In a club as old and distinguished as the Fitzroy Football Club we value our history and revere our trailblazers: the likes of Aussie Rules’ first Indigenous footballer Joe Johnson, the famous Haydn Bunton who at 20 became the club’s youngest capt...
ROYS ROLL ON, NOT WITHOUT A FIGHT I was inside the glass, having a spot of lunch, for the majority of the Fitzroy Reserves game against Beaumaris. For the first time this season, the Twos were challenged early, and were trailing at quarter time. N...
A ROYS WIN, AND TWO BITES SHORT OF A SUBWAY This week involved an even longer drive across suburbs where I know no one: to Princes Park in Caulfield, former home of the ‘Bear Cave’, and a temporary respite for Ajax while their Albert Park digs rec...
PROUD TO BE BACK AT BSO The Roy Girls returned to Brunswick Street Oval for the second week in a row and the footy gods smiled in approval. Against predictions, the skies spat down only a few annoying drops while the Comrade set up stall, causing ...
To all members of our Fitzroy community,As you know, later this year the Australian people will vote in a yes/no referendum on enshrining in the Constitution of Australia an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament and Government....
Strangely, I find setting a course for Malvern from Fairfield awkward. It takes longer than it should, it crosses suburbs where I know no one, and this was a foggy Saturday morn. The sun broke through as we parked behind De La Salle’s club rooms i...
Having set up his customarily irresistible merch offerings in front of the Kevin Murray grandstand at the Brunswick Street Oval, business was brisk for the Comrade President as the Twos arrived, calm and casual, for their outing against the Melbou...
We knew it was coming. But to be perfectly honest, none of us really thought it’d happen under threatening grey skies, in driving rain, against giant bodies, in the unseemly face of big voices, and on a giant away ground. To make matters worse, ...
The Fitzroy Reserves ‘fiddled and farted’ (as my Nan would have put it) for three quarters in their game against Old Trinity. As Pop would have put it, they then got ‘fair dinkum’ in the last, and won 116–33. I liked the games of Pyers and Staples...
With duties taking JG Gorilla away from her home ground to rub shoulders in a weirdly 1950’s old school vibe at the Old Geelong pre-match lunch at Como Park (accompanied by stalwart Roys treasurer and mother of the two Clayton stars), JGG has agai...
