Thanks for uploading this program to UA-cam. The “Headliners” series presented by a young Jason Bennett (Bennett today works for Channel 7 in Melbourne as the main play by play commentator for VFL matches and some AFL games during footy season) during the first incarnation of Fox Footy channel on Foxtel/Austar/Optus TV. Headliners was an underrated show and I learned a lot about the early days of the Eagles from this program. Thanks 🙏 again ! 👍🏻🙂
The formation of the AFL was done all wrong. It should have started with 6 Victorian, 2 WA, 2 SA, Sydney & Brisbane. Collingwood, Carlton, Essendon, Geelong, Hawthorn & Melbourne. The rest sent to the VFA. Unfortunately, the cash up front kept crappy clubs like North Melbourne, Richmond, Fitzroy, St Kilda & Footscray in the league. SA could submit North Adelaide & Port Adelaide. Brisbane could adopt one of the ex-VFL clubs. WA football has been ripped off for a number of years.
Yup.. the national competition was only set up to save the 6 Victorian clubs that were broke. I don't think the AFL as it is today was ever the reason that the Eagles and Brisbane were given licences... it was all about $$$. The Eagles were literally set up to fail by the VFL at the time.
A definite sliding doors moment. Given how many of the VFL and WAFL clubs at the time were close to bankruptcy there would have been a lot more teams lost to footy forever than just Fitzroy.
Fitzroy's senior list voted overwhelmingly to move to Brisbane in 1987, in order to keep their talented list together. So, I think that the Lions move north by 1987 & the Bears 🐨 never existed
@@insertnamehere5809That would've been a better outcome than the current Brisbane Lions. The Lions would've kept their history intact like the Swans did when they left South Melbourne for Sydney.
@@peterkehoe481 The new 1987 Brisbane Lions would have had Gary Pert, Alastair Lynch, Paul Roos, Scott McIvor, Doug Barwick & Richard Osborne plus the rights to Michael Voss, Nathan Buckley, Darryl White & Marcus Ashcroft (being from Queensland and the Northern Territory). Also, they would have been at the GABBA & they wouldn't have had Christopher Skase.
Thanks for uploading this program to UA-cam. The “Headliners” series presented by a young Jason Bennett (Bennett today works for Channel 7 in Melbourne as the main play by play commentator for VFL matches and some AFL games during footy season) during the first incarnation of Fox Footy channel on Foxtel/Austar/Optus TV. Headliners was an underrated show and I learned a lot about the early days of the Eagles from this program. Thanks 🙏 again ! 👍🏻🙂
Thanks for uploading this. Great content. We need a show or series like this back.
amazing........
The formation of the AFL was done all wrong. It should have started with 6 Victorian, 2 WA, 2 SA, Sydney & Brisbane. Collingwood, Carlton, Essendon, Geelong, Hawthorn & Melbourne. The rest sent to the VFA. Unfortunately, the cash up front kept crappy clubs like North Melbourne, Richmond, Fitzroy, St Kilda & Footscray in the league.
SA could submit North Adelaide & Port Adelaide. Brisbane could adopt one of the ex-VFL clubs.
WA football has been ripped off for a number of years.
Yup.. the national competition was only set up to save the 6 Victorian clubs that were broke. I don't think the AFL as it is today was ever the reason that the Eagles and Brisbane were given licences... it was all about $$$. The Eagles were literally set up to fail by the VFL at the time.
What if Leon Wiegard had stuck to his guns and voted "no"? How would the Australian Football landscape look now?
A definite sliding doors moment. Given how many of the VFL and WAFL clubs at the time were close to bankruptcy there would have been a lot more teams lost to footy forever than just Fitzroy.
Fitzroy's senior list voted overwhelmingly to move to Brisbane in 1987, in order to keep their talented list together.
So, I think that the Lions move north by 1987 & the Bears 🐨 never existed
@@insertnamehere5809That would've been a better outcome than the current Brisbane Lions. The Lions would've kept their history intact like the Swans did when they left South Melbourne for Sydney.
@@peterkehoe481 The new 1987 Brisbane Lions would have had Gary Pert, Alastair Lynch, Paul Roos, Scott McIvor, Doug Barwick & Richard Osborne plus the rights to Michael Voss, Nathan Buckley, Darryl White & Marcus Ashcroft (being from Queensland and the Northern Territory).
Also, they would have been at the GABBA & they wouldn't have had Christopher Skase.
Haha Dennis 19:45