Carlton to go up to 22 Flags :eek

[Bucks5]

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/history-of-the-afl-could-be-turned-on-its-head-20140620-zsglu.html

We have no hope of overtaking them

[stui magpie]

If they want to start that crap, Port Adelaide will be out in front so far it's scary.

[ronrat]

Leave it as it is. In fact if they are determined to rewrite history take the last scum flag off them for salary cap cheating. That might change the cheating Fitzpatrick and his mates mind set.

[Piesnchess]

This idea is just so warped, its insane, no way can flags be added up from the old vfa and the League now, that dipstick farrker Fitzpatrick, a scum shit head, must be stopped from this ludicrous crap move.

[David]

The funniest thing about this is the headline: "History of the AFL could be turned on its head". Um, no, the history would remain exactly the same. The AFL would simply be arbritarily shifting the goalposts in an extremely mundane way. Carlton will be able to say they have 22 premierships ... except, they already can do that if they like. What will have changed, really? Will Bruce mention it during the commentary at some point?

Should they? Personally, I don't mind either way. In some ways I've always seen the current competition as a natural extension of the old pre-1897 VFA and perhaps even the looser competition that existed before that. In some respects, counting a flag won in 1877 makes about as much sense as counting one from 1905, given the way the game has changed since. Obviously teams like Hawthorn and Port Adelaide would be annoyed about their histories not 'officially' counting, but it's fair enough for them to miss out: the roots of the current AFL lie clearly in the VFL and original VFA; not the SANFL, WAFL or VFA post-1896.

Anyway, it's all just symbolism, and fairly abstract symbolism at that. But I don't think it would be such a bad thing.

[Collingwood Crackerjack]

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/afl/afl-news/history-of-the-afl-could-be-turned-on-its-head-20140620-zsglu.html

Trying to get the jump on flags won by rewriting history.

For shame!!!!!!

[Damien]

Well with FitzPatrick in charge you'd reckon its a cert.

Let them get a bit of historical pleasure. God knows they are getting anything at present or in the foreseeable future.

Anyway it really should start at 1990 which makes us the inaugural Premiers.

All the other local comps should just keep their own histories.

[TK]

Worse still we lose our boast that we are the only team to win 4 in row as Essendon did in 1891 - 1894 - Doh

Anyway I think it should be only back dated to official Premierships from Grand Finals - 1896 being the first and Essendon stipped of its 1897 & 1924 flags as they were round robin games!!!!

So My tally works out to Be Collingwood & Carlton 16 and Essendon 14

Get some of that Fitzy

[Pies4shaw]

[E]

if nothing else, what this mass-debate about where you start counting highlights just how meaningless it is even today to claim superiority over the number of flags you have won!!!!

If anything, the fact that Mike Fitzpatrick could in effect change history by simply saying it a different way, invalidates the existing status quo.

[Dave The Man]

AssHole and Shows that Carlton run the AFL

[Dave The Man]

[taff wa]

This is bullshit, if they want to incorporate VFA premierships the non Victorian clubs may well have a case to include wafl and sanfl flags into the history particularly port Adelaide.

[HAL]

You don't say.

[Dave The Man]