Quote Originally Posted by chef View Post
Like the 'right of challenge' if you finish top but got knocked out of the finals back in the VFL?
From Wiki:

VFL/AFL premierships
Most conventional grand finals are a single match at the end of a finals series where the winner of the match wins the premiership.

Under the early VFL finals systems from 1898–1930 (except 1924), the circumstances of the grand final were often different:

in twenty-nine of these years, the minor premiers had the right to challenge the winner of the finals series for the premiership, meaning the grand finals of this era were a mixture of challenge matches and non-challenge matches (which would have been followed by challenge matches had the minor premier been defeated), while in 1901, 1903 and 1906 there was no right of challenge. Regardless of the circumstances at that time, all of these games are now recognised as grand finals.