User talk:The afl brain

Essendon and "that" Premiership

I notice that you keep asserting in the article Australian Football League that Essendon have only won 15 VFL/AFL premierships. In your edit of 21 February 2007 you stated:

(Essendon are actually only on fiveteen since one of their premierships that makes up the 16 was not actually a Grand Final a.k.a Premiership it was mearly a round robin compettition just like the one they had one earlier in 1897)

The premiership concerned is of course the 1924 round robin finals where no grand final match was played (because Essendon already had an unassailable lead in the finals series).

It was indeed a premiership to Essendon that year and the AFL acknowledge as much. The article at Did the 1924 Bombers throw their last game? confirms that Essendon were premiers and also makes for interesting reading about the whole end of that season (especially with betting a topical issue in the AFL at present). Please stop reverting the number of premierships. Pudgey 11:02, 10 March 2007 (UTC)