ThePrez wrote:
there is massive difference between losing and wanting to lose.
this is what myself, and many others, cant understand about your ideals.
i would love to get the 1st Pick, but not at the expense of losing deliberately.
Is there no honour left for the team you support?
There is no honour left, no. This is what this ridiculous system has done. Sure, the never-coulds like St.Kilda are given a hitch and its great for their long suffering supporters to taste some success, but what is it worth? It's hollow. Hollow, hollow, hollow.
But we are not going to change that by winning the next four games. We are not only going to shoot ourselves in the foot, we'll also shoot ourselves in the head.
What do the AFL care for us as a team, our heritage, our pride? What do supporters of other teams care? It's really hard to say this because I feel like I am betraying the spirit and history of Carlton, but we need to redefine our support in alignment with the priveledges, (no matter how [REDACTED] the concepts are), of the current system.
I hate that an unhindered desire to want to smash your opposition week in week out does not exist any more. It's [REDACTED], but it's how it is. And it becomes more obvious later in the season...games involving bottom placed teams, who have a chance to reap all the presents in November, are basically nil-void, cannot be trusted, dubious at best, rubbish, fodder, nothing-games. Thats what this equal market sputum has engendered.
We not going to show anybody anything by hitting some form now. Winning is now a long term concept whereby a strategy of draft manipulation is required. I wish I didn't love Carlton so much because I hate that last sentence.