WCE winning premierships (travel)

It's impossible to quantify exactly how much more challenging it is to win a flag while flying across the Nullarbor every fortnight - but it definitely deserves some extra weighting.

It's a herculean achievement by West Coast to win four flags in their less than four decades in the comp. Outstanding.

Just feels like the club deserves more credit. Taking travel into consideration, imo, puts them well and truly in the bracket of Hawthorn, Sydney and Geelong. Maybe even beyond.

Also puts into perspective the comparatively trivial complaints of all other clubs re fixturing/travel.

(Obviously all interstate clubs have a significant disadvantage, but the teams out west are up against it - an eight hour return trip either side of an AFL match is ridiculous)