ROYS MAKE IT 9 OUT OF 10 AT THE WIND FARM By Garry Gorilla Driving into Monash University, a line from the English humorist Douglas Adams came to mind: “It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression ‘as ...
DO WHAT YOU GOTTA DO A turbulent cross breeze confronted players, coaches and supporters alike for the Brunswick Street Oval clash between Fitzroy Men and St Bede’s Mentone. The breeze blew from behind the grandstand to the city side; the skies we...
WINDY AWAY It’s always with a sinking feeling that this Gorilla wakes up on a footy morning to hear the wind rattling the rafters and shaking the tree tops. It’s bad enough when we’re playing at home surrounded by friends and supporters and unde...
REALITY BITES A double top-of-the-table clash confronted Fitzroy Men Senior and Reserves sides against St Bernards. With all four sides undefeated for the season, the car wound its way to the bottom of the Snake Pit. Perfect ground conditions and ...
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...
