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His own son apparently had an "Up Yours Oakley" bumper sticker on his car for a number of years :')
I find the whole "the AFL didn't have much to do with the demise of Fitzroy" very odd and essentially just a blatant lie. Fitzroy went through a number of options (ie "partial relocations" - moving 7 home games to Canberra, Tasmania etc) but were denied by the AFL. They simply wanted 1 less Victorian team and the other team beyond the Barassi line to have a supporter base in Melbourne like the Swans had. Why lie about it?
Simply cannot understand Oakley arguing the way he did. He should be honest and say the afl could have saved fitzroy but chose not to. It was a choice and they chose to use the demise of fitzroy to expand the competition nationally. He is entitled to say now we made the right decision and we have regrets, or we made the wrong decision but it was finely balanced. The actual answer was gutless and wrong. Own your decision.
Despite being a diehard Fitzroy and (now) Brisbane Lions fan, I think the AFL could make the case that Fitzroy just wasn't viable in the long term financially in a national competition, and for the good of the game as a whole we were sacrificed.
Greg Swann seems to think that Fitzroy could have easily been retained in the AFL competition, had there been the will by the AFL to do so.
http://www.sen.com.au/display-article-2013/Fitzroy-could-easily-have-been-saved-Swann/65061
Did anyone hear him on the 360? He was asked if he did everything to save the club, and said something along the lines of "Well we gave them office space in VFL house"
As someone who supports Fitzroy in the VAFA and Geelong in the AFL, lol at all the posters bashing the Cats as a club because of one idiot.
Did anyone hear him on the 360? He was asked if he did everything to save the club, and said something along the lines of "Well we gave them office space in VFL house"
What's the end goal mate? Is it a VFL team?The real phoenix is located down at the Brunswick Street Oval as the almost dead Fitzroy Football Club continues its rebuild and revival.
Errr.. You do realise those Geelong comments were from ten years ago. Like 2004.
What's the end goal mate? Is it a VFL team?
Looks like we might have to have "an event!"They better bury him in a bloody good raincoat, because he's going to be getting some regular visitors.