God is an Englishman wrote:In theory it's winnable. Realistically - come on behave! You aint scoring 3 goals in 3 minutes.
Of course the players want to win. Put me in a Millwall shirt or England shirt and I will want to win. More than anyone but we both know I'm not good enough and playing me surely shows they don't want to win.
If an AFL club has a sh*thouse start and is 4-12 win-loss, it's next to impossible to make the finals, but still mathematically possible. They've got rookies and bit part players on their list, so they should wait until it's mathematically impossible to make wholesale changes and try these players out? And Mr Servicable Veteran who's been taking painkilling injections before every game when there was something to play for still has to wreck his body so they can finish 13th instead of 15th rather than being sent off to surgery early?
In all sports with no relegation, when nothing can be salvaged from a season the work begins on the next ASAP to get an edge on everyone else.
Every sport does it, even F1 racing. They might stop modding and improving the current car in favour of improvements for next year.
It's worldwide, it's really not an issue but here in Australia there's a big complex about it and it's called tanking.