1883: A new club is formed By David Leydon The people of the fast-growing inner Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy had become frustrated that, by the early 1880s, they didn’t have a local Australian Rules football team representing their name. So in 1883...

A cavalcade of late model Fitzroy convertibles ventured north along Plenty or Yan Yean to take on Old Ivanhoe in our final practice games. El Suavo Sylv tells me his Third’s side is meeting all development expectations, while the Two’s under Berni...

For the final practice game of the pre season, the Two’s were first up at Seddon Park at Ivanhoe on Saturday – a cute, secret little ground nestled in a sheltered location in the centre of a leafy suburb. In fact, if it wasn’t for the city skyline...

The Roy Women’s squads were up for the first practice games at Vic Park on Sunday. On the famous old ground of many victories, honourable losses and inelegant supporters, the Roygirls’ arrival was heralded by an air balloon. Albeit one sporting th...

There were stacks of trendoids about when I arrived at Vic Park for our practice match sessions against recently promoted to A Grade Uni Blacks. Apparently it was a new festival in the city of festivals, down the Vic Park end of Johnston Street. I...

By Guy Gorilla I arrived in time for the start of the Reserves in our first serious hit out for the year against Banyule at Lines Reserve Watsonia. A howling northerly, the prospect of searing temperatures, and opposition who were premiers in Divi...

First Saturday in March and the Fitzroy coaches were off to see what lessons they could glean ahead of the new football season The Roys descended on the pristine La Trobe University football oval in Bundoora last week for their first practice mat...

By Guy Gorilla     Guy Gorilla sometimes gets out of his cage, wanders through Fitzroy, the Edinburgh Gardens, Yarra Bend. He does it more so in the off season, hoping to score some footy news. Yesterday he found himself in Brunswic...

Back in 1883 a group of 68 prominent locals held a meeting at the Brunswick Hotel in Brunswick Street Fitzroy with the express aim of putting a football team on the field and creating a club to represent the suburb of Fitzroy.This meeting was chai...

Pre season resumed post Christmas on Monday 23 January on the historic and leafy Corbin Oval for the Women’s squad, while the Men hit the track at some folk’s former centre of the universe, Victoria Park Collingwood.  There were around 120 in...