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I don't doubt that it does. To have seen the Lions, Swans and Cats win flags proves that to any of us that were raised in the 70s and 80s.
But I'm starting to think that on a game by game basis, it's making it worse. I'm not saying WCE are tanking, but it's obvious they are not trying to win as much as they might. Can you imagine the odds you could have got on Richmond winning this game at the start of the season?
I don't have any stats to back this up, but it seems to me that while results on a season-by-season basis are evened out, we are getting more and more very one-sided games, caused mostly by teams out of the race for the finals who are beginning to realise they have more to gain at that point by losing.
When I was a kid in the 70s, we would often go to Richmond games and sometimes I would wonder why the Fitzroys, Footscrays and St. Kildas of this world even bothered to turn up - but they did and they were 100% trying to win and sometimes they did pull off the odd surpise.
I'm not trying to devalue our win yesterday ... you can only beat who you're playing and the Tiges did that today in much better fashion than we might have expected. But surely the Weagles were not 100% fair dinkum.
Is the draft to blame for this? Discuss.
But I'm starting to think that on a game by game basis, it's making it worse. I'm not saying WCE are tanking, but it's obvious they are not trying to win as much as they might. Can you imagine the odds you could have got on Richmond winning this game at the start of the season?
I don't have any stats to back this up, but it seems to me that while results on a season-by-season basis are evened out, we are getting more and more very one-sided games, caused mostly by teams out of the race for the finals who are beginning to realise they have more to gain at that point by losing.
When I was a kid in the 70s, we would often go to Richmond games and sometimes I would wonder why the Fitzroys, Footscrays and St. Kildas of this world even bothered to turn up - but they did and they were 100% trying to win and sometimes they did pull off the odd surpise.
I'm not trying to devalue our win yesterday ... you can only beat who you're playing and the Tiges did that today in much better fashion than we might have expected. But surely the Weagles were not 100% fair dinkum.
Is the draft to blame for this? Discuss.