Yes very true...Ross Oakley was responsible for VFL park also and didn't give a stuff about what happened to Hawthorn, North melbourne or St.Kilda for that matter.. True cold bastard !
codeword Its a pathetic excuse and I say that as a longtime Sydney supporter. We got bailed out by the league twice in the 90’s until finally getting it right ironically in 1996. The league could’ve easily bailed Fitzroy out without leaving them to die.
he also had a 6 year long obsession with getting Port Adelaide into the AFL at Fitzroy's cost, as well as the cost of the Bears, that contributed to the rivalry the Brisbane Lions and Port have today
i was at that game as a richmond supporter i felt sick watching those pricks from the afl destroy a proud club that should still be with us fitzroy youll never be forgotten.
I was born with Fitzroy FC running through my blood, my uncle coached them and played for the, at one stage. When they were destroyed by c&*ts who ran the comp our family literally divided in supporter between Footscray and Brisbane...My immediate family went straight for Footscray as myself and my siblings were born there and my aunties still persisted with Brisbane and my sister. And to this day it remains that way..hopefully this year it's the dogs v lions in the final. Im very bitter about Fitzroy and also being called the Western bulldogs, we are Footscray
Although i'm a diehard tigers fan, i almost wanted fitzroy to win this game... i was sickened by what i saw, very sad day indeed. Great club song & jumper.
I can't watch it without ever getting emotional I was there that day it was the first time I have ever seen opposition supporters singing a rival club song it was the worst game I've ever been to & I would never want to go though that day again 😢
Harry Williams Why at least you got to see their last game. Too many Melbourne clubs for a national competition. Unfortunately one had to bite the dust. It should've remained the VFL, fuck the AFL, the game is shit anyways today.
This from a Melbourne Boy (left in '92) now in Brisbane - Thanks for this emjoi. I never got to see this awesome footage. Its great you posted it. Am a Hawks supporter but Fitzroy were my dads team and my first game in '89. Great!
demetriou is a aggorant bugger . this was the saddest day for me . i was original a fitzroy supporter i cried so much . i have now go for the mighty brisbane lions . i miss our old club . LION FAN FOR EVER
I just like to sing this song... Ahem.. Oh we are the boys of old Fitzroy We are the colours Red Gold and Blue. We will always fight for victory. And we'll always see it through. Win or lose, do or die. In the end, we'll always try. Fitzroy, Fitzroy. A club that we all hold dear, Premiers we will be this year.... *Cries*
If Fitzroy could hold out a few more years, perhaps just until the 2000s era, they may have survived, especially with the money that entered the game around then. Shame to see them gone, and who knows what the AFL would be like now, if they stayed around
As a lifelong Fitzroy supporter I was at that match with my boys, I haven't been to an AFL match since. Have lost interest in footy nowadays with its political shit matches and greed.
I’m a Rugby League man and I lost my team North Sydney Bears a foundation club for the purpose of expansion. These teams are the heart of the game. But at least Fitzroy is remembered in the back of Brisbane jersey. Sydney Swans have the logo of South Melbourne. To me that’s better than loosing your team completely
@@clevelandwilliams5922 They DID do North Sydney real dirty in the NRL, didn't they? Like, I'm seeing the history of Manly and the way North was and has been obliterated from history...sad, really.
I’m a Brisbane lions fan my self being raised in Queensland but I can’t imagine how they would of felt getting the team team that they supported for that long and getting it taken away from u especially kids, I just can’t imagine how I would feel if Brisbane get moved for example to Tasmania I would be miserable so the afl should of helped them out but at the same time they didn’t give Brisbane much help when they came into the league they gave all of the money to the other teams with afl states but Brisbane just got no help especially with the grounds they had like with the storage containers as change rooms but when I grow up I’m gonna tell my kids (if I have any) about Fitzroy and what happen and keep them going farewell Fitzroy lions
OMG.. I've never seen anything like this in footy EVER!! Just so sad... :'( :'( :'( This was before my time so i never got to see this and never understood what happened to them and why. Clearly this would not happen today. What a shame!
We survived SOS and 30 years of failure Scott and now we are back with 60,000 members and in the top 8. Sad to see Fitzroy no longer there. Sad when any club goes....get aboard the Tiger Train Scott. Plenty of room for all.
Fitzroy was a young club. Experienced players had ditched the place for security, leaving the club with a skeleton crew. Had they continued for a few more seasons, they would have had success, but they would never have any support. But the books was not my argument. It was about the talent and a shame that the full talent was never realised under the Fitzroy banner.
On another note, hearing the song on the TV coverage sounded so much better when it could be heard as it was echoing through the stands instead of being played directly over the coverage, like there's a charm to it, especially with the old Victorian tunes. Anyone else notice/agree with this?
Many of the Fitzroy players who played in this game agree that the fans of both teams were terrific, however the Richmond players treated them very poorly during the game, with extremely spiteful sledging.
Fitzroy could have easily been saved. If it was possible to make the new teams in Port Adelaide and what not, why couldn't they save the club that set up the fucking comp!
48,884 turned up to this game. Fitzroy's 1996 side would beat Carlton and Melbourne today. Shame that a club founded 113 years earlier with a desire to defeat neighbouring suburbs having to play their last game 2500km away in Perth against Fremantle, a club barely 18 months old.
If the afl just let Fitzroy merge with north Melbourne you would of had 2 struggling Melbourne clubs turn into a big financial club... i feel sorry for all the lions fans that we lost to the game. They were only 1.5 million in debt. Look at st.kilda Has Carlton who are both over 6 million in debt and the Gold Coast and gws who can only draw 10,000 per game yet they get rid of Fitzroy a club who won 8 premierships....
Pretty crazy how the AFL creates teams in areas where they'd rather watch sniff bum or thugby just to try and get more money instead of saving one of the oldest clubs in the world.
This was indeed a very sad day for football, and I really do hope it doesn’t happen again. Although in saying that, if the AFL were to reintroduce a Heritage Round, Brisbane could either play a game in Melbourne, away of course, and wear the Fitzroy strip, or the Bears strip if they have a home game.
Fitzroy had their most experienced players retire, and many others also left to go elsewhere. They lose Paul Broderick, John Blakey, Richard Osborne, Paul Roos and Alastair Lynch in the space of a few years and ripped the heart out of the core of the team. If Fitzroy had several more years, they would have been a lot better. And you clearly know nothing about the game about that 'worst club ever' statement. Look up the club called, 'University'. Fitzroy won 8 premierships by 1944.
University left out of desire. The VFL was not for them, and they required players to be in university, so they weren't all about footy. It was a very unique team. Fitzroy's relocation was not due to malice or onfield performance, it was off-field financial management.
@@uraniumdeath Lost 52 in a row. But they were different, since you had to be in university to play in the club, and during the middle of the year, they were more focused on their exams than football, so of course their performance decreased. They did little training and had few supporters.
Nice info. I didn't know you strictly had to be a student to play, but thanks for that tidbit Regardless, they're still the worst team ever to play and were seemingly at a broad disadvantage
At 5.54 a sign is being held up "F--K the AFL" true then and now ... Long live poor Fitzroy .... Go Demons thank God we didn't merge that same year with the much respected but I dont want to marry Hawks =/
5th Line FFC: Win Or Lose we do or die BLFC: All for one and one for all 6th Line FFC: In defeat we always try BLFC: We will answer to the call 7th Line FFC: Fitzroy, Fitzroy, The Club we hold so dear BLFC: Go Lions, Brisbane Lions, We'll kick the winning score 8th Line FFC: Premiers, We'll be this year BLFC: You'll hear the mighty roar
Disrespectful that they interviewed Richo straight after the siren when a 100+ year old club was dying in front of their eyes. I've never warmed to the Brisbane Lions. It was like the death of 2 clubs in 1996 and I still occasionally call them the Bears. In 30 years time it won't matter, all us 'old-timers' will be gone No one remembers University. I have the same pathetic nostalgia for the New Zealand Knights in the A-League!
Victoria says goodbye to Fitzroy? I think everybody misses Fitzroy. They had some great youngsters coming through. They had Chris Johnson, Jarrod Molloy, Brad Boyd (shame about his career), Simon Hawking, Shane Clayton etc. They had a lot of promise. By 1998 they would have started to win more games.
The meaning of your statement can be taken several ways. Their final match was against Fremantle, which they lost in round 22. Their final win came earlier in the season (round 7?) against Fremantle. Just thought I'd clarify that.
Fitzroy was almost relocated to Brisbane at the end of 1986 but the club wanted to be privately owned & stay here in Melbourne. Ross Oakley stop that moved. In 1990 Fitzroy pushed a proposal to relocate to Tasmania but he yet again blocked that move
That is why I said in my original comment a year ago that Ross Oakley was an absolute criminal. A relocated Fitzroy with the name of Brisbane Lions would've been more readily accepted by Fitzroy supporters in the same way the Sydney Swans have with old South Melbourne supporters than having a fresh team from Brisbane come in and then merge with them and dissolve their identity a decade later.
You cut more teams like this you lose more fans. We need to fight other codes ie soccer. This never should have happened and must never happen again. Ps good to see Richmond supporters show their support
It wouldn't have taken too much to interview a Fitzroy player. Oh, the commentators sounded genuine. Of course, Richardson is going to say everything's good. Fitzroy haven't been allowed to play their last game in Melbourne. The AFL/VFL couldn't wait to see the back of Fitzroy. All the other clubs were getting handouts. Fitzroy got nothing. Thanks for nothing, Ross Oakley
@@RS-rj5sh Fitzroy actually was one of the most successful clubs in AFL history, they won at least 8 premierships..unlike the Saints with 1 and dogs with 2
@@bennuballbags2 not in their last 50 odd years ....I think the last flag was in 1944.....so a half a century had passed when they bit the dust in mid 90's....that ain't a great record
it was the day a foundation club died a club whos shoulders the competition we enjoy today was built on . and im wondering how many games did blokes like kevin murray and mick conlan play for the brisbane lions the answer is zero
Well I was only 2 years old here and didnt start following the footy til 2001, but this nearly brought tears to my eyes. Even though Brisbane were originally a seperate team, I still consider them as a relocated Fitzroy in spirit. As someone else has said, fuck GWS and Gold Coast, bring back Fitzroy.
Fitzroy has nothing to do with Brisbane....all they had as FFC on the Guernsey thats it. Fuck it pisses me off that the AFL left Fitzroy to die when after they made GWS and GC....no one likes footy there! Why spend all that money? They could have save FFC, so sad..I would never bag Adelaide Crows or Port....those teams have been round for as long as any VFL side and Western OZ teams, those leagues in SA are the best in OZ
My first game I went to was Geelong and Fitzroy in 1993, even though I went for Geelong, I had a place in my heart for Fitzroy. You know that song by Greg Champion? Deep in our hearts everyone goes for Fitzroy. Because Fitzroy is the most loveable team we have got.
Apparently, The AFL had to make room for Port Adelaide at the Expense of Fitzroy, Financial Pressures in the Early 1990's led to the Lions Merging with the Equally Strapped Brisbane Bears at the end of 1996.
Brad Boyd had back problems. He was probably one of the highest rated youngsters to go to Brisbane from Fitzroy too. But yeah...his back gave him problems for a while and he eventually succumbed. In some sense, a football tragedy.
Corrections... *From old Fitzroy We WEAR the colours Maroon and Blue Win or lose WE do or die A club we hold so dear Premiers we'll be this year A good song though.
Port adelaide are not in debt.1 They and the crows have a poor stadium deal and that the money they earn goes back to funding the sanfl. The afl only gave them one million dollars of the five million dollars. Also the six million dollars that fitzroy had would be easily 12 million in todays money. I am a brisbane lions fan. I wish that it would go back to state based comps. And i wish that fitzroy were back in the vfl.
1st Line FFC: We are the Boys from Old Fitzroy BLFC: We are the Pride of Brisbane town 2nd Line FFC: We wear the colours Maroon and Blue BLFC: We wear Maroon, Blue and Gold 4th Line FFC: And We'll Always See it Through BLFC: Like Fitzroy and Bears of Old
Wouldn't make gold coast the 1 Qld team, they have no supporters/members, Brisbane and gold coast should merge and re establish Fitzroy, the Brisbane lions premiership team was mostly Fitzroy players anyway
@@alexthemaltesefalcon5418 You had me until you said that GC forms with Brisbane to go to... Melbourne? That would leave QLD without an AFL team. They still deserve a team.
@@bearmarco1944 you are very likely correct, Aslong as they don't beat the cats, 😋 Would love to see Fitzroy back tho, I'm a traditionalist and Fitzroy didn't deserve to die like they did
Also emjoi, interested to know - how much did Fitzroy's song change from Brisbane Lions song? Words sound a bit different. Can i hear the original anywhere somehow??
151 points to think 11 years later richmond were pumped similar like that yet whose still playing footy. For those who left fitzroy and never watch footy again i hope you read this and be ashamed at yourselves for being degenerates and not supporting the game in general for those who stayed on you should be proud for those who support other teams now well you done well.
University, I remember them. Didn't they lose there players to the war? Not really sure what happened, but brisbane will always be known as the Bears to me. There wil be more clubs lost in the future, just who it will be that's the question?
@17mintz Found myself thinking that. There used to be a vid up, but for some stupid copyright law, the vid can only be viewed inside the US. Fancy that, a freaking AFL video and *we* can't watch it!
I don't understand why the AFL has to merge clubs & then create brand new clubs, why couldn't have relegated Fitzroy to the VFL & promote a new team in Brisbane from their state league? Lol it makes our game look unorganized
Its hard to go from supporting one Vic side to another Vic side. If Richmond were to die I'd end up as a luke ward supporter of someone like Port or the Lions.
Its sad when footy teams are "franchises" and not clubs anymore.. Long gone is "SPORT" - welcome big business.. GIve it 5-10 yrs, will be like soccer with $10,000,000 transfer fees and wages and clubs burning up faster than a paddle pop stick hitting the suns surface.
Sportsdelivered have it on DVD if you're willing to part with $35. www.sportsdelivered.com/dvd/1996-round-21-richmond-def-fitzroy/13095.html Thanks for watching!
no but you still give it a go but if the afl had a heart your game against freo should of been played in melbourne but if you ask me the afl should have done more to protect one of the vfls foundation members
What a shame Fitzroy went under really shows the AFL do't care about football. It is amazing how the AFl got away with this. Obviously the afl have all the right connections to be able to commit a crime and get away with it. Everyone and anyone else would be in jail if they did anything like this. Fitzroy supporters you were treated like dogs. I did not even barrack for Fitzroy and ever since the AFL got rid of the Roy boys Fitzroy i stopped watching AFL. I will never watch it again. I now follow NRL.!!!!
Because there where too many teams in Melbourne. They wanted Port Adelaide into the competition since the early 1990’s. Fitzroy survived for 10 years out of the back of the members & supporters but at the end of the day Ross Oakley got what he wanted
ha! as good as brisbane have been, richmond have the wood on them and normally beat them...even this year when tigess are real shit, lions couldn't beat us.
Sad day indeed - I was there.
Thanks for the memories
Fitzroy Football Club 1883-1996
R.I.P.
@J G Soccer: beloved by lady boys the world over.....
@J G Yeah but in Europe
Ross Oakley was a deadset criminal. How the Lions were left to die is one of the darkest chapters in the league's history.
Yes very true...Ross Oakley was responsible for VFL park also and didn't give a stuff about what happened to Hawthorn, North melbourne or St.Kilda for that matter.. True cold bastard !
well fitzroy had not money
codeword Its a pathetic excuse and I say that as a longtime Sydney supporter. We got bailed out by the league twice in the 90’s until finally getting it right ironically in 1996. The league could’ve easily bailed Fitzroy out without leaving them to die.
he also had a 6 year long obsession with getting Port Adelaide into the AFL at Fitzroy's cost, as well as the cost of the Bears, that contributed to the rivalry the Brisbane Lions and Port have today
They literally won 1 game in their last season and lost their last game in vid by 130+ they also had no money they had to go
i was at that game as a richmond supporter i felt sick watching those pricks from the afl destroy a proud club that should still be with us fitzroy youll never be forgotten.
I was born with Fitzroy FC running through my blood, my uncle coached them and played for the, at one stage. When they were destroyed by c&*ts who ran the comp our family literally divided in supporter between Footscray and Brisbane...My immediate family went straight for Footscray as myself and my siblings were born there and my aunties still persisted with Brisbane and my sister. And to this day it remains that way..hopefully this year it's the dogs v lions in the final. Im very bitter about Fitzroy and also being called the Western bulldogs, we are Footscray
I put money in your cans, to help try and save, being a tiger supporter. No foundation club should be treated like that
This is the most appreciative comment I've seen.
Well said mate. Here here
Although i'm a diehard tigers fan, i almost wanted fitzroy to win this game... i was sickened by what i saw, very sad day indeed. Great club song & jumper.
My favorite line in the theme:
"Win or lose,we do or die!
In defeat we'll always try!"
I was on the ground when they ran for the last time. Was 5 years old but still remains one of my best memories.
20 years ago today 😔😢
Long live Fitzroy.
Thanks for the memories.
@M you’re a malaka
I can't watch it without ever getting emotional I was there that day it was the first time I have ever seen opposition supporters singing a rival club song it was the worst game I've ever been to & I would never want to go though that day again 😢
Harry Williams
Why at least you got to see their last game. Too many Melbourne clubs for a national competition. Unfortunately one had to bite the dust. It should've remained the VFL, fuck the AFL, the game is shit anyways today.
Wish he’d shut up talking to Richardson and let Fitzroy enjoy the moment
It wasn't their last game, after all.
@@bearmarco1944was in Melbourne so it was for the vast majority of the crowd
@@sliat1981 fair enough
@LukaRulez-mz1ht knew
5:55 best banner I've seen
This from a Melbourne Boy (left in '92) now in Brisbane - Thanks for this emjoi. I never got to see this awesome footage. Its great you posted it. Am a Hawks supporter but Fitzroy were my dads team and my first game in '89. Great!
Sad to see the demise of Fitzroy. As a Richmond man I didn’t get any satisfaction from that match at all.
demetriou is a aggorant bugger . this was the saddest day for me . i was original a fitzroy supporter i cried so much . i have now go for the mighty brisbane lions . i miss our old club . LION FAN FOR EVER
I was there on that day,i am one eyed Richmond,but that was a very sad day for footy....i really love seeing Brisbane wear the old Fitzroy colours....
im crying im a doggie supporter and this is just herrendous . this is the era when the afl lost its sould rip fitzroy
Kevin Sheedy and James Hird went out the same way. Losing to Richmond in the 2nd last game and having to travel to Perth for the last time ever!
Did Ch7 really have to speak to Richo for that long? Should have cut that as soon as Fitzroy started their lap.
It wasn't Fitzroy's last game.
Imagine doing a lap after getting out down by 151 points hahaha
I just like to sing this song...
Ahem..
Oh we are the boys of old Fitzroy
We are the colours Red Gold and Blue.
We will always fight for victory.
And we'll always see it through.
Win or lose, do or die.
In the end, we'll always try.
Fitzroy, Fitzroy.
A club that we all hold dear,
Premiers we will be this year....
*Cries*
If Fitzroy could hold out a few more years, perhaps just until the 2000s era, they may have survived, especially with the money that entered the game around then. Shame to see them gone, and who knows what the AFL would be like now, if they stayed around
As a lifelong Fitzroy supporter I was at that match with my boys, I haven't been to an AFL match since. Have lost interest in footy nowadays with its political shit matches and greed.
AFL should have saved Fitzroy what a joke when they pump up millions for clubs like the Gold Coast & GWS.
@@Aka_daka you just proved there agenda
I’m a Rugby League man and I lost my team North Sydney Bears a foundation club for the purpose of expansion. These teams are the heart of the game. But at least Fitzroy is remembered in the back of Brisbane jersey. Sydney Swans have the logo of South Melbourne. To me that’s better than loosing your team completely
@@Aka_daka The AFL isn't the same as it was 30 years ago. It's much more financially stable, and has the power to prop those developing teams up.
@@clevelandwilliams5922 They DID do North Sydney real dirty in the NRL, didn't they? Like, I'm seeing the history of Manly and the way North was and has been obliterated from history...sad, really.
I’m a Brisbane lions fan my self being raised in Queensland but I can’t imagine how they would of felt getting the team team that they supported for that long and getting it taken away from u especially kids, I just can’t imagine how I would feel if Brisbane get moved for example to Tasmania I would be miserable so the afl should of helped them out but at the same time they didn’t give Brisbane much help when they came into the league they gave all of the money to the other teams with afl states but Brisbane just got no help especially with the grounds they had like with the storage containers as change rooms but when I grow up I’m gonna tell my kids (if I have any) about Fitzroy and what happen and keep them going farewell Fitzroy lions
OMG.. I've never seen anything like this in footy EVER!! Just so sad... :'( :'( :'(
This was before my time so i never got to see this and never understood what happened to them and why. Clearly this would not happen today. What a shame!
Matty King It almost did happen again. North Melbourne only just escaped this same fate not so long ago.
zach336 You can largely thank Brayshaw for that. He put his foot down, and North haven't had to play a home game at Carrara since
Carlton almost folded in 2005
We survived SOS and 30 years of failure Scott and now we are back with 60,000 members and in the top 8. Sad to see Fitzroy no longer there. Sad when any club goes....get aboard the Tiger Train Scott. Plenty of room for all.
Fitzroy was a young club. Experienced players had ditched the place for security, leaving the club with a skeleton crew.
Had they continued for a few more seasons, they would have had success, but they would never have any support. But the books was not my argument. It was about the talent and a shame that the full talent was never realised under the Fitzroy banner.
The sad irony is that the merged club is in a worse state now than the two separate clubs were back in 1996
Anthony Kernich your not wrong.
We've had some great days in between though, and all teams ebb and flow, that's the point of the draft.
This aged well
Now, Brisbane have finished joint first 2 years in a row and only finished 2nd bc of point difference. Richmond were in this position 10 years ago
On another note, hearing the song on the TV coverage sounded so much better when it could be heard as it was echoing through the stands instead of being played directly over the coverage, like there's a charm to it, especially with the old Victorian tunes. Anyone else notice/agree with this?
Many of the Fitzroy players who played in this game agree that the fans of both teams were terrific, however the Richmond players treated them very poorly during the game, with extremely spiteful sledging.
that's typical of Richmond
Fitzroy could have easily been saved. If it was possible to make the new teams in Port Adelaide and what not, why couldn't they save the club that set up the fucking comp!
Damn this hits me in the feels.
48,884 turned up to this game.
Fitzroy's 1996 side would beat Carlton and Melbourne today. Shame that a club founded 113 years earlier with a desire to defeat neighbouring suburbs having to play their last game 2500km away in Perth against Fremantle, a club barely 18 months old.
At the time, Freo was young, but in the 1890s, Collingwood was young.
@@bearmarco1944 That is a pretty good way of putting it. In fact, there was nine years between Collingwood and Fitzroy being formed.
@@MRB16th Cheers.
The VFL/AFL pouring Millions into Gold Coast suns & GWS could not save a club with so much History is absolutely disgusting... *Collingwood Fan*
absoultely true
I’m a blues supporter and I 100% agree. Fitzroy should still be apart of the AFL
If the afl just let Fitzroy merge with north Melbourne you would of had 2 struggling Melbourne clubs turn into a big financial club... i feel sorry for all the lions fans that we lost to the game. They were only 1.5 million in debt. Look at st.kilda Has Carlton who are both over 6 million in debt and the Gold Coast and gws who can only draw 10,000 per game yet they get rid of Fitzroy a club who won 8 premierships....
as a Fitzroy fan.. that;s never gonna happen
you can see me run on to the MCG here
Now we have 18 teams including GC$ and GW$.
Pretty crazy how the AFL creates teams in areas where they'd rather watch sniff bum or thugby just to try and get more money instead of saving one of the oldest clubs in the world.
2 great institutions: Fitzroy and Richo.
This was indeed a very sad day for football, and I really do hope it doesn’t happen again. Although in saying that, if the AFL were to reintroduce a Heritage Round, Brisbane could either play a game in Melbourne, away of course, and wear the Fitzroy strip, or the Bears strip if they have a home game.
Fitzroy had their most experienced players retire, and many others also left to go elsewhere.
They lose Paul Broderick, John Blakey, Richard Osborne, Paul Roos and Alastair Lynch in the space of a few years and ripped the heart out of the core of the team.
If Fitzroy had several more years, they would have been a lot better.
And you clearly know nothing about the game about that 'worst club ever' statement.
Look up the club called, 'University'.
Fitzroy won 8 premierships by 1944.
University left out of desire. The VFL was not for them, and they required players to be in university, so they weren't all about footy. It was a very unique team.
Fitzroy's relocation was not due to malice or onfield performance, it was off-field financial management.
University also lost a lot of their players due to the war but yes, they were still the worst team ever. The results speak for themselves.
@@uraniumdeath Lost 52 in a row. But they were different, since you had to be in university to play in the club, and during the middle of the year, they were more focused on their exams than football, so of course their performance decreased. They did little training and had few supporters.
Nice info. I didn't know you strictly had to be a student to play, but thanks for that tidbit
Regardless, they're still the worst team ever to play and were seemingly at a broad disadvantage
At 5.54 a sign is being held up "F--K the AFL" true then and now ... Long live poor Fitzroy .... Go Demons thank God we didn't merge that same year with the much respected but I dont want to marry Hawks =/
'Oi Ross Oakley go f--k yourself because you trashed the AFL". I'll write on his obituary.
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5th Line
FFC: Win Or Lose we do or die
BLFC: All for one and one for all
6th Line
FFC: In defeat we always try
BLFC: We will answer to the call
7th Line
FFC: Fitzroy, Fitzroy, The Club we hold so dear
BLFC: Go Lions, Brisbane Lions, We'll kick the winning score
8th Line
FFC: Premiers, We'll be this year
BLFC: You'll hear the mighty roar
@carnival111 yeah i was a fitzroy supporter there is hardly any fitzroy left in the lions, the AFL isnt the same without them.
Disrespectful that they interviewed Richo straight after the siren when a 100+ year old club was dying in front of their eyes.
I've never warmed to the Brisbane Lions. It was like the death of 2 clubs in 1996 and I still occasionally call them the Bears.
In 30 years time it won't matter, all us 'old-timers' will be gone No one remembers University.
I have the same pathetic nostalgia for the New Zealand Knights in the A-League!
I completely forgot they used to be called the Bears😆
Victoria says goodbye to Fitzroy?
I think everybody misses Fitzroy. They had some great youngsters coming through. They had Chris Johnson, Jarrod Molloy, Brad Boyd (shame about his career), Simon Hawking, Shane Clayton etc. They had a lot of promise. By 1998 they would have started to win more games.
The meaning of your statement can be taken several ways.
Their final match was against Fremantle, which they lost in round 22.
Their final win came earlier in the season (round 7?) against Fremantle.
Just thought I'd clarify that.
A relocated Fitzroy, well said - I have always thought that Fitzroy and Tasmania were far more deserving of teams than GWS and Gold Coast.
As a Suns fan, and coming from the Gold Coast, I couldn't agree more.
Because I love Fitzroy more
MRB16th I'm from Tasmania but it cost way too much to run a club RIP BRANX HOLM 1868-2014
Fitzroy was almost relocated to Brisbane at the end of 1986 but the club wanted to be privately owned & stay here in Melbourne. Ross Oakley stop that moved. In 1990 Fitzroy pushed a proposal to relocate to Tasmania but he yet again blocked that move
That is why I said in my original comment a year ago that Ross Oakley was an absolute criminal. A relocated Fitzroy with the name of Brisbane Lions would've been more readily accepted by Fitzroy supporters in the same way the Sydney Swans have with old South Melbourne supporters than having a fresh team from Brisbane come in and then merge with them and dissolve their identity a decade later.
I was there that day as a 12 yo and was lucky enough to run out with the boys. A day I’ll never forget ❤️
You cut more teams like this you lose more fans. We need to fight other codes ie soccer. This never should have happened and must never happen again.
Ps good to see Richmond supporters show their support
It wouldn't have taken too much to interview a Fitzroy player. Oh, the commentators sounded genuine. Of course, Richardson is going to say everything's good. Fitzroy haven't been allowed to play their last game in Melbourne. The AFL/VFL couldn't wait to see the back of Fitzroy. All the other clubs were getting handouts. Fitzroy got nothing. Thanks for nothing, Ross Oakley
Fitzroy had the first recorded Indigenous player, Joe Johnson. Deadly.❤
Didn't help em much
@@RS-rj5sh Fitzroy actually was one of the most successful clubs in AFL history, they won at least 8 premierships..unlike the Saints with 1 and dogs with 2
@@bennuballbags2 not in their last 50 odd years ....I think the last flag was in 1944.....so a half a century had passed when they bit the dust in mid 90's....that ain't a great record
it was the day a foundation club died a club whos shoulders the competition we enjoy today was built on .
and im wondering how many games did blokes like kevin murray and mick conlan play for the brisbane lions the answer is zero
Well I was only 2 years old here and didnt start following the footy til 2001, but this nearly brought tears to my eyes. Even though Brisbane were originally a seperate team, I still consider them as a relocated Fitzroy in spirit. As someone else has said, fuck GWS and Gold Coast, bring back Fitzroy.
mans unhappy it's a national competition
Fitzroy has nothing to do with Brisbane....all they had as FFC on the Guernsey thats it. Fuck it pisses me off that the AFL left Fitzroy to die when after they made GWS and GC....no one likes footy there! Why spend all that money? They could have save FFC, so sad..I would never bag Adelaide Crows or Port....those teams have been round for as long as any VFL side and Western OZ teams, those leagues in SA are the best in OZ
My first game I went to was Geelong and Fitzroy in 1993, even though I went for Geelong, I had a place in my heart for Fitzroy.
You know that song by Greg Champion?
Deep in our hearts everyone goes for Fitzroy.
Because Fitzroy is the most loveable team we have got.
I was there on this day... Thank you Richmond, you guys aren't so bad
Scott Sandars could of been worse coukd of been collingwood lol
Apparently, The AFL had to make room for Port Adelaide at the Expense of Fitzroy, Financial Pressures in the Early 1990's led to the Lions Merging with the Equally Strapped Brisbane Bears at the end of 1996.
They had earlier tried to get Footscray and Fitzroy to merge in 1989
God they copped some thrashing in 96
So sad
Brad Boyd had back problems. He was probably one of the highest rated youngsters to go to Brisbane from Fitzroy too. But yeah...his back gave him problems for a while and he eventually succumbed. In some sense, a football tragedy.
that was cruel of richmond. they had already won convincingly, they didn't have 2 completely humiliate them
i miss fitzroy.
at 4:18 u can see me in the crowd on the fence...He he so exciting
Long Live the Roys!
Corrections...
*From old Fitzroy
We WEAR the colours Maroon and Blue
Win or lose WE do or die
A club we hold so dear
Premiers we'll be this year
A good song though.
Agreed, I always wished brisbane would have just came to fitzroy, it was a sad sad day and im a tiger fan.
No way I’m from Queensland and I don’t know what I would of done without afl but the afl should of tried harder instead of just giving up
Port adelaide are not in debt.1 They and the crows have a poor stadium deal and that the money they earn goes back to funding the sanfl. The afl only gave them one million dollars of the five million dollars. Also the six million dollars that fitzroy had would be easily 12 million in todays money. I am a brisbane lions fan. I wish that it would go back to state based comps. And i wish that fitzroy were back in the vfl.
@SydneyFCPete Money man. Those two areas are a bloody gold mine for the AFL if they can get people involved in games.
Is there any possibility of Fitzroy reentering the league?
1st Line
FFC: We are the Boys from Old Fitzroy
BLFC: We are the Pride of Brisbane town
2nd Line
FFC: We wear the colours Maroon and Blue
BLFC: We wear Maroon, Blue and Gold
4th Line
FFC: And We'll Always See it Through
BLFC: Like Fitzroy and Bears of Old
Make Gold Coast the one Queensland team (1 in a rugby state is enough) and bring Fitzroy back!
Wouldn't make gold coast the 1 Qld team, they have no supporters/members, Brisbane and gold coast should merge and re establish Fitzroy, the Brisbane lions premiership team was mostly Fitzroy players anyway
@@alexthemaltesefalcon5418 You had me until you said that GC forms with Brisbane to go to... Melbourne? That would leave QLD without an AFL team. They still deserve a team.
@@bearmarco1944 Brisbane and gc merge, stay in Qld,
Reform Fitzroy in Melbourne was what I meant
@@alexthemaltesefalcon5418 Ah, ok. I see. Good idea, and would probably bring Brisbane a premiership or GF appearance.
@@bearmarco1944 you are very likely correct,
Aslong as they don't beat the cats, 😋
Would love to see Fitzroy back tho, I'm a traditionalist and Fitzroy didn't deserve to die like they did
This wont ever happen again.
Also emjoi, interested to know - how much did Fitzroy's song change from Brisbane Lions song? Words sound a bit different. Can i hear the original anywhere somehow??
injustice thats exactly it. i still call bulldogs footscray even though they arent and fitzroy were treated so shit.
why call the bullys footscray?
This is the only time I can think of that the losing team’s song was played after the game
For a good reason too!
151 points to think 11 years later richmond were pumped similar like that yet whose still playing footy.
For those who left fitzroy and never watch footy again i hope you read this and be ashamed at yourselves for being degenerates and not supporting the game in general for those who stayed on you should be proud
for those who support other teams now well you done well.
I am crying
Could you put up video of Fitzroy's last game ever (Round 22 1996 vs Fremantle) please?
University, I remember them. Didn't they lose there players to the war? Not really sure what happened, but brisbane will always be known as the Bears to me. There wil be more clubs lost in the future, just who it will be that's the question?
@17mintz Found myself thinking that. There used to be a vid up, but for some stupid copyright law, the vid can only be viewed inside the US. Fancy that, a freaking AFL video and *we* can't watch it!
I don't understand why the AFL has to merge clubs & then create brand new clubs, why couldn't have relegated Fitzroy to the VFL & promote a new team in Brisbane from their state league? Lol it makes our game look unorganized
Its hard to go from supporting one Vic side to another Vic side. If Richmond were to die I'd end up as a luke ward supporter of someone like Port or the Lions.
RIP!
Its sad when footy teams are "franchises" and not clubs anymore..
Long gone is "SPORT" - welcome big business.. GIve it 5-10 yrs, will be like soccer with $10,000,000 transfer fees and wages and clubs burning up faster than a paddle pop stick hitting the suns surface.
Yeah, I wasn't 100% sure...hence the question mark next to the 7.
Does anybody know where can I get this entire game to watch?
Sportsdelivered have it on DVD if you're willing to part with $35.
www.sportsdelivered.com/dvd/1996-round-21-richmond-def-fitzroy/13095.html
Thanks for watching!
Wow thanks heaps for that. Yesss I am willing to pay $35. I also want to get the rd4 1995 tiges vs north game, I will check the same site.
Chris its on UA-cam ive watched it.
Interesting to see Richmond win a match.
no but you still give it a go but if the afl had a heart your game against freo should of been played in melbourne but if you ask me the afl should have done more to protect one of the vfls foundation members
They also want to close or move the Footscray Bulldogs, was it merely a coincidence it was the two working class suburbs teams?
Then you look at who they were playing. :(
Richmond finished 9th that year after they finished 3rd the year before.
Does anyone know were i can download the whole game?
If it wasn't for Fitzroy the lions would not have 3 grandfinals
bullshit, how many Fitzroy players played in 01-03 Premierships????? 1 Chris Johnson
What a shame Fitzroy went under really shows the AFL do't care about football. It is amazing how the AFl got away with this. Obviously the afl have all the right connections to be able to commit a crime and get away with it. Everyone and anyone else would be in jail if they did anything like this. Fitzroy supporters you were treated like dogs. I did not even barrack for Fitzroy and ever since the AFL got rid of the Roy boys Fitzroy i stopped watching AFL. I will never watch it again. I now follow NRL.!!!!
willy sorenson they’ve already merged 3 teams! They’re worse!
willy sorenson Fitzroy sucks
Whish that they were still here.
If only Michael Bowers would watch this...
Disgrace that they let this happen
Why exactly couldn't raise the money to stay in comp?
Why can't the dam AFL donate us money. At least give us half a million bucks.
Because there where too many teams in Melbourne. They wanted Port Adelaide into the competition since the early 1990’s. Fitzroy survived for 10 years out of the back of the members & supporters but at the end of the day Ross Oakley got what he wanted
Farewell Fitzroy
Big shame that the club couldn't do a 'South Sydney" and get back in...
Shame on the AFL for eroding the Fitzroy name.
ha! as good as brisbane have been, richmond have the wood on them and normally beat them...even this year when tigess are real shit, lions couldn't beat us.
4.35 Simon Atkins was shocked