RedRoy Mail - 15 July 2022

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We're back!

All our Fitzroy sides are back on the park this week after another bye weekend –and we're so happy to have footy back with our Roys taking to the field this week with some exciting matches across Saturday.

So no more byes now! (Well, just one more, we tell a lie, in Round 14 our Div 1 Thirds have one more before finals!).

This Saturday our Senior and Reserves Men take on Ajax at home at Brunswick Street Oval where we're also hosting the Reds Foundation luncheon with special guest, lawyer, broadcaster, writer, and North Fitzroy local Jon Faine. The lunch sold out in record time and it's going to be at great day at BSO!

Our Senior Women are currently top of the Prem B ladder! This side has been so impressive this season under Michael Harper, Nathan Jumeau and Mel Story's leadership. There are only two rounds left in the women's season so be sure to show your support as our Seniors and Reserves take on Monash Blues and Yarra old Grammarians in the coming weeks!

Our Thirds and Gold Thirds have three rounds remaining before finals footy. We wish Trent Coleman and Silvano Inserra all the best over the coming weeks against some top sides.

It's all happening Roys family! See you back at the footy Saturday!

New VAFA Women's podcast episode

Check out the latest VAFA Women's footy podcast 'Inside the Boundary' with our very own media star, Senior Women's player Eliza Wright who spoke to Fitzroy-ACU Senior Women's coach Michael Harper as we set our sights on finals footy.

Great stuff Eliza, we love your media work!

Listen to the latest episode here.

Upcoming events: 2022 Pride Game – Women’s Round 14

Join us for a special day at Brunswick Street Oval when we celebrate the LGBTQIA+ community in our club, in football, and beyond. The Pride rainbow will be all over Brunswick Street Oval, including on our players' Fitzroy jumpers, and we encourage all supporters to wear their Fitzroy and Pride colours.

Fitzroy Football Club is committed to making our club a safe and welcoming place for LGBTQIA+ players, members, supporters, and volunteers.

Fitzroy’s 2022 Pride Game follows our participation in last year’s Pride in Women’s Footy Game at Melbourne University.

Date: Saturday 23 July
Time: Senior Women start at 2.00pm – Fitzroy-ACU v Yarra Old Grammarians
Venue: Brunswick Street Oval
Post-match: Join us to continue the celebrations in the Community Room from 4.30pm

All welcome — please join us at Brunswick Street Oval after the day's games to celebrate our LGBTQIA+ community and the contribution LGBTQIA+ people have made to our great game.

Round 14 lunch with Robert Shaw and William
Westerman

Fitzroy AFL coach Robert Shaw and author William Westerman will be our special guests on Saturday 30 July, when we turn our attention to Fitzroy in the 1990s. Robert Shaw was Fitzroy’s Senior Coach between 1991 and 1994, and assistant coach between 1989 and 1990, where he coached Fitzroy to the 1989 VFL Reserves Premiership.

Robert played for Essendon between 1974 and 1981, and was Adelaide’s senior coach between 1995 and 1996.

William Westerman is an historian and author of 2021 book Merger: The Fitzroy Lions and the Tragedy of 1996. He is a third-generation Fitzroy supporter and his two sons are, like their father, members of the Fitzroy Football Club.

This lunch will take place before our Senior Men play St Bedes/Mentone Tigers in a must-win game.

Please join us on Saturday, 30 July for our Round 14 lunch.

Date: Saturday 30 July
Time: 11:45 for 12:00pm start
Cost: $45 for lunch (roast meats or vegetarian option, vegetables and salads, and cheese platter) with drinks at bar prices
Where: Community Room, Brunswick Street Oval

Bookings close at 9am on Thursday 28 July. Secure your ticket now.

Some Roys content to keep you entertained after the bye!

The wonderful Jonathan Pilbrow has rounded up another bunch of interviews and Roys stories from the last few years to keep us going after the bye! Thanks for gathering all these for us Jonathan! And be sure to read this piece by Jonathan himself!

You can take Fitzroy out of the AFL, but you can’t take it out of the people
By Jonathan Pilbrow
The Roar
Read here

4/7/21 Coodabeens interview with Peter Francis
https://www.abc.net.au/melbourne/programs/coodabeensfootyshow/coodabeen-champions/13307332
Starts 1 hour 03:20 goes to 1 hour 16:05
In 1979, Peter Francis played in a premiership for Carlton in what was his first season in the big league. Fast forward just 18 months down the track and Peter had played the first 11 games in what would become another premiership winning season for the Blues. But Peter would find himself finishing the season in a different jumper, having been traded to Fitzroy mid-season.

Mid 2000’s interview with Warwick Irwin on Grumpy Old Men
Watch here

1983 World of Sport interview with Coach Robert Walls and Ruckman Matt Rendell (8 goals) after Fitzroy defeated top of the ladder North Melbourne by 150 points
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_7cZWUUgUw

Fitzroy Lions: 100 Years of Action Series:

Part 1 - Season 1983
Part 2 - Foundation
Part 3 - The War Years
Part 4 - The Coaches
Part 5 - Kevin Murray
Part 6 - Into the 80's

The Toyota Good For Footy Raffle is on! Buy your tickets now!

It's back! Your chance to win some great prizes and support the mighty Roys!

In 2021, we raised a total of $6710 which went directly to supporting our Club. Thank you to everyone who purchased a ticket!

We've now got the 2022 raffle up and running and we'd love to see Fitzroy on the leader board and smash last year's sales to keep our club strong.

All you have to do is jump online and buy your tickets to be in the running to win one of 10 amazing prizes, including a brand new Toyota!

100 per cent of the proceeds go to supporting the Fitzroy Football Club. The raffle will be drawn at 12pm on Monday 5 September, 2022 with winners announced on Wednesday 14 September.

Let's get on that leader board—buy your tickets today!

Go Roys!