Mike Sheahan's hopped on the tank bandwagon....AFL must rejig its priority-pick systemMike Sheahan | July 14, 2009 09:05pm
DESPITE its best intentions - honourable intentions, too - the AFL is duty-bound to revisit its draft compensation system. With seven rounds remaining in the home-and-away series, there is more interest in the spots at the bottom of the ladder than the top.
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How can a club turn its back on a system that delivered Nick Riewoldt and Justin Koschitzke to St Kilda in 2000, Jarryd Roughead and Lance Franklin to Hawthorn in 2004, Dale Thomas and Scott Pendlebury to Collingwood in 2005, and Matthew Kreuzer and Chris Judd to Carlton in 2007?
The answer is it can't.
Demetriou says: "Melbourne Football Club, in my view, will do everything it can to win football matches because it needs to win football matches and their own people have said so.
"I happen to think those people are of the highest integrity."
I happen to think Carlton learnt to live with defeat for a period in 2007 because of the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Most Melbourne supporters will do the same.
Time for the AFL to adopt the old saying, God helps those who help themselves.
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