Draft tanking?
All this tanking talk made me wonder about another type of possible tanking and dodgy draft dealings - the young players being drafted.
Does this scenario happen often?
Say a young player is spotted by a club when he is 15 or 16 - looks very promising.
He wants to play for that club too. Perhaps the young player and the club are in the same non-Victorian state. The player wants to remain close to family and friends and the club makes the judgement that the player will go in the first round of the draft. The club's problem is that they are usually say a successful top 6 club and the young gun will be gone by their pick.
So they do a quiet deal that the player will play poorly in the season or two before the draft and the club picks the player with a late first round pick or even better, a later pick.
Does this happen often? Is it individual tanking too?
The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.