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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 ...
Johnson began his professional AFL career with Fitzroy in 1994. He was awarded a nomination in the 1994 AFL Rising Star award in round 21. [3]He was one of eight players allowed to transfer to Brisbane when Fitzroy's AFL operations were taken over by the Brisbane Bears to form the Brisbane Lions. [4]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 following is a list of coaches to have coached the Brisbane Lions, an Australian rules football club which fields teams in the AFL (1997–present) and AFL Women's (2017–present). AFL coaches [ edit ]
Statistics are for AFL regular season and finals series matches only and are correct to the end of the 2024 season. Games played for either of the two clubs that merged in 1996 to form the Brisbane Lions, the Brisbane Bears and the Fitzroy Football Club are not included in this list. However, Brisbane Bears players who played for the Brisbane ...