Oh comeon... did you watch the melbourne carlton game for the Kruezer cup end of 07? each teams best ball users were playing wide of each other lol
No I didnt, nor any of the other "did you see"s, thats why I asked. If I remember correctly when KB was coaching in a game against sydney our young onballers (lambert knights free and co) played a similar type of game against sydney (willliams, healy, toohey(?) and co). It actually makes for pretty good footy.
were both sides trying to lose? doesnt realy cut it as evidence of match fixing.
what did the eagles actually do for a number of years where their first priority was to to lose. Who told them to pull their head in and when?
Hawks played the rebuild and list management card to perfection, continually playing kids ahead of experience even when form didnt warrant it, but importantly they got games into kids even though for the first 30 games the club knew they wouldnt win many at all which suited them just fne...
That is not deliberately losing. Its what you need to do when rebuilding and would still happen without draft concessions being available. By that line of thought you could argue that Hardwick is tanking at the moment, but tanking is deliberately losing, not losing as a byproduct of legitimate development actions.
Did you see when collingwood put their players out to pasture in 2005 and got picks 2 & 5, 2 years after they played in 2 GF's in a row?
again legitimate long term action for development.
Did you see what Bailey was doing against us last season? Miller as a ruck rover, petterd as FB, Bate CHB, warnock on a wing, it was a bloody disgrace, did everything humanely possible to give his side the least chance of winning.
Under the circumstances of that game, it would seem that Baily's priority was to lose. Notice I didnt ask you about Melbourne but I'm glad you answered that as to be honest if I'd been asked I wouldnt have been able to nominate the players played out of position - Thanks.
As you say a disgrace, yet you want richmond to behave in a disgraceful manner?
was 1 game and for some reason we almost had the saints until a few timely interchanges from wallace put paid to that.
Can you be a bit more specific on the interchanges and how they cost us the game? (Is that the game wallace referred to when he admitted he sat on his hands)
If clubs are match fixing to gain picks they are not using the system, they are abusing it. The line of thought that others play outside the rules so should we is pretty poor. Should we apply that logic to everyday life and all turn to criminal activities to get ahead, just because some other people do? Or perhaps a little more relevant should Australia put all our athletes on steroids, just because some other athletes take them?
The nature of the rebuilding process that RFC is going through will ensure that we get an early pick this year and probably next year too, without having to lower ourselves to the level of soulless and/or integrity lacking clubs.
If we do actually start winning games next year and climb the ladder, it wont be due to short term top ups or on the back of senior hacks, as in previous years, it will be due to to genuine improvement in the players which is hugely different. Even early this year clubs playing us did not take us lightly and as time goes on that will not change. There will be very few cheap wins for RFC in the near future - any win will be on merit, not because someone took us lightly or on the back of a playing group that has no real improvement left in it, as in the past.
If you need to resort to cheating to win then that is an admission that you are just not good enough to play within the rules and you might as well pack up and go home.
As for grammar, unless it changes what you are trying to say who gives a poo.
