Is it actually possible to win a flag as a non-Vic club?
Since clubs have joined the VFL, the only team who has won a premiership without any extra incentives, or lists built from inception draft picks, or benefits from mergers is West Coast in 2006.
- Sydney had COLA which is now gone
-GWS, Freo, GC have never won one.
So, we often look at the little Vic Bias things, but as a whole I think it is next to impossible to win a flag as a non-Vic team. Basically since the 80s, excluding all the interstate flags, with the second best teams mostly Vics, it’s only really 1 in 40 years.
Since clubs have joined the VFL, the only team who has won a premiership without any extra incentives, or lists built from inception draft picks, or benefits from mergers is West Coast in 2006.
- The early West Coast and Adelaide flags were built on the draft picks and State League players.
- Brisbanes only flags were from creating a super merger team with Fitzroy
- Sydney had COLA which is now gone
-GWS, Freo, GC have never won one.
So, we often look at the little Vic Bias things, but as a whole I think it is next to impossible to win a flag as a non-Vic team. Basically since the 80s, excluding all the interstate flags, with the second best teams mostly Vics, it’s only really 1 in 40 years.