if you are referring to the post 2005 era (the Clarkson years) you have to assume we would have made the same coaching and player selections...why would we do that when as I pointed out Melbourne was the dominant player in the merger. The decisions were likely to be similar to those...
Also in 1987, the first of two AFL clubs from Queensland joined the league (the Brisbane Bears, who later became theBrisbane Lionsin 1997, via a merger with Fitzroy [of Melbourne]/ 14 years later, theGold Coast Suns, of far-southern Queensland, joined in 2011). In 1991, the first of ...