- May 5, 2016
- 44,462
- 49,467
- AFL Club
- Geelong
There’s a reason clubs try to win the flag each year.
Just like there’s a reason clubs who can win back to back are viewed as better than ones who can’t.
Sorry, that’s just the way it is.
Yes, because people have this idea that it’s a bigger achievement when it is the same achievement as someone else who wins the same amount of things in a given period.
Does the team who wins 2 in a row achieve something more than the team who wins, then doesn’t?
Yes.
Does the team who wins 2 in a row then doesn’t, achieve something more than the team who wins, loses, then wins?
No. And no matter how many times people claim that it does, it won’t make the trophy any bigger, more impressive, or more meaningful.
And I say that as someone whose AFL team has not gone back to back, and whose rugby league team was the first to do it in two decades. It means squat.