AFL boss Andrew Demetriou is confident tanking does not exist. Picture: Wayne Ludbey Source: Herald Sun
WHILE ever the AFL has a draft, there will be an incentive to come last.
With the country's best young player in its ranks, a team can build both premiership and advertising campaigns for years to come.
AFL boss Andrew Demetriou might believe there's no such thing as tanking in his competition, but the prize is too great for clubs to resist.
Injured players might be sent off for surgery early, backs shuffled into the forward line in the name of experimentation.
Tanking, or whatever you want to call it, won't be eradicated unless the AFL embraces a lottery system for its draft, like the NBA in the US.
The world's premier basketball competition puts the bottom five teams into a draw to find out who first gets the No.1 pick. Fifth last or dead last, you are the same chance to claim the nation's best young player.
In reality, running dead to gain draft picks is always going to destroy the winning culture a club needs for success.
Need an example?
Try the Sydney Swans.
John Longmire's men have shown that you don't have to hit the bottom to reach the top.
Living in the ultra competitive Sydney sporting market means the Swans can't afford to drop out of the finals race for an extended period.
More than that, Longmire's predecessor Paul Roos showed you can cleverly recruit from outside the draft.
Sydney adopted the Moneyball method of signing undervalued players from other clubs. Look at Josh Kennedy, Ted Richards, Rhyce Shaw, Mitch Morton, Ben McGlynn and Shane Mumford.
Other countries aren't off limits, either. They have Mike Pyke from Canada.
Combined with a "no dickheads" policy, strong player leadership and a team-before-the-individual attitude and the Swans have produced the recipe for premiership success at the right time for Demetriou.
The AFL boss will be hoping clubs have been paying more attentions to the Swans' methods than Tuesday's conclusion to the tanking investigation, which was very difficult to comprehend.
Melbourne were "cleared" of tanking but hit with the biggest single fine ($500,000) in the game's history.
The former coach and football manager were suspended for very serious actions that were deemed "prejudicial to the interest of the AFL".
But neither the club's CEO nor the board had any knowledge of what they did.
Then came this statement from the AFL boss.
"I have no evidence to support the view that tanking exists," Demetriou said. "If you are asking me the question that has been asked before: Do I think players purposely go out to lose games?"I've said in my heart of hearts I don't believe that ever to be the case."
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