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Tanking is not just in professional sport. This High School girls game in America created headlines as both Smyrna and Riverdale tried to avoid…
Tanking is not just in professional sport. This High School girls game in America created headlines as both Smyrna and Riverdale tried to avoid…
Tanking. It means something different in sports around the world. In the AFL, it explains why clubs book players in for surgery early, and…
From an on field perspective, the 2013 AFL season was one of the most boring on record. From rounds 13-23 not a single team…
There have been many solutions put forward to decrease incentives for teams finishing at the bottom of the ladder in the midst of the…
Well, that's alright then! I've been so worried lately. I haven't been able to sleep, or eat, or leave the house, as I gnawed…
Everyone complains about the fixture. The coaches say it’s too long, the fans say teams get easy rides, and the broadcasters get angry if…
Come on, does tanking exist? If you asked AFL fans, coaches and the media, the consensus would be yes, most certainly. But if you…
The Australian Football League (AFL) commission can put an end to the topic of tanking by scraping the current draft system and implementing a…
It was most disturbing to learn this week that the AFL will be investigating claims that tanking may have occurred in previous seasons. Really?…
The findings of the controversial Melbourne Demons tanking controversy has been one of the AFL's more bizarre performances. The League remains adamant that Melbourne…
The findings of the controversial Melbourne Demons tanking controversy has been one of the AFL's more bizarre performances. The League remains adamant that Melbourne…
The findings of the controversial Melbourne Demons tanking controversy has been one of the AFL's more bizarre performances. The League remains adamant that Melbourne…
As a passionate Adelaide Crows supporter and lover of AFL, it is disheartening to have tanking splattered across the news again. Thankfully the debate…
As a passionate Adelaide Crows supporter and lover of AFL, it is disheartening to have tanking splattered across the news again. Thankfully the debate…
As a passionate Adelaide Crows supporter and lover of AFL, it is disheartening to have tanking splattered across the news again. Thankfully the debate…
In light of Brock McLean's comments on Monday night’s On The Couch, the ugly issue of tanking has resurfaced in the sea of AFL…
Yesterday what we all already knew became official. Tom Scully will be a GWS Giants player next year. It was a proud day for…
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Adrian Anderson has his head firmly planted in the sand on the issue of tanking. It’s been one week since departing Melbourne coach Dean…
After the sacking of Dean Bailey during the week, the issue of tanking has reared its ugly head yet again; with the AFL still…
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It was the defeat Melbourne had to have. For a second successive season of on-field AFL mediocrity, Melbourne won first choice of the two…
West Coast coach John Worsfold has lamented that whether the AFL's priority pick system stays or not, lower-placed clubs will always come under "tanking"…
For those who have long believed that the suits at AFL House are a bit too full of themselves, the events of the past…
For those who have long believed that the suits at AFL House are a bit too full of themselves, the events of the past…
For those who have long believed that the suits at AFL House are a bit too full of themselves, the events of the past…
Tanking is not just in professional sport. This High School girls game in America created headlines as both Smyrna and Riverdale tried to avoid…