ABC Radio 3GI in Gippsland is celebrating its 70th anniversary. One of the staff there found my Fitzroy memories in a Google search, in which I referred to the station, and asked me for more information. Here it is … I was born in 1967. My childhood and youth recollections of radio are pretty limited. [...]
Fitzroy in 1991
The only year I lived in Melbourne and got to see football whenever I pleased was 1991. Fitzroy had a very good team, but failed to put it all together on most occasions and finished second bottom. It was the year after we lost Gary Pert to Collingwood in a bitter pay dispute, and with [...]
VFL and AFL statistics
Writing my Fitzroy memories has shown me how faulty the old memory can be. Fortunately the web has come to my aid through the discovery of a wonderful site called All the Stats. It records the scores for every VFL/AFL game since 1897! Tweet Pin It
Fitzroy shines in the fog
I was born in 1967 and grew up in the 1970s before and after color television became established in Australia. I can remember watching Collingwood play North Melbourne in black and white, and not having a clue which team was which. Most of my early football memories come from the radio. At Traralgon, where I [...]
Fitzroy night premiership and other memories
These memories are in no particular order. An obvious highlight of my time following Fitzroy was their last senior premiership, a night flag in 1978. The picture above comes from Full Points Footy. It shows skipper Ron Alexander, coach Graham Campbell and one of my favorite all-time Lions Garry Wilson. I wanted to introduce Graham [...]
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