{"id":31038,"date":"2016-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/afl-needs-to-guard-against-tanking-accusations\/"},"modified":"2016-06-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T00:00:00","slug":"afl-needs-to-guard-against-tanking-accusations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/afl-needs-to-guard-against-tanking-accusations\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL needs to guard against tanking accusations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Herald Sun and AFL 360\u2019s Mark Robinson has suggested a plan to guard the league against accusations of tanking during certain matches, saying the incentive to lose is sometimes more powerful than the incentive to win.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWhen we have red flag days, I think the AFL should be across them and just ensure that everything strategy-wise is above board,\u201d Mark Robinson told the FIVEAA Sports Show on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if there\u2019s any accusation, the AFL can come out on Monday and Tuesday and say, \u2018No, we assessed this game, this game\u2019s fine,\u2019 and everyone can be at ease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robinson said the incentive to lose was sometimes greater than the incentive to win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you think every club goes out there to win? Of course they don\u2019t. North Melbourne dropped 10 players last year in their final round of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat result was contrived.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN TO MARK ROBINSON HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/267241666&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Robbo said he believed 10 clubs were tanking between 2004 and 2009, and described the 2012\/13 AFL investigation into Melbourne as \u201cramshackle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Melbourne went down for tanking, we \u2013 all of us, the media and the AFL \u2013 we started to scrutinise these games three years after the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an absolutely ramshackle kind of investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AFL didn\u2019t even know what tanking was, but they fined Melbourne, they suspended Dean Bailey for 16 weeks, [but] \u2018No, no but it wasn\u2019t tanking\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to see our game go through that again.<\/p>\n<p>Robbo said under former AFL boss Andrew Demetriou, the word \u2018tanking\u2019 had been erased from the vocab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe described selections as \u2018list management\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that\u2019s what it was transferred to, list management, it used to be called tanking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey got rid of that word out of the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/malcolm-turnbull-s-warning-to-south-australian-voters\">MALCOLM TURNBULL\u2019S WARNING TO SA VOTERS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/caroline-wilson-and-stephen-rowe-battle-over-adelaide-crows-controversy\">CARO WILSON AND STEPHEN ROWE CLASH OVER CROWS CONTROVERSY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Herald Sun and AFL 360\u2019s Mark Robinson has suggested a plan to guard the league against accusations of tanking during certain matches, saying the incentive to lose is sometimes more powerful than the incentive to win. \u201cWhen we have red flag days, I think the AFL should be across them and just ensure that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14680,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-31038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiveaa-sports-show","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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