R20 Brisbane v Carlton - Battle for the Spoon

[MilkIt]

It would be a disaster to work this hard all year and not win the first pick.


(From what I've heard pick 2 should get us Weitering anyway, unless Lions snag Dixon)

[madbluboy]

All we need to do is to pick Jones and Viojo-Rainbow, and maybe Johnson (although he does have a go). Then we won't be able to win, no tanking required.

Just a couple of times yesterday when we were getting on top I noticed Murphy and Cripps benched.

[ElwoodBlues1]

I can just see it now. The first ever prosecution for tanking in AFL/VFL history. Lose Weltering, or whoever you guys are after. Lose picks. Get fined. Then we can spend the next 20 years bitching and moaning about this and that. And I'll spend my declining years in a sanatorium in the Pyrenees.

Great.

Settle Paul...we wont get fined for tanking as I dont expect to win even with effort but I also expect some changes that will assist our efforts to secure our preferred draft position.
We deserve the best pick we can get given the last three years and we wouldnt be the first team to manipulate where we finish....

[MilkIt]

Settle Paul...we wont get fined for tanking as I dont expect to win even with effort but I also expect some changes that will assist our efforts to secure our preferred draft position.
We deserve the best pick we can get given the last three years and we wouldnt be the first team to manipulate where we finish....

Players will still have a crack (well, most other teams would) they don't want pick #1 coming in to take their spot in the team. I'd be working my guts out if I was Sam Rowe right now.

[PaulP]

I know tanking is very difficult to prove, and I'm sure the AFL would be very wary of setting a precedent, or opening a can of worms. However, they have it in for us, and they didn't get SOS the first time, so who knows ?

Quite apart from this, I don't like what it says about us as a club. But I've stated this before, so i won't repeat it.

[thrunthrublu]

match of the round

[cimm1979]

we won't get done for tanking because we have stated, from the moment MM got the arse, that our priorities are to expose as much of the list to senior footy as is possible.

We are doing that and getting pumped.

Dogs and saints did it for the last few years, nobody raised an eyebrow.

[Mantis]

match of the round

Don't laugh as it will be. Brisbane didn't do too bad against GCS. This game could be a draw. We have to find a way to lose by enough to secure that first pick.

[thrunthrublu]

Don't laugh as it will be. Brisbane didn't do too bad against GCS. This game could be a draw. We have to find a way to lose by enough to secure that first pick.

we're good at that

[BluePhantom]

Number 1 pick... Isn't that the only way SOS knows how to draft players? 

I thought Brisbane have locked in Schache?