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All are welcome regardless.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. But there are still probably a few who are on the fence, which sounds silly after 20 years. Wrote Dickins: “It was so beautiful to see him cry as he faithfully spoke of something rather like the end of the world.”And for many Roys fans, it honestly was the end of the world. See all the latest news. “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.’”For others the grieving and adjustment process wasn’t so simple. 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.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. “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. All rights reserved. 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.”This has meant, at times, weathering the odd storm of criticism and conceding ground to the club’s Victorian members, for whom the number of Melbourne games and the design of club jumper are constant bug bears. Now she’s the Victorian sponsor of Lions star Pearce Hanley, and she speaks of him like a son.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. The Fitzroy shop. “That’s obvious. Jun 26 1996 – Fitzroy Football Club offers $550,000 plus $100,000 to be paid over the next two years to their only secured creditor the Nauru Insurance Company to settle their debt.

Roos, despite his affiliations to the Sydney Swans and then Melbourne, has always regarded the Brisbane Lions as his former club. Sponsor the club or an individual player! Almost out of existence. I have served the Fitzroy Football Club for 17 years since 1994. Thus an agreement was struck to keep the Lions’ moniker, the team song and the Coates’s lion design on the team jumper. 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. 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.”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.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.

After 20 years they’re not going to change their tune and everyone dealt with the emotion differently. He also played 24 matches for Victoria and six for Western Australia in interstate football. See the FFC event calendar. Ask us how. 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. Club legend John Murphy draped the award over his head and Jonathan Brown interviewed him afterwards. Kevin Murray, the greatest living Fitzroy player of all, has been steadfast in his support for the merged entity. 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.

He was suitably chuffed.“It was certainly a surprise and felt an honour,” he tells me. I have been the Club's Secretary since 1998 when we came out of administration.

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. Order all your Fitzroy merchandise online. “We respect that.