from the DFB Cup and compensation arrangements are planned for certain other teams affected.
looking at these examples it's clear to see that it is a serious offence. any player, coach or club official found guilty faces bans, fines and criminal action. the club would also face fines, loss of draft picks and possibly be banned from playing for a season or more. with that in mind it's very possible that sponsors would abandon us and how many out of contract players are going to want to stay with us, and how are we going to pay the players still with us?
so great we get Scully and some other 18 year old, don't think they're going to be the answer to our problems
alarmist maybe, but if you want to tank you have to be prepared to accept all the consequences. so ask your self, is it worth it?
here I was thinking Lee Harvey Oswald was the killer! 
