The AFL are poised to next week consider the prospect of making Richmond wear a clash jumper in the grand final if they qualify to face Adelaide.

The Tigers and the Crows have qualified for home preliminary finals and are in the box seat to play off for the premiership.

It would force the AFL to make a decision about whether to continue a recent trend of making one team wear an alternative guernsey when the two clubs meet. Convention would suggest that Adelaide – as the higher-placed team – would be given priority for wearing their home jumper.

Both this year and in 2015, Richmond wore their predominantly yellow clash jumper featuring a black sash – the inverse of their famous home jumper – in away games against the Crows, whose home jumper contains navy, red and yellow horizontal stripes. In 2016, Adelaide wore their mainly white clash jumper in a match against the Tigers at Etihad Stadium. Not since 2014 have the clubs played a game in which both sides have worn their first-choice jumpers.