LostDoggy
01-10-2009, 10:21 AM
Hey Andrew, how long is your nose going to get before all of this is over?
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AFL gets 'please explain' over tanking
Jason Dowling | October 1, 2009
http://www.theage.com.au/news/rfnews/afl-gets-please-explain-over-tanking/2009/09/30/1253989953866.html
VICTORIA'S gambling regulator is not satisfied with the AFL's response to queries about whether sides are ''tanking'' - deliberately setting out to lose - so they can gain higher draft picks.
The Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation had asked the AFL for assurances that tanking was not occurring. The AFL formally responded but the commission said it would go back to the AFL over several matters raised in the response.
''We want to get some clarification about some issues,'' said executive commissioner Peter Cohen. AFL head Andrew Demetriou has repeatedly denied that clubs deliberately underperform to gain better draft picks, putting him at odds with nearly every commentator on the game.
The commission has the power to set gambling conditions, such as banning betting on teams at the bottom of the ladder, which have the greatest incentive to tank.
It also has the power to revoke the AFL's status as a sports-controlling body, stripping it of its power to demand money for betting on games.
Former Melbourne player Russell Robertson last week told a function in Hobart that the tanking issue had disgruntled several Demons players at the end of the 2009 season.
''I'm not saying we tanked, I'm just saying players were played out of position,'' he said. ''We've got a centre-half forward playing in the ruck, we've got our backline playing in our forward line, we've got our forward line playing in the backline. It is not hard to figure it out.
''You can't blame the coach [Dean Bailey]. It is more just the way the AFL is at the moment …''
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AFL gets 'please explain' over tanking
Jason Dowling | October 1, 2009
http://www.theage.com.au/news/rfnews/afl-gets-please-explain-over-tanking/2009/09/30/1253989953866.html
VICTORIA'S gambling regulator is not satisfied with the AFL's response to queries about whether sides are ''tanking'' - deliberately setting out to lose - so they can gain higher draft picks.
The Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation had asked the AFL for assurances that tanking was not occurring. The AFL formally responded but the commission said it would go back to the AFL over several matters raised in the response.
''We want to get some clarification about some issues,'' said executive commissioner Peter Cohen. AFL head Andrew Demetriou has repeatedly denied that clubs deliberately underperform to gain better draft picks, putting him at odds with nearly every commentator on the game.
The commission has the power to set gambling conditions, such as banning betting on teams at the bottom of the ladder, which have the greatest incentive to tank.
It also has the power to revoke the AFL's status as a sports-controlling body, stripping it of its power to demand money for betting on games.
Former Melbourne player Russell Robertson last week told a function in Hobart that the tanking issue had disgruntled several Demons players at the end of the 2009 season.
''I'm not saying we tanked, I'm just saying players were played out of position,'' he said. ''We've got a centre-half forward playing in the ruck, we've got our backline playing in our forward line, we've got our forward line playing in the backline. It is not hard to figure it out.
''You can't blame the coach [Dean Bailey]. It is more just the way the AFL is at the moment …''