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I understand you were being sarcastic in your comment, but Patrick Cripps stated a few years ago that Vic bias is real and he knows so because of his WA roots. On the same day Patrick Dangerfield compared his two experiences of playing at the Crows / Cats to confirm that it's real. Luke Hodge essentially stated in that video that it's real and said that Victorian clubs/fans don't realise how good they've got it because he lived it when comparing his Hawthorn experience with his years at Brisbane and described his football experience at the Lions as "much harder". It's important to point out that Hodge played finals with Brisbane so it's not as if he was playing in a terrible team and that made the experience really difficult. He even flat out said it was unfair for the higher seeded West Coast to play Hawthorn at their home ground in the 2015 AFL Grand Final. Those are the kinds of scenarios that will continue to pop up while we continue to have travel inadequacies and Grand Finals locked to the MCG every year.

How many anecdotes from former/current players do we need to hear from those who have played at the highest level for clubs in and out of Victoria before this is accepted as fact? It doesn't really matter what anyone on Bigfooty thinks because the opinions of the players obviously hold a lot more weight than anyone on here, but it's really the media that are preventing this from becoming universally accepted. They have a duty to the game to treat it like the national league it aspires to be and that means acknowledging the Vic advantages and pushing for ways to equalise the league to give non-Vic teams a fighting chance. It's too heavily in favour of Vic teams right now and that's evidenced by the fact that we've only seen three non-Victorian teams win the premiership since 2006.