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The Brisbane Lions have since renewed and maintained strong ties with the Fitzroy Football Club in the VAFA and the Fitzroy junior football club. The Brisbane Lions sponsor a male and female Fitzroy player each year, conduct coaching workshops for Fitzroy, frequently invite the Fitzroy juniors to form a guard of honour for Victorian games, and ...
The Brisbane Lions are an Australian rules football club. The Queensland-based expansion club was formed in 1987, as the Brisbane Bears. [1] In late 1996, via a deal with the administrator of the 1883 VFL/AFL foundation club Fitzroy Football Club, Fitzroy's club operations at the AFL level were merged with that of the Bears.
Only eight Fitzroy players became Brisbane Lions players, [7] with the majority of the team coming from the Brisbane Bears list. Carter, however, was one of those eight players. [ 7 ] In his two seasons with Brisbane, Carter only managed to play five games, [ 8 ] struggling to break into the senior side of a team with what Martin Blake ...
The rivalry between the Brisbane Lions and Port Adelaide can be traced back to July 1996 when the Fitzroy Football Club and the Brisbane Bears merged to form the Brisbane Lions as Port Adelaide were due to enter the AFL with the Brisbane Lions in 1997. Fans of both Fitzroy and the Brisbane Bears were disappointed at losing their clubs as ...
In 1997, after the merger between Fitzroy and the Brisbane Bears to create the Brisbane Lions, Wilson founded the Fitzroy–Brisbane Lions Historical Society with George Coates, creator of Fitzroy's logo. He was the president of the Society from 1997 to 2010, and was the chairman. He helped found a Fitzroy museum at Docklands Stadium. [6]
The Brisbane Bears would then change their name to Brisbane Bears-Fitzroy Football Club (trading as Brisbane Lions), playing at The Gabba in the Brisbane suburb of Woolloongabba. The arrangement ensured that all creditors were repaid, at least eight Fitzroy players were to be selected by the Brisbane Lions before the 1996 National Draft and ...
Fitzroy Brisbane Lions: 1994–2007 264 172 Indigenous Team of the Century Premiership: 2001, 2002, 2003 All-Australian: 2002, 2004 Brisbane Lions captain: 2007 Joe Johnson: Fitzroy: 1904–1906: 55 15 Premiership: 1904, 1905: Michael Johnson: Fremantle: 2005–2018 244 68 All-Australian: 2013: Percy Johnson: North Melbourne: 1951–1955 52 4 ...
The Brisbane Bears was the name for a professional Australian rules football club based in Brisbane, Queensland, now known as the Brisbane Lions. Granted a Victorian Football League license in 1986, it was the first privately owned club in the history of the competition and debuted in the 1987 VFL season .