Great grand final matchups we were robbed of

[Defabs]

96 Essendon shouldn't have even been in The prelim let alone the granny. West Coast should have got to host the semi in Perth.

The ridiculous finals system from 1994 to 1999 effectively gave 5th and 6th place a double chance as it was rare for 1st and 2nd to lose to the 7th and 8th ranked teams in week 1.
Then the 6th place loser was awarded with a home SF! Ess in 96 and Carl in 99 should have been in Vegas in early Sep

 

[AlwaysHawks15]

Lol at 1994. Geelong vastly superior team to north. Beating them 3 times that year. What that year was robbed of was a fit geelong taking on west coast. Our entire midfield of hocking, couch, bairstow was injured that final series, we lost our star centre half foward weeks before the finals started and ablett was hobbling on one leg come finals.

And north still couldnt get over the top of us.

We beat both you and the Eagles that year. Eagles twice including belting them by 70 points over there early in the year. Had we not lost to lowly Fitzroy at Waverley we would have finished higher up and avoided an elimination straight away. Both 1993 and 1994 id argue we were good enough on our day to win it all.