Which premiership side is the best of the last four years?

[BF Tiger]

This implies you've already done it and I'm wrong.

Was I?

I haven’t done the sums but I suspect you’re right considering in your cherry-picked time frame the Eagles made two GFs and the Tigers had a shocker 2016.

Might be different if the period was extended by a season each way. But you do the sums.

Edit: I asked you to "do the sums" because you have put forward an easily proven or disproven statement but have not really done anything to support your statement... just go to wikipedia and or afltables and I'm sure the answer will be there.

 

[Dr Awkward]

Would be good to see a prime Richmond and prime WC play off in the granny this year.

West Coast have a great balance to the list, great talls.

Richmond had consistently very large winning margins in all our finals in 2017 and 2019 so that is in our favour.

 

[dean33]

True. I'm still pissed we blew that prelim.

We are as well.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

I suspect you’re right considering in your cherry-picked time frame the Eagles made two GFs and the Tigers had a shocker 2016.

Might be different if the period was extended by a season each way.

It wasn't really an Eagles vs Richmond thing (shock, horror!) more refuting the suggestion that we "snatched one" in 2018 (the implication being we didn't deserve it) when it capped four years of sustained success, including 2 Grand Finals. And we're one of the favourites this year so haven't become a "middle of the table" team since then either (although underperformed last year, no doubt).

 

[BF Tiger]

It wasn't really an Eagles vs Richmond thing (shock, horror!) more refuting the suggestion that we "snatched one" in 2018 (the implication being we didn't deserve it) when it capped four years of sustained success, including 2 Grand Finals. And we're one of the favourites this year so haven't become a "middle of the table" team since then either (although underperformed last year, no doubt).

I mostly disagree with sides “snatching” premierships. I think it is a pretty unfair thing to say against about a side that has won against other in-form teams.

This entire Eagles v Tigers things irks me. Sure I’ll jump in time to time but do know I think the Eagles were worthy in 2018, and appreciated the result even more because it was Collingwood you beat.

 

[Hank Heavenly]

It wasn't really an Eagles vs Richmond thing (shock, horror!) more refuting the suggestion that we "snatched one" in 2018 (the implication being we didn't deserve it) when it capped four years of sustained success, including 2 Grand Finals. And we're one of the favourites this year so haven't become a "middle of the table" team since then either (although underperformed last year, no doubt).

are you meaning to say this isn't a dick measuring contest....

 

[BF Tiger]

are you meaning to say this isn't a dick measuring contest....

They have length, we have girth.

 

[Final Siren]

It wasn't really an Eagles vs Richmond thing (shock, horror!) more refuting the suggestion that we "snatched one" in 2018 (the implication being we didn't deserve it) when it capped four years of sustained success, including 2 Grand Finals. And we're one of the favourites this year so haven't become a "middle of the table" team since then either (although underperformed last year, no doubt).

Yep. The sums (2015-2018):

+------------------------+------+------------+---------------+---------+-------------+------------+
| name                   | wins | finals_won | finals_played | pts_for | pts_against | percentage |
+------------------------+------+------------+---------------+---------+-------------+------------+
| West Coast             |   66 |          6 |             9 |    9198 |        7490 |   122.8037 |
| Sydney                 |   64 |          3 |             9 |    8780 |        7063 |   124.3098 |
| Hawthorn               |   61 |          3 |             8 |    9124 |        7721 |   118.1712 |
| Adelaide               |   60 |          4 |             7 |    9619 |        7922 |   121.4214 |
| Richmond               |   60 |          4 |             6 |    8321 |        7414 |   112.2336 |
| Geelong                |   58 |          2 |             6 |    8671 |        7280 |   119.1071 |
| Greater Western Sydney |   57 |          3 |             7 |    8783 |        7515 |   116.8729 |
| Western Bulldogs       |   52 |          4 |             5 |    7876 |        7779 |   101.2469 |
| Port Adelaide          |   48 |          0 |             1 |    8081 |        7216 |   111.9873 |
| Collingwood            |   45 |          2 |             4 |    8182 |        7798 |   104.9243 |
| North Melbourne        |   45 |          2 |             4 |    8267 |        8210 |   100.6943 |
| Melbourne              |   45 |          2 |             3 |    8085 |        7956 |   101.6214 |
| Fremantle              |   38 |          1 |             2 |    6730 |        8038 |    83.7273 |
| Essendon               |   33 |          0 |             1 |    7140 |        8453 |    84.4671 |
| St Kilda               |   33 |          0 |             0 |    7179 |        8314 |    86.3483 |
| Gold Coast             |   20 |          0 |             0 |    6475 |        9006 |    71.8965 |
| Carlton                |   19 |          0 |             0 |    6040 |        8652 |    69.8104 |
| Brisbane Lions         |   17 |          0 |             0 |    7029 |        9753 |    72.0701 |
+------------------------+------+------------+---------------+---------+-------------+------------+

Incidentally, West Coast are still on top of this table if you make it 2014-now or 2015-now. Earlier than that, it's Hawthorn. From 2017 onwards, it's Richmond. And from 2016 to now, Richmond and West Coast have the exact same number of wins (65).