What if a side won the premiership from 10th?

[Scholz Supremacy]

The only way I could see it happening is if 9th or 10th is a Victorian team and they get 4-5 finals at the MCG.

How often would the term 'Bradbury' be used if it ever does look like happening though?

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

The only way I could see it happening is if 9th or 10th is a Victorian team and they get 4-5 finals at the MCG.

How often would the term 'Bradbury' be used if it ever does look like happening though?

Yep. And Duckworth Lewis.

 

[hampton]

It’s gonna be a shit show if the team that finishes 7th, has a few injuries heading into the wildcard, and 10th snags a win even if they’ve had a bunch less wins through home and away.

But in any case the chances of a win from 10th place is slim to none. Just making up the numbers and annoying us.

 

[hampton]

Will never happen, afl have in effect shrunk the real finals to six teams who have a realistic chance of winning the comp

That’s true if you finish 7-10 and have to win 5 straight games is a bit much.

 

[iameviljez]

That's a big if. They beat no one aside from the Giants in the 8. They were way off really.

The Dogs didn't exactly blow socks off across 2016, either.

 

[ElectricG]

Pretty even split for this question. Means it’s a good one.

My god can you imagine the umpiring that team would get.

 

[SC_Power]

The only way I could see it happening is if 9th or 10th is a Victorian team and they get 4-5 finals at the MCG.

How often would the term 'Bradbury' be used if it ever does look like happening though?

St Kilda 2022
Path to a flag from 10th
Wildcard: v Richmond MCG (defeated them Rd 3)
EF v Brisbane in Brisbane (lost by 3 goals Rd 22)
SF v Melbourne MCG (lost by 6 goals Rd 8)
PF v Geelong MCG (defeated them Rd 9 in Melbourne)
GF v Sydney at the MCG (lost by 2 goals Rd 23 in Melbourne)
4 finals in Melb, one interstate
So won 2 of the 5 H&A, very close in two others, one decent sized loss.

Hawthorn 2019
Path to a flag from 9th
Wildcard v Essendon MCG (lost 3 goals Rd 13)
EF v WC in Perth (beat WC by 6 goals in Perth Rd 23)
SF v Geelong MCG (beat Geelong by 4 goals Rd 18)
PF v Richmond MCG (lost by 6 goals Rd 9)
GF v GWS MCG (beat GWS by 5 goals Rd 8)
4 finals in Melb, one interstate
3-2 record H&A.

Still no real chance of winning 5/5, but if it was going to fluke then getting 4/5 those neutral or home state advantage is the only way.

 

[Corn Cobbers]

Will never happen, afl have in effect shrunk the real finals to six teams who have a realistic chance of winning the comp

I'm slowly coming around to it, for that reason

The real battle is for 6th not 10th

 

[SC_Power]

I'm slowly coming around to it, for that reason

The real battle is for 6th not 10th

So let’s reduce it to a final 6?
Ah, but money.

 

[Dazb86]

Only way I could see it happening is if a team has had horrendous luck with injury early and a rough draw.

 

[juss]

Possible, if one of the early season premiership favourites got a stack of injuries and they all came back for just before finals.

A genuine 10th team probably isn't going to win 5 in a row.

Only way I could see it happening is if a team has had horrendous luck with injury early and a rough draw.

This is the only way I could imagine it happening, and even then it'd probably be a mountain too high to climb.

 

[Golumless]

Considering how difficult the pathway is, it probably gets classified as one of the more famous grand final wins.

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

The Dogs didn't exactly blow socks off across 2016, either.

Beat sydney, Adelaide, wce and North in the top 8 and lost narrowly to Hawks by 3 points. Beating 4 top 8 sides is better than beating 1.

 

[iameviljez]

Beat sydney, Adelaide, wce and North in the top 8 and lost narrowly to Hawks by 3 points. Beating 4 top 8 sides is better than beating 1.

Yes, but the only one of those sides who they faced in the finals was Sydney - and that, they only won because Sydney kicked themselves out of it.

My point is that nobody saw the Dogs in 2016 coming.

 

[PowerfulPies2023]

Yes, but the only one of those sides who they faced in the finals was Sydney - and that, they only won because Sydney kicked themselves out of it.

My point is that nobody saw the Dogs in 2016 coming.

Wrong. They faced West Coast as well.

 

[*Paul*]

The NRL's only season of 20 teams/top ten saw ninth make the grand final. Beaten easily though.

 

[Mr.X]

The only way I could see it happening is if 9th or 10th is a Victorian team and they get 4-5 finals at the MCG.

How often would the term 'Bradbury' be used if it ever does look like happening though?

Agreed, yet the gap between top 4 and the rest will be even larger for the 9th and 10th sides

Sides who get one of the last two finals spots are making up the numbers

 

[GoldbergsGold]

Good or bad? It would be a Cinderella story

Shouldn't have been a top 10 finals series with 18 teams in 5 weeks. I think a top 9 with a 1994-1999 style finals system in 4 weeks would have been better.

 

[BallaratBulldog]

The Dogs didn't exactly blow socks off across 2016, either.

I have always argued we were a top four side that year, but had injuries hamper us. What people forget is they were a win off the Giants at 4th. After the bye, The Dogs got Libba JJ Macrae and Stringer back vs the Eagles for week 1.

I only say this because I feel like we were unfairly left out of how good the side actually was in general.

 

[caveman72]

Stranger things have happened Didn't Fitzroy win a Spoon and Flag in the same season

 

[black is White]

The only way I could see it happening is if 9th or 10th is a Victorian team and they get 4-5 finals at the MCG.

How often would the term 'Bradbury' be used if it ever does look like happening though?

If Brisbane finished 10th they could definitely still win it

 

[Viceregal]

Stranger things have happened Didn't Fitzroy win a Spoon and Flag in the same season

In a iirc four team competition where everyone thus played finals...

 

[kid_a]

It'd be pretty lol

 

[caveman72]

In a iirc four team competition where everyone thus played finals...

Good memory can't see it happening again