VFA Lightning premiership was conducted between 1972-1979
1st division winners
Grand finals
1972 coburg d port Melbourne
1973 Geelong west d Preston
1974 Preston d prahran
1975 prahran d Northcote
1976 coburg d Brunswick
1977 Caulfield d Dandenong
1978 werribee d sandringham
1979 sandringham d Yarraville
2nd division
1972 box hill d Frankston
1973 Northcote d box hill
1974 Northcote d Frankston
1975 Northcote d mordialloc
1976 Camberwell d werribee
1977 Frankston d Northcote
1978 werribee d box hill
1979 Yarraville d Northcote
Northcote 1975, werribee 1978 and Yarraville 1979 were 2nd division clubs that made it to the gf facing 1st division clubs with werribee beating the zebras in 1978.
I have a couple of those games on DVD. Wonder if anyone has some of the lightning premiership games on tape.
Northcote won on 73-74-75 with runners up in 77-79 as well as 75 in 1st division loss to prahran.