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It’s funny how many merger proposals and rumors surrounded the AFL and only one merger happened. Meanwhile there initially was less talk of that in the NRL, but bam 3 of them.

No way mark. Also I was sitting near you on the train after the gws game in Sydney 😂

@@Comatosedpeanut yes I remember you

hahaha cry more

Of all teams they came up with a team based in Brisbane, boring.

Footscray supporters basically punched the commission in the face in 1989 with their campaign to save their club. They didn't want that to happen again.

The Footscray and Fitzroy boards didn't like eachother, Fitzroy reluctantly moved their games to Western Oval in 1994 as they got more and more desperate to survive

@@Magpie_Mark92they signed a 10 year contract to be co tenant. Footscray ended up playing it’s last game at the Western Oval the year later in 1997

@J G that's true. But AFL footy is much better to watch as a sport. Most soccer matches are boring

@@jackwestjr3584 Afl is dead and boring rules are horrible R.i.p 90s VFL

@JG-bw6lu jog on pedofile

​@jackwestjr3584 terrible to watch today, players can't kick past 50 metres, like watching paint dry.

haha well spotted!

Yes, my friend, this is a possibility. Such is the stuff of the history of the footy.

I’ll say a prayer for Leon every night now. Another Melbourne club would have been irreparably changed if not for him.

Nonsense, none of the other 14 clubs were having a bar of the North-Fitz concessions with North on top of the ladder and the AFL commission wanted the Brisbane deal to go ahead for strategic reasons.

I taped the segments to VHS.

There should be a tassie team or a top end team.

@@MisterPolitical1 rather than merging with the bears they should of gone to Tassie

@@Magpie_Mark92 you mean north

@@MisterPolitical1 but the North deal got rejected

@@Magpie_Mark92 but I hate north Melbourne leaving Arden st

@J G Do you have Autism?

@@Igloo3471 He just doesn't have any friends or a social life. Watching every football video and commenting the same thing. A definate virgin too.

who would want to merge with them? fitzroy were garbage for decades

Stop repeating nonsense, he did no such thing. He was the mouthpiece for all of the other clubs. What did Collingwood do to stop it happening? Nothing. They voted for it.

Hit him so hard it took a second for him to react to it.

Scott Sandars im with you there

It's only because North were the best team in the comp already. North didn't need Fitzroy's players, they won the flag that year for a reason.

senzu_bean north needed money in the merger because they were also financially struggling at the time and wanted more membership aswell

I know. North still need financial support *now*. The AFL has tried very hard to get rid of North for awhile.

senzu_bean they should be moved to hobart

they actually stopped playing at the Whitten Oval at the end of 96, although they played a one off farewell game there in 97

3 years but year.. Footscray Lions kinda had a nice ring to it as well

Scott Sandars no, they played their last game there in 1997. They certainly weren’t there in 1999

I always wonder what Irene Chatfield & Peter Gordon would have felt at the time. They fought to keep Footscray afloat in 1989 almost to merge again with Fitzroy because Ross Oakley wanted to get port Adelaide into the competition he didn’t give a shit

There was a cartoon of Oakley as a Roman Emperor giving the thumbs down to a begging lion. Oakley loved it so much he had it framed in his house. Scumbag!

nope.. soccer is still centralized.. we find other teams to support.. for some, it's the Western Bulldogs, for others, the Brisbane Lions, for me.. the West Coast Eagles.

Scott Sandars yes it is why. And it’s centralised, not centralized, you’re not a yank

My understanding is a lot of them either stuck with Brisbane, went with another Melbourne-based club (many went with North) or lost interest all together. How you'd think they all went to soccer is beyond me. This happened in the 1990s.

@@senzubean31 More went to rugby league with Melbourne Storm.

@@scottsandars1727 Some went to Port Adelaide, as then the only team they'd never barracked for Fitzroy against. I know of others who dropped out of following AFL for a while, then began barracking for Gold Coast Suns when they came in.

Yeah its kind of a hipster thing around Fitzroy, which is of course ground zero for the hipster plague these days. The Fitzroy Football Club is very much alive and kicking in the VAFA and still selling merchandise as well: www.fitzroyfc.com.au/merchandise

Most of the products in Rebel sport are crappie polyester, not fit for a rag and sold at ridiculous prices, garbage.

What drugs were the AFL administrators on to think NRL fans would suddenly follow AFL. I was a Fitzroy fan up until 1996 but a merge/takeover from a QLD club ended my support.I would've still supported Fitzroy had they merged with Nth Melb.

Good enough to win flags in any era. Great team lead by the GOAT

@@glennarcher6 team of stars

Today's teams up against Carey, Archer, Martyn, Pickett, Pike , Laidley, Stevens ECT would sh*t themselves

M C yet you have a kangaroos logo as your avatar?

i was a Fitzroy supporter till I was 18. North Melbourne were going to merge with Fitzroy. But continued on their own. So i followed the Kangaroos

M C Why didn't you support Brisbane Lions? They still wear Fitzroy colors and actually merged with them. I understand it doesn't represent Fitzroy suburb anymore, but south Melbourne relocated to Sydney aswell. Both Sydney and Brisbane are the spiritual successors to South Melb and Fitzroy respectively.

Igor Ivanov. It was a takeover not a merger. Not really the Fitzroy colours. Putting a Lion on the jumper doesn't make it Fitzroy. They are slowly losing their Fitzroy identity. The difference with South Melbourne was that it was the whole club that relocated to Sydney no mergers. And they still had the same colors.

M C​​​ Brisbane has Fitzroy colors. When they play in Victoria they wear exactly the same, just no FFC monogram but instead the same Fitzroy lion logo. And when they play at home they wear maroon, that's Fitzroy's traditional color anyway. The FFC monogram was white instead of the gold they have now. "We are the boys from old Fitzroy, we wear the colors *maroon* and blue". That's the best you could hope for in a merger up north, it was basically a relocation.