After the AFL spending so much time and funds on the Melbourne tanking issue, then to come up with a non conclusion, leave them with the freedom of the 2012 draft, and at the same time to impose a fine on them for what they apparently "didn't do".
How in hell, and the height of all hypocrisy, could they now turn around and put extra money into their coffers [ ie. return the fine with interest], and dole them out priority picks at the expense of other struggling clubs, who did not set out to rort the system ?
I for one do not buy that Melbourne's problem is its coach. The problem goes far deeper than that, and is a systemic cultural problem.
Are the seeds planted when the club showed no loyalty to a bunch of senior players who gave them a decade or more of loyal service only to be unmercifully dumped, now bearing bitter fruit.