For an instant at the Royal Derby Hotel in Fitzroy on Thursday night, one might have been forgiven for thinking Lions star Charlie Cameron had just kicked a goal to secure the AFL grand final. A choir ...

A French traveller was surprised to hear the Brisbane Lions' theme song, recognizing it as the French national anthem, La Marseillaise. The song's origin dates back to 1952 when Fitzroy player Bill ...

A century of seasons in the VFL/AFL has thrown up many significant moments for the club that joined as Footscray in 1925 and now proudly plays as the Western Bulldogs. Many of those moments have been ...

The 2024 AFL Grand Final is undoubtedly a massive one; bringing the large but more casual TV audiences of Brisbane and Sydney along for the ride could make it the most-watched flag decider in footy ...

It will be an historical Grand Final with Sydney and Brisbane involved, but the paths previous iterations of the club took could have seen the ‘Sydney Lions’ or the ‘East Coast Bears’ playing in their ...

LAST Monday marked 25 years since the merger between Fitzroy and the Brisbane Bears was announced. A quarter of a century on, the Brisbane Lions have worn the maroon, blue and gold of Fitzroy, with ...

Fitzroy Doncaster’s Premier Cricket season looked just about shot at 0-5 – but a standout showing on Saturday coupled with ...

It’s been over a decade since the AFL featured a dedicated Heritage Round, and it’s time the popular fixtures are brought back, writes Jack Hudson. It was introduced in the mid-noughties and has ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the countdown to today’s AFL grand final, catch up on the best of our footy coverage.See all 9 stories. Jason Kimberley ran onto the ...

Iterations of the two clubs passed through many sliding doors together from the late 1970s to the early 1990s and if things had been different we could have been watching the ‘Sydney Lions’ or even ...