Fitzroy's last finals win | Lions v Swans, 1986 SF | AAMI Classic Last Two Mins | AFL

A semi-final to savour for Fitzroy, as Mick Conlan kicks four goals in a nerve-racking match against Sydney at a muddy MCG.
The preliminary final the following week ended their run and was the last time the club featured in September, despite not merging with Brisbane for another 10 seasons.
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[@OfficialAshArcher]

Fitzroy should never have been allowed to die.

[@sayerma]

My dad still talks about this game, and of course the previous game against Essendon at Waverley. I was only 2 at the time, but for the Roys to get this result on that day was just unbelievable. Most players were on one leg by that time of the season and a massive crowd at the G....most Roys players had never played in front of crowds like that every before, not even close. Reading the various books and articles on 86, the Roys players were pooped by this point and got done by Hawthorn comprehensively the following week. What a team though: ROOS, WILSON, OSBORNE, QUINLAN, CONLON, PERT, RENDELL, BARWICK, HARRIS. Great memories of them all.

[@InnocentAbyssinianCat-eb7ge]

I was at this game Fitzroy were like my second team

[@michaelbradley3393]

If Maguire gets his way North Melbourne will be the next team exterminated! He's forgotten that Collingwood were in a similar position recently, but hey, can't let the 'woods die! Teams like Nth Melbourne, (my team), Footscray, perhaps even StKilda and Hawthorn would be on the target list so they can thin the Vic based clubs out. Ironically, it was the VFL that all the top players wanted to play in yet all the tradition and fan loyalty counts for nothing with the corporates. BTW Fitzroy were also my second team at school. My best friend was Fitzroy mad and our school footy jumper was the Fitzroy maroon and blue but without the emblem. My friend managed to scrounge the number 13 for his team jumper, his favourite player Alex Ruscuklic. I wanted number 4 (Sam Kekovich) but missed out.

[@patricksobb5762]

1:15, today that would have to be either holding the ball or holding the man lol

[@Pineapple123Gaming]

back when the umpires knew how to bounce the ball

[@BasedMothman]

I’d prefer an ump who can make correct decisions than an ump who can bounce it well

[@imbored7676]

The refs now suck at decisions

[@ajmullaaaaaaa]

@@BasedMothmani think they rather do neither nowadays

[@kochstevens3210]

so many other clubs were virtually broke.. Hawthorn, Melbourne, Footscray, & Richmond.. but they were given a helping hand.. & all went on to b power houses & win premierships after 2000.. why does the AFL pump money into them & dead beats like Gold coast? but abandoned won of the traditional great clubs?

[@Podgorski37]

Because Fitzroy were actually broke

[@kochstevens3210]

@@Podgorski37 broke? but many clubs were too. "but they all got a "hand out" to keep em going. look at North Melbourne now? r they rolling in cash? point is the AFL run a socialist system(drain the clubs that pull 80,000 a match(Carlton v Collingwood last weekend)to keep the lesser clubs a float. they paid several Melbourne clubs.. don't c why they couldn't have done it for the Roy boys..

[@victoryfollower4078]

Unfortunately yes, they nearly collapsed completely mid season, and the afl had to fund them till the end of the season.

[@kotchstevens2321]

@@victoryfollower4078 AFL pic & choose their favorites.. still pumping millions into the Kangaroos/Goal Coast/Giants & now Tasmania.. so they could have kept Fitzroy going as well.

[@TheAlmightyClipse]

In a way Fitzroy technically should have been folded in 1986. They were lucky to last another 10 years. The AFL Centenary season in 1996. Kind of fitting in some weird way.

[@stewie40]

some absolute GUNS out there this day!! 😲 hmm, yes... a real who's who of vfl SUPERSTARS of 80s australian rules football!! 🏉🌟😉👍

[@zedemonrko]

WE ARE THE BOYS FROM OLD FITZROY! (Only like the theme, not from Fitzroy or born when Fitzroy was in the AFL)

[@rhys5510]

Close game

[@stewie40]

the LACE-UP!! 😁

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

I agree loved Fitzroy the afl destroyed them.with .no mercy

[@victoryfollower4078]

Imagine if Quinlan scored 3:45

[@darrenlock9530]

Quote me if I'm wrong didn't Sydney finish 2nd that year gone out in straight sets. The 2 games they played in should have been at SCG?

[@mannfamily3143]

Laugh at so many players wearing the lace up jumpers, banned later due to finger breaks.

[@sliat1981]

Last finals series

[@footynerd358]

you know fitzroy could of had the longest drought if they didnt merge it would of been 76 years in 2020

[@Flamingbro69]

Not exactly, the Brisbane Lions would’ve never existed, which means that either Fitzroy and/or the Bears could’ve had premiership success between 2001-2003

[@sliat1981]

@@Flamingbro69 bears maybe but Fitzroy not a chance

[@jesseworkman4059]

If you think they merged than you are stupid Brisbane took 6 players the rest were left for dead lmfao

[@TotalDramaOwenandNoah]

​@@Flamingbro69Brisbane bears probably would have

[@gggumball]

@@Flamingbro69 or neither

[@joshglancy5562]

Unpopular opinion: modern day football is 100x better

[@goxaviergo11]

Josh Glancy I absolutely agree.

[@michaelmarshall1713]

NO not really the deliberate rule and holding the ball rule has ruined it . And AFLW ???? The gimmick of all gimmicks.

[@Igloo3471]

Skills wise? Yes. Entertaining? Not so exciting. Very predictable. But I will say there has been some great modern games of footy most definitely.

[@cancarn1540]

DontCareBear45 could not agree more

[@mabiorcholappreciationpage]

2020 has proven just how bad modern day football really is. Footy was at its peak between 1995 - 2004 and then fell off a cliff due to flooding and congestion

[@jesseworkman4059]

Fitzroy what a joke 9 years later became extinct and I smiled

[@voss842]

🤡

[@TotalDramaOwenandNoah]

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