These things are said just about every season about some non-Vic teams, in particular those in the non-traditional Aussie Rules states.I've only just started reading this but the AFL held an inquiry when the Vic teams were in a premiership drought so why isn't it holding an inquiry for the interstate teams that are now in a premiership drought?
Interesting quote from the article.....
"An inquiry, he said, would now be set up by the league to determine how this inequity might be resolved. Quite how the league can legislate to give Victorian teams a better chance at winning is difficult to gauge. But it will be one of Demetriou’s great challenges. For if the AFL loses the confidence of Victorian football fans, and loses the state as its beating heart, then the national game will be in tatters"
NSW and QLD seem to be immersed an eternal inquiry, and that's after the Lions and Swans have won approximately one quarter of all premierships between them in the last 20 or so years.