The AFL Commission looks set to accept a proposal from Geelong president Colin Carter, which would see premierships from 1870 to 1896 officially recognised, as well as player records.
According to the Herald Sun, Carter's proposal to "reclaim the history" of the AFL would see 27 more premierships handed out, with the Cats claiming seven of them, moving up to 16 total flags, and into fourth place overall.
Carlton would surge away from Essendon and would sit on 22, while the Bombers' four extra flags would take them to 20.
Both sides currently top the leaderboard as it stands, at 16 premierships each. Collingwood sits second with 15, and would only move to 16 with one extra flag coming in 1896 - the last season before the current records began.
“I look at the history of football and it offends me because it’s wrong,’’ Carter told the Herald Sun.
“I also find it an extraordinary story. It wasn’t as if our competition limped out of an era which doesn’t really matter.
“Our competition today stands on foundations created by our founders in those forgotten years.
“Ignoring the years of our VFA history is grossly unfair to the players and administrators of that time. It’s time to give them justice.’
“We’re not the revisionist, the revisionists are the people in the 1920s.’’
