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Which of These Is the Greatest?

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Pretty simple really. With the end of the 2008 AFL Season, things are starting to quiet down around here, so I thought I might get everyone's opinion on the greatest footy achievements.

Do you think Collingwood's four consecutive premierships from 1927 to 1930 was the greatest? Or the five out of six won by our own Melbourne Demons from 1955 to 1957, and then in '59 and '60? Another contender is the Hawks' record seven Grand Finals in a row from 1983 to '89. If you think that there's something I've left out, feel free to mention it.

EDIT: Grazman has informed me that we too made seven in a row. How do you like my ripper research? Not too shabby, eh?

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Pretty simple really. With the end of the 2008 AFL Season, things are starting to quiet down around here, so I thought I might get everyone's opinion on the greatest footy achievements.

Do you think Collingwood's four consecutive premierships from 1927 to 1930 was the greatest? Or the five out of six won by our own Melbourne Demons from 1955 to 1957, and then in '59 and '60? Another contender is the Hawks' record seven Grand Finals in a row from 1983 to '89. If you think that there's something I've left out, feel free to mention it.

Not meaning to be picky, but we played in seven in a row as well. 54-60. and yep that get's my vote.

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The dees also played in 7 GFs in a row from 54-60. Brisbane's 3 flags in a row is amazing in this modern era, although they never dominated a h&a season. Essendon in 2000 were the most dominant team throughout 1 season that I've seen.

My vote goes to us in 54-60, which is based on bias and nothing else.

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No idea, you would have had to see em to be any sort of judge and I wasnt even born yet.

Essendon 00 & Geelong 07/08 are defenitely the most dominant teams I've seen however yesterday was a reminder that unless you can rise to the occassion the other 25 weeks dont mean didly squat.

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5 out of 6 Grand Final wins is staggering, let alone making the GF the year before.

That beats the Pies 4 in a row, especially when 3(?) of them were won with challenges.

Making 7 in a row is amazing, but doesn't imply GF success. The Roos made 8 (?) straight Prelims, but only 3 GFs out of them

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Haha couldn't give a toss what a Collingwood supporter would say.

But in all seriousness, I'd have to say any time period involving extra Premierships makes for a better achievement. 3 in a row is an amazing achievement, but 5 in 6 years is better, and 6 in 10 better again IMO.

16 in 112 is a better achievement again IMO

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Haha couldn't give a toss what a Collingwood supporter would say.

But in all seriousness, I'd have to say any time period involving extra Premierships makes for a better achievement. 3 in a row is an amazing achievement, but 5 in 6 years is better, and 6 in 10 better again IMO.

16 in 112 is a better achievement again IMO

Fair enough. How come you didn't vote other?

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Pretty simple really. With the end of the 2008 AFL Season, things are starting to quiet down around here, so I thought I might get everyone's opinion on the greatest footy achievements.

Do you think Collingwood's four consecutive premierships from 1927 to 1930 was the greatest? Or the five out of six won by our own Melbourne Demons from 1955 to 1957, and then in '59 and '60? Another contender is the Hawks' record seven Grand Finals in a row from 1983 to '89. If you think that there's something I've left out, feel free to mention it.

EDIT: Grazman has informed me that we too made seven in a row. How do you like my ripper research? Not too shabby, eh?

I voted, like most, for the amazing feat of 5 out of 6 premierships in a row. I saw the 5 premierships but for some fortunate reason I missed the loss in 1958. Had we won in '58 we would have had SIX in a row and that would have taken some beating! The 1956 side was, in my humble opinion, the greatest Melbourne team of all time. A champion TEAM full of champion INDIVUALS. That combination can never be topped.

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can someone explain the challange system?

It's only about sixty years before my time, but I think that the team that won the previous year's Premiership was allowed to "challenge" the current winners regardless of their final position. If they won, then they'd win the Premiership for that year.

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Nah, it was if you finished top of the ladder, and lost at any stage of the finals, you were able to "challenge" the team that beat you and therefore get another go at them

Thanks. Could you only do that once per team? Or could you have two cracks at every team?

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Not meaning to be picky, but we played in seven in a row as well. 54-60. and yep that get's my vote.

Pretty easy in a 7 or 8 team comp (or whatever it was)

Lets not kid ourselves. The flags from back then are worth about 1/10th of a flag these days.

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Five out of Six Premierships is pretty good going. We lost 1958 after being White Hot favourites much like Geelong this year. Could well of been 6 in a row.

Another achievement of our Demons is finishing in the TOP FOUR for ELEVEN CONSECUTIVE SEASONS (1954-1964) including 7 minor premierships. Hard to beat that one I would reckon. Also, has any other team achieved TWO sets of hat tricks?

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