Hawthorn played mediocre interstate clubs for most of its flags (except Geelong). Fremantle, Sydney and West Coast :$
Richmond played mediocre interstate clubs for most of its flags (and an ageing Geelong). The Powerstances and a flaccid GWS :$
Not including last year's flag, Geelong won most...
No, it doesn't strike me as odd given Geelong have had teams in the top 4 for a chunk of the 21st century and top 8 for almost all of it.
Geelong have been better than every other team in that period. Hawthorn have won as many flags, but their intervening periods have been low. Richmond won 3...
And the ones I posted are objective, measurable stats. Who's to know if CD come up with some bizarre process for assigning quality of X, Y or Z based on the team played or whether it's Tuesday or whatever else - they are not definitively objective because we don't know what they are.
We can...
Er, no other club has ever achieved that. It's not just Carlton, Geelong and Collingwood.
If by "emulate Dusty" you mean "Be good for 4 years then do little else of significance", then Collingwood did that in the late 2000s.
Right, so magic beans rankings from Champion Data (which we'll never...
I really rate that, too. Can make up for a lack of quality in other areas of the game. A team always runs better when there's a bloke like that who's ready to go into bat for a team mate.
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