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I just want us to avoid the spoon. Knowing us, we are in with a show this week so I'm not so sure about tanking.
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Yeh no tanking thanks. But I do believe Sandi and Pav deserve a break.
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I'm pretty sure your boys won't get the spoon. I very much doubt we can beat Carlton, let alone Saints in the last round.
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I would have loved to see Bailey contrive a loss against us yesterday if you had accidentally won against Richmond...
That would have been some spectacle
As stated before unless we were really tanking yesterday which would've been stupid given our win last week, we have no chance of beating Essendon who beat the Saints or Geelong away.
Melbourne seemed to have played out the season perfectly keeping all their picks and showing real good signs against us and richmond along with a few other credible efforts.
I just hope a statement is made on Thursday arvo and come Sunday some of them show some semblence of a fight. I think the only one's who showed any fight on Sunday were Mayne, Suban and a few of the others in very rare patches.
Melbourne seemed to have played out the season perfectly keeping all their picks and showing real good signs against us and richmond along with a few other credible efforts.
I just hope a statement is made on Thursday arvo and come Sunday some of them show some semblence of a fight. I think the only one's who showed any fight on Sunday were Mayne, Suban and a few of the others in very rare patches.
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No tanking needed.
Geez... some supporters are a bit fair weather.
Geez... some supporters are a bit fair weather.
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Wiz - IMO we are most likely going to end up with Morabito whether we have pick 3 or pick 5; hence we should give it our all to try and win.
Posts like the OP make me uncomfortable. I mean you might want in your heart to lose for a better draft pick but it's akin to liking The Spice Girls or someone like that, you aren't going to admit it to anyone.
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I'd be very happy with Morabito, living in SA I doubt you've ever seen much of him before?
Also it's LOSE not LOOSE you flog.
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Fremantle don't tank, we anchor 
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Fremantle don't tank, we anchor
Classic!
Nah, just kidding. You guys will beat the bombers next week with Ryder out. Sandilands will kill Bellchambers, i mean literally kill Bellchambers. A winning culture needs to be installed at Freo and given this draft isn't really that flash, the difference between third and fifth pick can't be that great: GO THE WIN. Losing solves nothing, look at Richmond. They've been losing for twenty years and still can't even make the top eight.
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No way in hell would we tank. Screw the draft for a second here. We want a winning culture at the club, not a culture that encourages losing for draft picks.
Seriously another effort like yesterday and I will have a heart attack considering I gave one all-mighty spray in the 4th quarter yesterday.
Seriously another effort like yesterday and I will have a heart attack considering I gave one all-mighty spray in the 4th quarter yesterday.
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Only two more weeks of tanking to go! j/k
It's all a bit irrelevant really... In the next two games, we can finish as high as 13th or as low as 16th. This means we still pick up someone in the top 5 of the National Draft. [shrugs] Whoopie! That player will still be a good player anyway (hopefully). We don't get a priority pick so we don't get two picks in the second round... So what's the point of losing the last two?
It's been well discussed on BF that pick 7 is the lucky pick in the draft. Brisbane took Daniel Rich, we grabbed Rhys Palmer, and Geelong Joel Selwood. The first player we pick, will still be top-notch player. So I wouldn't stress too much.
Next year, this whole tanking topic will be null and void, cos the priority pick concession will be suspended for the year. Just to put things into perspective.... If we finish last on the ladder next year, we'll be more than grateful to get pick 4, cos the Gold Coast will grab picks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15. [ref: http://www.afldraftinfo.com/2009/04/gc17.html]
It's all a bit irrelevant really... In the next two games, we can finish as high as 13th or as low as 16th. This means we still pick up someone in the top 5 of the National Draft. [shrugs] Whoopie! That player will still be a good player anyway (hopefully). We don't get a priority pick so we don't get two picks in the second round... So what's the point of losing the last two?
It's been well discussed on BF that pick 7 is the lucky pick in the draft. Brisbane took Daniel Rich, we grabbed Rhys Palmer, and Geelong Joel Selwood. The first player we pick, will still be top-notch player. So I wouldn't stress too much.
Next year, this whole tanking topic will be null and void, cos the priority pick concession will be suspended for the year. Just to put things into perspective.... If we finish last on the ladder next year, we'll be more than grateful to get pick 4, cos the Gold Coast will grab picks 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, and 15. [ref: http://www.afldraftinfo.com/2009/04/gc17.html]
Agreed Trengove is awesome though I think he might go to the Dee's at pick 2.
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