Perth-based West Coast, which joined the league in 1987, became the first non-Victorian club to both contest and win a grand final, in 1991 and 1992, respectively; and, between 1992 and 2006, non-Victorian clubs won ten out of the fifteen grand finals, with the Brisbane Lions enjoying the greatest success, with three premierships in a row between 2001 and 2003. In 2020, they again won the grand final List of AFL Grand Final Winners Related Pages Norm Smith Medal award for the best player in the AFL Grand Final. The establishment of the modern premiership cup in 1959 gave the after-match a ceremonial focus and allowed the attention to settle on the premier team, ending the previous custom of the crowd descending on the arena and variously chairing or walking the players off the ground. We dont see quagmires like that any more. In 1990, Collingwood won the Grand Final in October due to the qualifying final between Collingwood and West Coast Eagles being a draw. [29] Although the flag is of lower physical importance than the cup, it retains its symbolic significance, and "the flag" is still widely used as a metonym for the premiership itself in Australian rules football parlance, including in many of the league's team songs. He would never get another chance to play in an AFL decider. Bobby Hill and Lachie Keeffe (GWS, 2019): In another case of making way for players who were clearly in the best 22, Hill and Keeffe were omitted as Toby Greene (suspension) and Lachie Whitfield (injury) returned to the Giants team. Kickett had played 23 games on the way to the decider against Carlton, including all three finals, but was sensationally cut as Mark Harvey, Mark Thompson and Dean Wallis were brought in. The pre-match entertainment has at times been criticised as uninspiring; and two performances in particular Angry Anderson in 1991 and Meat Loaf in 2011 are routinely mocked for the poor performances of the artists. While the Hawks would win flags in 2013, 2014 and 2015, Whitecross would miss all them, playing just four games in that period. The grandstands were expanded again in 1968, and an enduring record crowd of 121,696 saw one of the most famous grand finals of all in 1970, in which Carlton overcome a 44-point half-time deficit to defeat Collingwood.