Theres a few things you could do to make it fairer
Anytime anone suggests them itgets howled down
Your suggestion is a good one.
You can pick off some low hanging fruit like that which will appease some of the bleating...but really won’t change anything.
Because we have a compromised handicapped H&A fixture, combined with ground rationalisation the end of H&A rankings are not reflective of best team.
So until that can be fixed, the argument that any team ‘earns’ a home final, let alone GF are flawed.
You then have the concept that Aussie Rules finals have traditionally always just been held at the biggest ground available, which is the same for WAFL and SANFL. Home finals let alone home GFs simply aren’t how the competition was set up.
This again is a nod to English FA Cup system, where early rounds are home or away, but semi finals and final are always held at larger pre-determined stadiums to enable more fans to attend.
The teams from London always ‘favoured’ as didn’t have to travel.
As the competition has evolved from VFL, originally Geelong were ‘shafted’ as they had to travel up the highway to the big smoke for finals...now that is just on a larger scale and the WA teams are ‘shafted’ as on the other side of the continent.
If you want to adopt a true home and away finals format, first need to completely revamp the competition into a conference style so that respective teams are ranked against each other with an equivalent schedule...that way you actually establish if a team actually ‘earns’ a home final.