What's been your club's best 5 year period in history?

[Strapping Young Lad]

2 flags is better than 1. But two teams winning a different amount of flags isn’t what’s being compared
when two teams win the same amount of flags why the hell does the sequence matter. That’s the point

If you need it explained to you at this point you will never get it.

There’s a reason back to back flags are revered.

Back to back to back even more so.

 

[PhatBoy]

This is what you fail to comprehend.

There is no tie, when one team has won a threepeat in 4 straight GF’s and the other hasn’t.

And like I said you can shove AA’s and being “more celebrated”.
AA’s soon meant nothing, when a player could win a B&F in a premiership year and not be in the team.

It’s a five year period. What does winning 3 in a row matter.

You won 3 flags and were runner up on another.
We did the same.
So did Brisbane.

We can just as easily turn around and say we were winning for longer. What difference does it make.

 

[PhatBoy]

If you need it explained to you at this point you will never get it.

There’s a reason back to back flags are revered.

Back to back to back even more so.

Because it’s a sign of a great team as they’ve won two flags, would be my gut feel.

 

[Captain_Bender]

With no back to back flags you're really more of a junior dynasty

 

[PhatBoy]

With no back to back flags you're really more of a junior dynasty

Well just have to settle for being able to smack the **** out of you as a team then.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

It’s a five year period. What does winning 3 in a row matter.

You won 3 flags and were runner up on another.
We did the same.
So did Brisbane.

We can just as easily turn around and say we were winning for longer. What difference does it make.

You can tell yourself whatever you want, but it’s ****ing laughable that you put your fingers in your ears and just refuse to accept the reality of a 3peat being a far bigger and better accomplishment than not being able to back it up.

 

[PhatBoy]

You can tell yourself whatever you want, but it’s ****ing laughable that you put your fingers in your ears and just refuse to accept the reality of a 3peat being a far bigger and better accomplishment than not being able to back it up.

Does it make you a better team. It’s not a hard question to answer.

 

[iameviljez]

1955 = Flag
1956 = Flag
1957 = Flag
1958 = Runners Up
1959 = Flag

4 flags from 5 Grand Finals, 5 minor premiers, 82 wins - 19 losses, 2 draws at 80% success rate.

People have forgotten just what an upset 1958 was. Melbourne finished that year 3 games on top, and absolutely belted Collingwood in their first final.

It's right up there with 1998 and 2008 as the biggest Grand Final upsets in the VFL/AFL.

 

[Captain_Bender]

Well just have to settle for being able to smack the **** out of you as a team then.

Not in finals though

 

[BF Tiger]

Competitors in everything (sports, board games, reality TV, economics and finance,...) all over the world: Back-to-back baby!!!
Geelong fans: 2 wins is 2 wins.

Anyway, Richmond's best five-year stretch is 2017-2020 plus either of the year before or after.

 

[PhatBoy]

Not in finals though

We will never know as you were busy propping up the table during the eras being compared, weren’t you.

 

[BERT]

Essendon would be 1946 - 1950

Won flags in 1946, 1949 and 1950. Lost the GF in 1947 by a point and drew in 1948 after kicking 7.27 and then lost the replay.

 

[PhatBoy]

Competitors in everything (sports, board games, reality TV, economics and finance,...) all over the world: Back-to-back baby!!!
Geelong fans: 2 wins is 2 wins.

Anyway, Richmond's best five-year stretch is 2017-2020 plus either of the year before or after.

We’ve won back to back. It doesn’t make our 50s team better than our 2000s team.

 

[Captain_Bender]

We will never know as you were busy propping up the table during the eras being compared, weren’t you.

Richmond has finals wins over Geelong during the 1920s, 30s, 60s, 80s, 2010s and 2020s, that's a century of dominance

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Does it make you a better team. It’s not a hard question to answer.

Of course it makes you a better team.

You’ve gone to the top of the mountain and then when everyone is trying to stop you you’ve gone and done it again TWICE.

 

[Pistol Night]

I mean really? You guys won 4 in a row and you think the best period in Collingwoods history is one where you made 2 grand finals and lost one?

Geelongs is 7-11 though.

• Made 4 Grand Finals
• Made Prelims every year
• 3 premierships
• 2 Brownlows
• 93-17 record

1950-54 was also a good era but not as good as the one above.

Yeah i would of thought 4 flags in a row beats one but we are Pies supporters

 

[Sirlemsip]

Of course it makes you a better team.

You’ve gone to the top of the mountain and then when everyone is trying to stop you you’ve gone and done it again TWICE.

I guess it depends whether you are talking about the 'Club' (Hawthorn/Geelong), or the 'Team' that represented the clubs each year.

Geelong 2007 compared to Geelong 2011 had only 12 players that played both GFs.

Hawthorn 2013 compared to Hawthorn 2015 had 17 players that played both GFs AND the same coach.

 

[Pistol Night]

Richmond has finals wins over Geelong during the 1920s, 30s, 60s, 80s, 2010s and 2020s, that's a century of dominance

Thats like getting 6 roots in your life and claiming to be a pr0n star

 

[PhatBoy]

Richmond has finals wins over Geelong during the 1920s, 30s, 60s, 80s, 2010s and 2020s, that's a century of dominance

Yes and I’m sure based on that fact alone, you would have done it again ‘tween 07-11.

 

[PhatBoy]

Of course it makes you a better team.

You’ve gone to the top of the mountain and then when everyone is trying to stop you you’ve gone and done it again TWICE.

So…. Winning 13-14 makes you better than the team that won 07/09.

If those sides met, you would win, because back to back.

The achievement or status or whatever you want to call it, I can get. The idea of it making an outfit ‘better’ doesn’t resonate at all.

 

[BF Tiger]

We’ve won back to back. It doesn’t make our 50s team better than our 2000s team.

No-one is arguing that. What they’re arguing is B-2-B is seen as a greater achievement than having a gap year between wins, and it’s a concept supported by competitors and fans worldwide in all competitions and formats, apart from, it seems, fans of the Geelong FC.

 

[boncer34]

Of course it makes you a better team.

You’ve gone to the top of the mountain and then when everyone is trying to stop you you’ve gone and done it again TWICE.

Teams only try to stop the reigning premiers?

 

[Pistol Night]

No-one is arguing that. What they’re arguing is B-2-B is seen as a greater achievement than having a gap year between wins, and it’s a concept supported by competitors and fans worldwide in all competitions and formats, apart from, it seems, fans of the Geelong FC.

Were happy with one every 20 years or so you greedy campaigners

 

[Pistol Night]

Teams only try to stop the reigning premiers?

Thats what cost us last year. Bullying

 

[Bunk Moreland]

1946 Premiers
1947 Lost GF by a point
1948 Drew GF (with 15 more scoring shots), lost replay
1949 Premiers
1950 Premiers

(Also lost the 1951 GF by 12 points without Coleman due to suspension)

Coleman, Reynolds and Hutchison were playing together during this period - all designated legends in the hall of fame