WESTERN Bulldogs coach Rodney Eade has responded to Richmond coach Terry Wallace's claims that his club has been disadvantaged with this year's draw, given the Tigers play only three interstate sides in Melbourne and travel five times.

He said the Bulldogs are more than happy with their draw that involves seven games outside Victoria, and just three with a home-ground advantage in Melbourne against interstate sides.

"I think the draw is the draw," he said.

"We've played three interstate and we've won them. That's what you're given.

"Everyone can whinge and moan at certain stages, but we're certainly happy with the draw and you make do with what you've got."

A day after Jason Akermanis claimed tanking does occur among AFL clubs, Eade said the League needed to address the “perception” clubs don’t always want to win.

Eade diplomatically suggested Akermanis was supporting pleas to the League to eradicate the suspicion that is bound to surround teams that lose late in the year, and backed the appeal himself in the process.

"I think what [Akermanis] means to say is, he's sort of backing up Mark Harvey that whether there is tanking or not, and I don't think anyone can really assess that because it's not clear cut and it's more of a perception," he said on Wednesday.

"I think maybe the AFL needs to look at that as a perception, because people and generally the media and I've asked you the question and you've said there's a perception; whether that's reality or not, I don't know.

"It's something the AFL could maybe look at.

"Adrian Anderson said no one is going to get a priority pick this year, but if there's four teams on less than four games this year and they get one in the second round and it's a reasonable draft, and teams are jostling for first pick versus fourth pick.

"Is first pick with [Nick] Naitanui going to be better than pick three or four? Probably."