Will The Crows Throw Their First Final So IZAK RANKINE Can Play In The Grand Final?

The Izak Rankine saga continues. Should the Crows throw their first final so he can return for the grand final? We discuss.

The Crows star has copped a 4 game ban meaning his season is likely over. But if the Crows lose their first final, he could return for the grand final. We explain how the finals format works and why teams want those vital home finals. Plus, was the AFL too lenient? We debate whether the precedent of a 5 game ban for using a racial slur should have stood.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Isaac Craakin has found out his suspension finally took five
days from the AFL a bit of back and forth
with the Crows four game suspensions. So what that means
is his season is done unless the Crows lose their

(00:31):
first final, in which case they will end up playing
four finals they hope, all the way to a Grand
Final and he could return for a granny.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Do you think there is potential that the Crows will
throw the game so that he can play in the final.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
No, no, no, no, no way would you do that.
You would risk it.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
So the way that the finals set up is for
those of you that really, you know, don't follow footy
but have an interest. The Crows at the moment, they're
going to finish in the top two for sure, which
means they are going to start the finals with a
home final. We love a home final. Yeah, what an advantage.
You want to win that final? Then you get a
week off, everyone can rest, everyone can recover, and then

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you have another home final and you just got to
win that to get nick granny.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
Even if that happens.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
He's out right, that happens, no Isaac Rankin, But it's
a lot easier for the other two blokes that are
going to be playing.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
So what stood out yesterday? And I actually think the
Crows had a point with Snoop Dogg is going to
be performing at the AFL Grand Final.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Right, let me dispel that rumor.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
The AFL has come out and said they did not
play the Snoop Dogg defense.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
They didn't. Well, why has that made the news?

Speaker 1 (01:37):
So that was reported, and that's been brought up, I
think slightly disingenuously by a lot of people who never
actually listened to Snoop Dogg and didn't care about Snoop
Dogg or any of it aunt until now when it's
suited there.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
But it is a point. It's a point.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Snoop Dogg had a song that people kept pointing to
which mentioned the same word that Isaac used. That song
came out in nineteen ninety eight. I like to think
people can change. He also doesn't see the whole point.
Isn't it that we don't say that anymore?

Speaker 3 (02:01):
It came out like thirty years ago.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
But I mean, yep, you could say it's a double standard,
but it was so long ago that that came out.
He doesn't sing like that anymore, is as Andrew Dillon
said yesterday, a grandfather of philanthropist, Like he's a different bloken.
He's going to sing some watered down versions of a
few of his you know, smoke hooch songs.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
And Isaac's not going to do that again. He made
a mistake.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Is all this stuff in the news obviously about how
he's taking it as well mentally, and he knows he's
done the wrong thing.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
I think that the thing that has come out of
it is the Crows. When they were arguing this case,
well originally AFL wanted five weeks the Crows. It was
referred to as compelling compelling medical submissions. Yeah, compelling medicals,
and everyone was like, okay, well, what's that. We'd love
to know because this has been the biggest story in

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Australia for five days. Let's get some clarity on it.
The compelling medical submission. The AFL wouldn't reveal what it was,
The Crows wouldn't reveal what it was. There are reports
coming out this morning that it's all to do with
Isaac's mental health and that if his season was to
be officially ended getting the five games, no matter what happens,
you're not going to play a granny think it would
be very detrimental to his mental health.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
He hasn't left his house.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I know, which is awful. The whole world's turned on
him and.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Wants the biggest hole in the world to swallow him up.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
I completely understand it, and you have to have sympathy
for someone who made a mistake, of course, and is
now living with that, and we'll live with that for
the rest of his career. He will always be the
person that said that on a football field.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
How I actually think, however, go.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
You make a mistake, you pay the price, and the
price rightly or wrongly.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Don't get me wrong, rightly or wrongly.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
The precedent that the AFL had set was that you
say that word on a football field, it's five games.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
I actually think if he looks at it this way,
he's kind of sparked change, even more so that people
like young kids watching this adults as well have gone, oh, okay,
that word.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Is a bad word. I'm not going to use that again.
He's taught a lesson to everybody.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yet I hope so, and I hope it's not the
other way where people go, what was the word he used?
Let me use that word all the time now, surely
previously use it.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Look, it's yeah. Do you think it's fair? As a
sports guy? Are you happy with the outcome?

Speaker 1 (04:12):
I could talk for so long on this, but we
don't have time to talk about this. I think that
just purely because the precedent was five weeks for saying
this word.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
It has to remain at five weeks.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
And now the AFL has opened up a bit of
a can of worms for themselves that players can come
out and rightly or wrongly, he absolutely will have some
mental health issues. Rightly or wrongly, AFL will now have
people saying, well, I want that discount now because my
player is going to so compelling medical problems