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This list deals with Australian rules football rivalries in Australia and around the world. This includes club teams, which compete in local derbies as well as matches between club teams further afield.
Tom Fullarton (born 23 February 1999) is an Australian rules footballer and former basketball player who currently plays for the Melbourne Demons in the Australian Football League (AFL). Basketball career
The Lions then played the Melbourne Demons in the Semi-Final, and upset the reigning premiers against all odds, bundling them out in straight sets with a score of 92–79 to progress to their second Preliminary Final under Fagan, taking on Geelong once again in a rematch of the 2020 Preliminary Final.
The sum of margins of 13 points across six consecutive meetings is by far the narrowest in VFL/AFL history, with 28 points (South Melbourne vs Melbourne, 28 points, 1898–1900) the nearest challenger for six consecutive games. In Round 4, 2008, the era of consistently close games came to an end when the Swans smashed the Eagles by 62 points.
Both the Brisbane Lions and the Melbourne Demons finished at the top of the ladder at the end of the home and away season. In an attempt to secure the top spot in the final round, Melbourne booted 11.13 (79) against a hapless West Coast, keeping their opponent to a single point. [1]
The club nearly merged with North Melbourne to form the Fitzroy-North Melbourne Kangaroos but the other clubs voted against it. In 1994 Port Adelaide was awarded an AFL licence but could not enter until a Victorian team had folded or merged. At the end of 1996 Fitzroy played its last match and merged with Brisbane to form the Brisbane Lions. [31]
The 2010 Melbourne Football Club season was the club's 111th year in the VFL/AFL since it began in 1897. Melbourne played 14 games at the MCG, 10 of which were home games. They also played a home match at TIO Stadium in Darwin against Port Adelaide in Round 9. [1] It was Dean Bailey's third year as senior coach.
Brisbane Lions playing in Melbourne wearing the 1968 to 1973 Fitzroy jumper for the 2003 heritage round Three successive premierships for the Brisbane Lions in 2001, 2002 and 2003 saw crowds to Australian Football League matches in Brisbane to grow to an average of over 30,000, and in terms of attendance and membership, the AFL team in 2003 was ...