St Kilda Saints theme song (Lyrics) AFL Sing-A-Long - YouTube Personally, I think it's a step to far backwards. The music is definitely great, but the lyrics should change for our new joint Club ... but only slightly. A desperate and dangerous song for desperate and dangerous times. [9] From 1966–68, the club moved to Carlton's Princes Park while keeping their training and administration at the Brunswick Street Oval. Fitzroy lost in the VAFA D1 Grand Final to Rupertswood in 2009, but as a Grand Finalist was promoted to C-Grade for the 2010 season. Given they already have to put the words to the song up on the screen at the Gabba it's probably not a good idea to start changing things. on letterheads, marketing, etc.

VFL/AFL (8): 1898, 1899, 1904, 1905, 1913, 1916, 1922, 1944. Both wear the old Fitzroy jumper, play the old theme song, and play from Brunswick Street Oval in the heart of Fitzroy. Due to economic difficulties imposed on the VFL clubs due to World War I, only four teams contested the premiership that year, and at the end of the home and away rounds all teams made the finals. win or lose, we do or die, [14] Having reached the Premier C Grand Final at the end of 2012 season, Fitzroy was promoted to Premier B for season 2013 which coincided with the club's 130th birthday.
Since its entry into the VAFA, Fitzroy's home games have been renowned for their atmosphere and community spirit. In 1897, Fitzroy were one of the eight clubs who broke away from the VFA to form the Victorian Football League (VFL). It eventually came out of administration in 1998, and proceeded to commence playing in the VAFA in 2009. The La Marseillaise was originally a war song and it is meant to be stirring and emotional. The shareholders voted to continue the club, and Fitzroy then developed a partnership with the Coburg Lions in the VFL. A war song eh ... that sounds like a challenge for a guy in my industry. During this time, coach Mick Nunan resigned after Fitzroy's game against Essendon on July 6 and was replaced by Alan McConnell for his second stint in just twelve months. Join FREE and support Australia's favourite footy community. Football was less affected by World War II than it had been in 1916, and by 1944 was starting to return to its normal level. This success occurred under the coaching of Robert Walls and David Parkin, with players such as 1981 Brownlow Medallist Bernie Quinlan, Garry Wilson, Gary Pert and Paul Roos. "Shoop and win!" Doing heritage jumpers and all that is good to keep that alive, but at the same time we are the Brisbane lions now, not the bears or Fitzroy, it's an identity that supports from both clubs can adopt going forward. Amid uncertainties about the financial future of the club, its on-field performances continued to deteriorate, to the point where the Lions finished last by a long way in 1995 and 1996, winning just three matches in those seasons combined. [14] Tim Bell resigned for personal reasons at the end of 2011 and assistant coach Michael Pickering, a former AFL player with the Richmond and Melbourne Football Clubs was appointed as coach for the 2012 season. Fitzroy's season-by-season records throughout its thirteen seasons at VFA level are given below.

Fitzroy won a total of eight VFL premierships, of which seven (1898, 1899, 1904, 1905, 1913, 1916 and 1922) were won whilst they were nicknamed the Maroons and one (1944) as the Gorillas.

As well as trying several fund-raising ventures, the Lions experimented with playing four home matches in Tasmania in 1991 and 1992, but lost money in the process. Yep certainly like that arrangement. For those with a Melbourne slant, I read somewhere that they were all arranged by Ivan Hutchinson from Channel Seven, and probably a hint at Seven's first 'marketing' involvement with their football coverage perhaps. [14] On 15 July 2010, the two clubs reached a settlement, agreeing that the Fitzroy logo symbolically represents the historic merger between the Bears and Fitzroy and the first 13 years of the Brisbane Lions competing in the AFL, and that Brisbane would use both the old and new logos alongside each other in an official capacity (e.g. In that time Brisbane acknowledged the two parent clubs for the merger with the letters BBFFC printed below the back of the neck of the club's guernseys from 2002. [16] Brisbane returned to using the old logo on its playing guernseys from 2015, but the new logo will remain for corporate purposes. Not only would North Melbourne go on to the 1996 premiership, the merged team had proposed to take a 50-player senior list into the 1997 season.

The interest grew after the first year of women's Fitzroy footy, growing numbers within the women's league. The strong support and frequent attendance of club greats such as Kevin Murray has only strengthened the ties to the past for Fitzroy fans. The original Fitzroy Football Club came out of administration after the merger of the playing operations in late 1998. we wear the colours maroon and blue, However, the Cricket Club rejected the idea outright. It played its home games at Victoria Park, sharing it with Collingwood in 1985 and 1986, then at Princes Park from 1987 until 1993; and over the same time it moved through several different training and administrative bases, spending time first at the Westgarth Street Oval in Northcote,[10] then later Lake Oval in South Melbourne and Bulleen Park in Bulleen.[11].

The club also considered leaving Brunswick Street, and in 1962 it appealed to the Preston Council for a 40-year lease of the Preston City Oval, which was rejected.[8]. How good would it sound played loud at the MCG though? ), with the old logo to be phased out altogether after 2024 (or 2017 in the case of the Brisbane Lions website). They began in the D1 section of the VAFA in 2009 and now, after having been promoted three times (2009, 2012, 2018), play in the Premier ‘B Division’. Yep the original was pretty bloodthirsty. FITZROY/BRISBANE.

By the beginning of July 1996, the club had agreed to arrangements to become the North Fitzroy Kangaroos Football Club. However, the ground managers were the Fitzroy Cricket Club. The Cricket Club held the liquor licence and managed the ground, and it was thought that a combined club could more efficiently manage funds. The new club was to be based in Brisbane as the Brisbane Lions, playing at the Brisbane Cricket Ground in the Brisbane suburb of Woolloongabba. During the final years, the Fitzroy Football Club had been in merger discussions with several teams, but discussions were most advanced with North Melbourne.

- November Photoshop comp, Aus v NZ Women's Internationals, ODIs/T20s, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marseillaise#Lyrics, In the grandstand at the Brunswick St. In Round 21, 48,884 people attended the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on 25 August 1996 for Fitzroy's last ever game in Melbourne as part of the AFL competition. in defeat, we always try, Fitzroy was the most successful club in the first 10 years of the VFL, winning four premierships and finishing runners-up on three occasions. The Fitzroy Lions Football Club Song was sung to the tune of "La Marseillaise", the French national anthem. Originally a source of controversy, lured to Fitzroy with an illegal £222 payment, and subsequently not allowed to play in the 1930 season, Bunton became one of the game's greatest players, winning three Brownlow Medals while at Fitzroy. Talk of the death of the club due to financial troubles occurred as early as 1986. premiers, we'll be this year! Then North Melbourne CEO Greg Miller has accused the AFL of contriving the two bids in this manner to manufacture a result which would fulfil its strategic direction to strengthen the game in Queensland. No, we shouldn't. This article is about the football club. The Fitzroy theme song conveys this feeling much more than the Brisbane Lions theme song.

Throughout its history, Fitzroy had multiple colours and kits, in conjunction with the changing of its nicknames.[18]. Negotiations for elements such as club colours, guernsey and song were to be settled by the morning of 4 July by the Fitzroy board. Formed in 1883 to represent the inner-Melbourne municipality of Fitzroy, the club was a member of the Victorian Football Association (VFA), before becoming a foundation member of the breakaway Victorian Football League (VFL/AFL) in 1897. Leave the Brisbane Lions theme song the way it is. However, later that afternoon the administrator of Fitzroy who had been appointed to temporarily replace the Fitzroy board agreed to merge the club with the equally strapped Brisbane Bears, with the agreement of the AFL commission and a majority vote of the AFL's constituent clubs. Additionally, then North Melbourne vice-president Peter de Rauch believes that his club's decision not to include Fitzroy president Dyson Hore-Lacy on the board of the merged club was a catalyst for the temporary unravelling of negotiations between the clubs, allowing the appointment of the administrator and keeping the Brisbane Bears involved in the merger negotiations.[12]. I think you'd have to go with Lipps Inc's version to keep the traditionalists happy. Relationships between Fitzroy and Brisbane were strained in late 2009, when Brisbane announced that it was adopting a new logo for season 2010 and beyond, which Fitzroy Football Club believed contravened Section 7.2 c) of the merger agreement.

Includes all confirmed trades and FA moves. It's already bad enough to have our jumper and logo bastardised. The club played its final VFL/AFL game the following week on 1 September against Fremantle at Subiaco Oval, losing by 86 points. I like what Chopperduck and Mr Rip said above. Best part: “Fitzroy, Fitzroy, The Club … The club finished in the bottom three 11 times in the 1960s and 1970s, including three wooden spoons in four years and going completely winless in 1964, but still continued to produce great individual players, including Brownlow Medallists Allan Ruthven and Kevin Murray. wish I could have listened to it at the MCG Damn good song though. Fitzroy never won either a VFL or AFL premiership as the Lions. By the mid 1960s, Fitzroy's traditional home ground, the Brunswick Street Oval was in a state of disrepair. The Football Club had to pay the Cricket Club to use the ground. They quickly became one of the most successful clubs, drawing large crowds to their home at the Brunswick Street Oval in Edinburgh Gardens, and consistently in the top four and winning the VFA premiership in 1895.

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