Author Topic: Kane Cornes rates the last 26 AFL premiers (SEN)  (Read 582 times)

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Re: Kane Cornes rates the last 26 AFL premiers (SEN)
« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2026, 03:18:15 PM »
All good mate.
If the topic is pure talent on the basis of premiership teams then our 2020 team has to be in the top 5.
If it’s talent alone, then make it about the teams that finished 1st in the h&a season.
The thing about the AFL, the best teams and players rise to the occasion in finals so that becomes more relevant.

Look at Dangerfield vs Dusty.
Most superficial analysis has Danger ahead of Dusty but anyone worth their salt knows who the better player has been over their career.
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Re: Kane Cornes rates the last 26 AFL premiers (SEN)
« Reply #16 on: January 23, 2026, 07:52:30 PM »
Premiership rankings: 12 - 16:

16 - Brisbane (2024)
15 - Collingwood (2023)
14 - Geelong (2011)
13 - Brisbane (2025)
12 - Geelong (2022)

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2026/01/20/kane-cornes-afl-premiership-rankings-2000-to-2025

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Re: Kane Cornes rates the last 26 AFL premiers (SEN)
« Reply #17 on: January 24, 2026, 09:36:50 PM »
Here lies modern journalism. Pure trolling.

Nobody cares about who the top premiershop teams are except those who have won the flags in them. Can tell you Freo, Saints, Adelaide and others wouldn't even read this article. So here lies Kornes purpose and existence, lets rile up popular fan bases for clicks and engagement.

For those who care about the sacredness of a premiership, the best teams should be based on a combination of H+A dominance and then weighted more so about winning finals when it mattered. The teams that stand out under that theory are the dynasty teams. But lets not let commonsense get in the way of engagement.

The 2020 flag will probably go down as the most underated premiership ever. An entire season away from loved ones and home. Winning interstate, having tyhe least amount of access to experts, and medical support. Sure it was an evenish playing field as other teams had to deal with it as well but still it will forever be enormously underated.

The 2017 team, to be so dominant, to then back up in 2018 with a top table finish, and then a flag in 2019 and 2020. How could you possible not have a team that probably should have won 4 in a row as 2 of the bottom 26 is just embarrassing. Sure we have bias but this is just drivel. Geelong 2022 team would be 26th for mine, absolute ridiculously lucky run in finals and came against the biggest bottle job in Sydney for a walkover.
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Re: Kane Cornes rates the last 26 AFL premiers (SEN)
« Reply #18 on: Today at 01:35:19 AM »
In 2017, we pretty much revolutionised the way footy was played (so much so that subsequent premiers have copied our "chaos footy"). We also won all 3 finals by a minimum of six goals.

Interesting where Cornes puts 2019. We lost Rance in the first round and the media wrote us off. We copped a stack of injuries and pretty much had a team of Lynch with a bunch of untried cubs for the first half of the year. From memory we were 7-6 at one stage and out of the Eight. Once we got our senior players back, we won 12 straight and won the GF by 15 goals.

For 2019 and 2020, we also had learnt to pace ourselves to win flags after learning the hard way in 2018 of the perils of peaking too early in a season.
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