"Business is Business".
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what a load of crap. I do my business ethically and with integrity. Losing to gain an advantage is doing business with no integrity. That's for clubs like Collingwood and Richmond.
Look at the buisness we are in and were we are coming from....
"Imagine the club withouth Murphy, Gibbs or Walker"
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we didn't purposely tank to get those players. We got them because we tried but weren't good enough, hence we got them via fair business with integrity.
Not saying that ain't true, what i am saying is that people wanted to win a few extra games and get players you might not be able to build around....
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Start winning games, and you will see the development of the players speed up in leaps and bounds. West Coast never had to tank to stay at the top. Now that's a club that is a role model.
Not a fair comparison when you conside what westcoast have to work with, and where we are coming from. No club has been delt the hand we were dealt.
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If 5 years at the bottom isn't enough to gain the talent to win a premiership, we are doing something very very wrong. Are you all afraid to make it the hard way? Want to take the easy route by finishing bottom for 5-7 years and then finally win a premiership or two and then tank for another 5-7 years? What a pathetic way to do it.
I just don't think we can afford to take too many chances. We have made too many mistakes in the last 10 years, and we have to make it count this time.....We must rebuild properly.
We won't have to finish bottom for 5 years ever again. Next time we will have our draft picks, and a good list to work with come trade time in the years ahead. Most importantly/hopefully we will have learnt from the past.
Remember it's like we are starting all over again, and the first cut is always the deepest....