So the baby bombers of 93 would not have won the flag, they finished 8th the year before so would have been relegated. 2000 we would not have made the GF as we finished 3rd bottom the year before.
Other than the obvious lack of funds and care factor for the second tier from others outside the club, we essentially play a year for the right to contest the flag.
So say this year we finish 13th, stay in the second tier, but get our gun young players into the 40-50 games per player and with luck make a fantastic run at it, win more than any other club in either tier, but cannot with the flag cos we are in tier two, top tier 2, win that crappy promotion title/flag what ever it is then the next year come up to tier 1, get a bad run of injury etc and our window is over before we reached the chance.
Stop changing the game, it's getting so far from the game I grew up loving that I do not love it as much as a whole. I love Melbourne and will still attend out games, but I care for the game as a whole less every year due to the [censored] changes to try and make it into some thing it bloody isn't.
it's not the EPL, it's not the NFL etc so stop bloody trying to make it into them!
I love the EPL, I love the NFL, but I bleed for Melbourne, stupid ideas like this will kill me.