The club merged with the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions at the conclusion of the 1996 season, having gone through three coaches in its final two seasons, finishing last in each. But if you wind around right to gate four and climb a few flights of stairs, you’ll reach a cavernous room in which you’re enveloped by the history of Fitzroy Football Club, the AFL team who ceased to exist 20 years ago this week. Brisbane Bears career (1994–1996) In 1994, Lynch transferred to the Brisbane Bears. He wrote evocatively about Fitzroy’s endless struggle in newspaper columns, essays and even a play, in which he skewered the league’s heartless quest to dispose of the club. Home games were played at the Bruns… With mounting financial pressure from creditors, the 1996 season … Flying Higher: History of the Essendon Football Club 1872–1996, Essendon Football Club… “Everything seemed ad-libbed,” Dickins once wrote, “especially the poverty.” The Junction was where the faithful bore witness to the heroic deeds of Garry Wilson and Bernie Quinlan, whose “long, tireless frame loped along rather like a gazelle with dencorub on.” Quinlan wasn’t the only Roy who moved Dickins to verse. Age average 22.7 years old ranked 16th for the year. Others tried valiantly to hold on to the memories of the late 70s and mid-80s, when the Roys called the Junction Oval home and enjoyed their last run of meaningful team success. Now she’s the Victorian sponsor of Lions star Pearce Hanley, and she speaks of him like a son. Subsequently, the AFL introduced contingencies that a game could be abandoned, with the progress result accepted as final at any point beyond half time, at the agreement of the captains when (a) any unexpected incident delays a game by half an hour, or (b) if dangerous weather conditions, most typically lightning, prevail. Footscray's 1996 season became the subject of the sports film, After their round 17 loss to Collingwood, caretaker coach, The season is perhaps best remembered for its preliminary final between minor premiers. And for many Roys fans, it honestly was the end of the world. The 1996 Australian Football League season was the 100th season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 7th under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989. This year, to the surprise of nobody who knows of his efforts in keeping the spirit of the Roy Boys alive, the Brisbane Lions inducted Arthur into its Hall of Fame. The Rage of a Roy Boy concluded with a rib-rattling shirt-front on league administration: What has led us to suicide is an insane belief in money and in a society that has no history. “That’s obvious. Now, 83 years on – and 20 years since their heartbreaking last game and subsequent merger with the Brisbane Bears – Arthur’s love for Fitzroy is undimmed. John Barker and his Fitzroy team-mates contemplate a heavy loss in the club’s last AFL game against Fremantle Dockers at Subiaco, 1 September 1996. The first time we chatted, he’d described Fitzroy’s final days as “bloody awful.”, “Yes, it feels like the old days but it’s not the same mate, it’s not Fitzroy,” he admits, though not with bitterness. Ironically, a tour of the club’s museum would serve as a reminder to them that for the greater bulk of its history – and certainly its greatest success when it still stood alone – Fitzroy was attired in the maroon and navy blue more readily associated with Brisbane. A Fitzroy fan celebrates the Brisbane Lions’ 2002 AFL Grand Final victory, a period in which many former Roys finally embraced their club’s new identity. More than any person in clubland, Arthur can lay claim to having seen it all. The 1996 season was the Hawthorn Football Club's 72nd season in the Australian Football League and 95th overall. It’s pretty heartbreaking to think that a foundation member of the VFL – 113 years in the competition, we won eight premierships and had six Brownlow medalists, so we had a pretty good history in the AFL. All Welcome to chat all things Fitzroy and to share memories. The Victorian Football Association (VFA) made changes to their rules, allowing Fitzroy to join as the seventh club in 1884, playing in the maroon and blue colours of the local Normanby Junior Football Club. That, it has to be said, is just the Fitzroy way. Fitzroy Sadly departed the AFL in 1996. Photograph: Getty Images ABN: 20 005 881 201 We became the wandering Jew of football, training where we could. At the end of the day it was out of our hands.”, But Wilson and Coates were at least on hand to make sure the transition wasn’t as rough on Fitzroy loyalists as it might have been, successfully lobbying Brisbane management to retain key symbols of Fitzroy’s history and curry favour with what remained of the Melbourne-based supporters. Fitzroy’s 333-game champion and 1969 Brownlow medalist Kevin Murray models an earlier incarnation of the Lions’ jumper. CLUB ADDRESS: SWAN COURT RENOWN PARK . playing in the . It is Lord’s job to link Roys fans to the Brisbane Lions and foster not only the spirit of the old club, but something new. “It was certainly a surprise and felt an honour,” he tells me. 86 points. This merger of the club operations of Fitzroy and the Brisbane Bears at the AFL level, formed the Brisbane Lions. Twenty years on from their heartbreaking final game in the AFL, the spirit and history of Fitzroy football club remains thanks to a hardy bunch of Roys loyalists, Last modified on Mon 10 Oct 2016 21.30 EDT. MERGER tells the story of the Fitzroy Football Club's 1996 season in the Australian Football League, a season made infamous by the club's merger with the Brisbane Bears. 1996 was declared a year of celebration as the 100th season of VFL/ AFL football. ABN: 20 005 881 201 A Fitzroy fan burns a flag after the club’s last AFL game game in Melbourne, during round 21 of the 1996 season at the MCG. For Sale items will be removed. Arthur is the chairman of the Fitzroy-Brisbane Lions historical society and the curator of its magnificent museum-cum-shrine, whose contents would be spread far and wide or else destroyed were it not for his bowerbird instincts and love for his football club. Note: Last game of Brisbane Bears before merger with Fitzroy Lions to become Brisbane Lions. “The Brisbane Lions have been terrific,” Wilson tells me, but I wonder whether it still feels like it did during the old days at the Junction, and whether someone who cherished something so dearly and for so long could fully embrace the re-birth of a club that was allowed to die with so little dignity. It was nothing short of the worst year ever experienced by a VFL/AFL club. The North Fitzroy Kangaroos was a proposed professional Australian rules football club which was to have formed from the merger between the Fitzroy Football Club and the North Melbourne Football Club, and was to have competed in the Australian Football League from 1997 onwards. Home Ground: Brunswick Street Oval, Brunswick Street, North Fitzroy. You walked across an old bridge suspended over a depressing briquette yard, and you heard them singing as early as half-way through the Seconds. In my view one the best trades ever. In 1944, when Fitzroy won its final league premiership as a standalone club, he ran out onto the Junction Oval on grand final day as the team’s mascot. The Australian Football League, governing body of the recently expanded national competition, stepped in to merge Fitzroy with the Brisbane Bears, forming the Brisbane Lions after the 1996 season. In his time he’s also filled just about every other role the Lions had on offer bar player or coach, from helming the club’s junior programs of the 1960s and managing the senior side, to a lengthy stint as secretary and years as Fitzroy’s head recruiter, an endeavour that reaped some of the club’s greatest heroes. Dickins spotted Bernie Quinlan weeping openly for the club, even though only a year earlier they’d callously sacked him as coach. “I nearly fell over,” a grateful Arthur Wilson tells me. ... #28 Mid-Season 1992 12: Matthew Primus: 12 Jan 75: 21 yr: 198 cm: 109 kg: 0: 0: 0: 20: 5: 2: Fitzroy, the football club that heaved its final sobbing breath as the league’s nomadic, unloved vagrant, is now somehow home, its former glory preserved. Fitzroy Football Club. Like I’ve wept a weir. June 1996 ch 9 newsbreak near the end of Fitzroy footy club Note: West Coast Eagles played its "home" final at the MCG despite being ranked above Essendon due to the agreement then in place with the Melbourne Cricket Club that at least one game each week of the finals be played at the MCG. As for the question of Fitzroy’s true ‘home’, Arthur Wilson says that it’s impossible to choose between Brunswick street oval, where he first fell in love with the game, and the Junction oval, where the club had its last genuine era of team success – when “Superboot” Quinlan served as spearhead for a team that won its way to five finals campaigns in eight years and finished a win away from the 1986 grand final. So that was very disappointing. Julian Savage. The merger was arranged in May 1996 to avert the imminent financial collapse of Fitzroy, but was abandoned within … The AFL draft is the annual draft of new unsigned players by Australian rules football teams that participate in the main competition of that sport, the Australian Football League.. No doubt we’d have more if we were winning but they still stay rusted on.”, The new generation Lions administration respects the wishes of those who refused to come on board with Brisbane. By the mid-1990s the club was unable to pay the high price for recruits or to retain its home-grown champions. “Once they agreed with that,” Wilson says, “as far as I was concerned, that was enough for me to say ‘OK, well I’m going to be around.’”. It was tribal. The Brisbane Lions is a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, that plays in the Australian Football League (AFL). The club was formed in late 1996 via a merger of the Fitzroy Football Club 's football operations and the Brisbane Bears. When he was too young to walk, his parents would close the family bicycle shop in Carlton, stick their son in his pram and wheel him down to games at the club’s former home at Brunswick Street Oval. From the late 1960s onward, the club suffered from stadium constraints and financial difficulties that resulted in multiple merger and relocation proposals. The club was formed in late 1996 via a merger of the Fitzroy Football Club's football operations and the Brisbane Bears. 5:21. For Melbourne fixtures the club wears the royal blue, red and yellow of Fitzroy’s 1980s pomp, but when Brisbane introduced to the infamous “Paddlepop Lion” guernsey design there was, well, an uproar. When we die and go to heaven the only thing we will take with us is disgrace, because that’s the new name for love, and Fitzroy Football Club. Club legend John Murphy draped the award over his head and Jonathan Brown interviewed him afterwards. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. He was suitably chuffed. “The jumper is very important,” says Lord, who concedes that it is hard to cater to the individual tastes of every member. Note: Ben Hart took the mark of the year in Adelaide's win over St Kilda. In May of 1996, writing for The Age, Barry Dickins penned “The Rage of a Roy Boy”, a classic among his paeans to Fitzroy, and one that again confirmed him among the most lyrical and idealistic figures of football’s literature: My father took me to each Fitzroy game at Brunswick Oval. Roys fans howled, burnt flags, and had to watch as their side was thumped by 151 points against Richmond, before invading the arena one last time. The ground was the home of Fitzroy Cricket Club up until its amalgamation 1986 with the Doncaster Cricket Club, Fitzroy Football Club in the VFA from 1883–97, and the home of the club in the VFL from 1897 until 1966, with the last game being played there on Saturday 20 August 1966 against St Kilda, a game which the Lions lost by 84 points. But if you wind around right to gate four and climb a few flights of stairs, you’ll reach a cavernous room in which you’re enveloped by the history of Fitzroy Football Club, the. The Lions were the most successful AFL club of the 2000's, appearing in four consecutive Grand Finals from 2001 to 2004 and winning three premierships ( 2001 , 2002 , 2003 ). When stadium boss Ian Collins saw the lengths to which Wilson had gone in order to preserve the sacred artefacts of this once-great club, he didn’t hesitate in handing over the keys. After 100 years of competition in the VFL-AFL, Fitzroy said goodbye to the city of Melbourne in Round 21 1996 in front of 48,884 people, against Richmond. The Fitzroy Football Club is an inner northern football club. Almost out of existence. This was the last season in which the Brisbane Bears and Fitzroy Lions competed, before their merger at the end of the year to for the Brisbane Lions. He says that in the years following the merger, three types of Lions fan emerged: the ones who, like himself, jumped straight on board as Brisbane members in 1997, those who adopted a rival AFL club as their own, and the heartbroken romantics who were so disenchanted by the league’s heartless erasure of their side that they abandoned AFL football altogether, either adopting the Fitzroy amateur side who now play at Brunswick street or finding entirely new ways to spend their winter weekends. 1996 (fitzroys last season) keyring with season fixture. In the 1996 Ansett Australia Cup final, St Kilda defeated Carlton 20.10 (130) to 10.12 (72) at Waverley Park. Fitzroy fan flood the playing arena after the club’s last ever game in Melbourne, against Richmond in round 21 of the 1996 AFL season. Fitzroy's last period of success came in the 1980s, with the club making the finals on five separate occasions between 1979 and 1986. Lockett had been under an injury cloud with a groin problem during the preceding week, and there was some doubt whether he would play. Yet all the most important visual symbols of the club’s former glory now rest at Etihad stadium, whose corporate sheen provides stark contrast to the rustic delight of Kevin ‘Bulldog’ Murray’s sweat-stained back brace, the No7 locker door featuring the names of Haydn Bunton, Warwick Irwin and Michael Gale, or the pristine corduroy and leather lace-up guernsey from the 1898 season. They consider Chris Johnson and Alastair Lynch “one club players”. The first such final was contested in 1898 between the Essendon Football Club and Fitzroy Football Club at the St Kilda Cricket Ground, which Fitzroy won scoring 5.8 (38) to Essendon's 3.5 (23). FITZROY MEN'S SEASON 2020 INFORMATION CLICK PHOTO BELOW . Note: The SCG match was the Swans' first finals win since the 1945 Second-Semi-Final, when they were known as South Melbourne. After 20 years they’re not going to change their tune and everyone dealt with the emotion differently. Fitzroy fan flood the playing arena after the club’s last ever game in Melbourne, against Richmond in round 21 of the 1996 AFL season. Fitzroy Football Club The Last Fitzroy Side. The club's professional senior team was a foundation member of the Victorian Football League along with seven other clubs on its inception season of 1897. See List of Australian Football League premiers for a complete list. Fitzroy (Merged with Brisbane Bears 1997) [Detailed Player Records 1965-1996] [Player Season and Game Stat Records] [All Time Player List] [Goalkicking Records] [Win-Loss Records] [Game Records] [Attendances] [Quarters & Halves] [Recent Form] [Season Summary] All Games [By Opponent] The 1996 AFL draft was held at the conclusion of the 1996 Australian Football League (AFL) season.The inaugural rookie draft was held with the 1997 pre-season draft.. But there are still probably a few who are on the fence, which sounds silly after 20 years. In the 1996 AFL Lightning Premiership final, Essendon defeated the Brisbane Bears 6.2 (38) to 2.9 (21) at Waverley Park. No Roys supporter evoked the spirit of the place quite so well as playwright and artist Barry Dickins, who used to sneak into the ground on a forged concession card and await his brother’s arrival from over the fence. Figuring those feelings would be even harder to bear come winter she resolved to move to Europe but eventually stayed, and like so many of the club’s Melbourne fans, slowly but surely embraced the Brisbane Lions as she had her former club. If we do the right things, engagement-wise, they might really feel that connection.”, “Brisbane Lions will never be Fitzroy but we’re very careful and very particular in honouring it.”. Like ‘61, the crazy way in which the Fitzroy bowling club and the Fitzroy cricket club voted at the annual general meeting to boot the Fitzroy football club out. We killed ourselves. All are welcome regardless. References Postal: PO Box 5230 Mordialloc Vic 3195. secretary@fitzroyfc.com.au. ... Fitzroy were given the right to 'challenge' Minor Premiers Essendon in the Grand Final. For one there’s Arthur Wilson’s shrine to Fitzroy FC, through which every new recruit takes a tour to learn about the club’s origins, but Brisbane have also sought to merge the two club’s statistics and awards. In 2010, Fitzroy’s treasures finally settled in this spacious and lovingly-constructed home but not before the best part of two nomadic decades in and out of storage and temporary displays. The club's colours of maroon, gold and blue are drawn from both entities. Note: Tony Lockett kicked a behind after the siren to send the Swans to the Grand Final for the first time since South Melbourne's last appearance in 1945. Apart from University, which folded when World War I broke out in 1914, only one other VFL The Fitzroy Football Club was established on September 26, 1883, at a meeting at the Brunswick Hotel that was called by local businessman George Toms and a former Fitzroy mayor, John MacMahon. “If we wear the FFC jumper, generally it brings a better crowd in for games,” says Lord. John Blakey last season at Fitzroy was in 1992 where i think he was traded to North for the great player Jason McCarthy. Life members and Hall of Famers from the old club have been bestowed with the same honour at the new one, though not all have adopted the Brisbane Lions as their own. Thus an agreement was struck to keep the Lions’ moniker, the team song and the Coates’s lion design on the team jumper. I used to stare in sheer disbelief as the smartarse Kevin Wright threaded the needle by defying gravity and booting uncanny goals like effort and football had nothing in common. They were coming off the most dominant season on record, having lost just 2 games in 1995 and still on a run of 16 wins in a row - culminating with an emphatic victory in the 1995 Grand Final. They lost lost by 151 points. I feel deader than they are. When you speak to Arthur Wilson, you get an idea of why they ever cared so much. That’s the beauty of it and that’s the hard part as well, because you can’t tap into everyone’s immediate emotional connection.”. Adelaide Men's & Women's Football League . This page was last edited on 5 March 2021, at 22:03. With its wind-swept concourse, tangled web of office high-rises and all those artless chunks of concrete and steel, the approach to Etihad stadium doesn’t offer much for the romantically inclined football fan, at least not on first sight. Address. For Roys fans who lived through the torment of their club’s final throes, life has never been quite the same again. If you’re lucky, you’ll arrive on a day when Arthur Wilson is there to greet you. Fitzroy were also known as the Gorillas for that final flag in ‘44 and before that The Maroons. Coaches This was the last season in which the Brisbane Bears and Fitzroy Lions competed, before their merger at the end of the year to for the Brisbane Lions. Fitzroy Playing List for 1996 (compare with the other club lists for 1996) Experience average 35.1 games ranked 15th for the year. The End Of The Fitzroy Lions 1996 - … At the time, the Brisbane Bears, like the Fitzroy Football Club, were experiencing lean times, but they were improving somewhat under the coaching of premiership coach Robert Walls. This is the longest period for any club in VFL/AFL history without winning even one final, although St. Kilda won only one final between 1914 and 1964 inclusive. But there has always been a death-wish deep inside Fitzroy. Note: Last game of Fitzroy Lions before merger with Brisbane Bears to become Brisbane Lions. The Fitzroy Football Club was formed at a meeting at the Brunswick Hotel on 26 September 1883, at a time when Melbourne's population was rapidly increasing. Even peripheral vision of the club’s old ground would fill her eyes with tears, she told me. ith its wind-swept concourse, tangled web of office high-rises and all those artless chunks of concrete and steel, the approach to Etihad stadium doesn’t offer much for the romantically inclined football fan, at least not on first sight. “We respect that. A 1944 Fitzroy football club premiership photo on display at the Fitzroy-Brisbane Lions historical society museum, Etihad Stadium, Melbourne. VFL And AFL 1883-1996 has 2,654 members. When you’ve had 113 years of a club... My first introduction when I was about three and my parents took me down in the pusher. fitzroy football club. You think that I hate them? Merging with Brisbane Bears. Two and a half thousand early adopters of 1997 swelled significantly off the back of the triple premiership success of 2001-03, eventually peaking beyond 7,000 – more than Fitzroy usually had in their dying seasons. Wrote Dickins: “It was so beautiful to see him cry as he faithfully spoke of something rather like the end of the world.”. Postal: PO Box 5230 Mordialloc VIC 3195. secretary@fitzroyfc.com.au. “It’s fair to say the jumper plays a very important role.”, “Every Fitzroy person dealt with merger differently, has dealt with the post-merger differently and has a different emotional connection with different parts of the club. That number has since settled back in the 4,000 range. The club is still running as a VAFA club. Doing a bit of lucklustre circle-work at forsaken Westgarth Oval... We did it to ourselves. Note: The opening four matches of this round replicated the opening round of the inaugural 1897 VFL season, with Essendon and Geelong playing each other on the day of the 99th anniversary. The 1996 Australian Football League season was the 100th season of the elite Australian rules football competition and the 7th under the name 'Australian Football League', having switched from 'Victorian Football League' after 1989. 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In 1897, Collingwood, along with fellow VFA clubs Fitzroy, Melbourne, St Kilda, Carlton, Essendon, South Melbourne and Geelong split from the VFA and formed the Victorian Football League (VFL). That last ‘home’ game was a gut-wrenching prelude to the totally avoidable indignity that followed a week later, when despite intimations from the Dockers that they’d be willing to shift the fixture, Fitzroy’s league-mandated funeral against Fremantle took place at Subiaco, as far as one could physically and spiritually be from Brunswick street or the Junction. Fitzroy-Brisbane Lions football club Hall of Fame inductee Arthur Wilson at the Fitzroy-Brisbane Lions historical society museum, Etihad Stadium, Melbourne. “It doesn’t have a significant drop because they’re all the rusted-on Fitzroy people. SANFL Juniors League. Like most clubs, Brisbane’s Melbourne-based membership figures have fluctuated according to on-field success. The club's colours of maroon, gold and blue are drawn from both entities. Carlton began as reigning Premiers and were widely tipped to repeat that performance. Better still, his elevation came on the same night as that of George Coates, former Roys player, designer of the club’s prowling lion logo and Arthur’s good mate. Thread starter johnnyhoward ... Blakey was at North Melbourne in 1996. In his main role at the club he succeeded Jeremy Guard, a former Fitzroy player. “We know that there’s a lot of old Fitzroy people who have never been and will never be Brisbane Lions fans,” says Lord. Note: Fitzroy's victory was the last win they had as a club. Like so many times in their dying years the Roys were walloped. Home Ground: Brunswick Street Oval, Brunswick Street, North Fitzroy. It might not seem a big deal to outsiders, but it’s instructive that Brisbane’s Victorian manager Sam Lord is a former Roys diehard himself and also sits on the club’s historical society. 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