There were some handy types in the 1974 Coorparoo under 12’s grand final side. Two-time Grogan Medallist Brendan McMullen, regular senior players David Fagg, Ross McKinnon, Mal Thompson and Warren Bobbermein, and leading Queensland umpire Martin Hopp and two others…

The AFL audience world-wide held its collective breath shortly after 5pm on Saturday 28 September 2018 as West Coast’s Dom Sheed stood 25m from goal on the boundary line at the MCG with the result of the AFL Grand Final…

A total of 197 Queenslanders have played in the AFL since Kedron’s Erwin Dornau was the first at South Melbourne in 1948 and 131 of them have done so since Mark Browning took charge of the Queensland talent pathway in…

Jo Butland loves nothing more than to hear the words ‘Thanks Jo’ from any of the countless young girls who have followed a pathway that the Cairns-based women’s football icon has blazed in Queensland. It makes it all worthwhile, she…

In ancient England the name ‘Daddow’ means ‘good fella’ in the Cornish and Celtic dialects. But if they were to invent an area-specific dialect at Noosa it would have an extended meaning ….it  would be ‘good fella and club legend’.…

Cameron Buchanan tells a story that goes right to the heart of Queensland football. When as a teenager, he started at senior level with Windsor-Zillmere in 1987, he was the only boy in a family of three children, yet 36…

They say if you can find something you love and make it your career, you’re a lucky man. So Peter Blucher is one very lucky man. A one-time journalist and all-time sports ‘nut’, he’s been involved in Australian football in…

There have been dozens of southern recruits to Queensland football who have been pivotal to the game’s growth over the past 40 years, but as important as any was a Melbourne journalist whose first love was horses and was a…

Jamie Charman spent more than 4,000 days as a Brisbane Lions player from 2001-11. He had a lot of good times in a 129-game career, but there was one day that was special – so special it made all the…

It’s a rare footballer who plays almost 500 games of senior football, but to supporters of Windsor-Zillmere and Aspley, that’s only half of the story when it comes to Terry Weller. He’s just a rare person, they say. A footballer…

As a 16-year-old, Wes Parry was invited to train at Footscray in 1963 under the legendary Ted Whitten. Already a senior player at Yarram in Gippsland for two years, it was a dream come true. He played two practice matches…

Affectionately known as ‘Mr Coorparoo’, Vic Giffin was a pivotal figure in the formation, success, and ageless legacy of the Coorparoo Football Club, and a 50-year servant of Australian football in Queensland as a player, visionary and administrator. Born in…

John Finn is in his 50th year with the West Townsville Football Club, now known as the Thuringowa Bulldogs. He played in five senior premierships over 18 years and was a premiership coach. He was a best and fairest winner,…

It was a huge moment in Queensland football when the VFL Match of the Day came to television in the early 1970s. From 2pm each Saturday, fans would tune in to Channel Seven for the only live coverage of the…

The Brisbane Lions were the undisputed kings of the AFL in 2001-02-03, going back-to-back-to back to be one of only six teams in history to win three premierships in a row. And if ‘Emperor’ is the king of kings, as…

In Round 14 1981 Fitzroy beat South Melbourne at Lake Oval by 14 points. It was Robert Walls’ 14th game as coach as the great Bernie Quinlan played his 249th game in the 250th of great mate and South champion…

It’s a great trivia question. In the Brisbane Lions’ golden era of 2001-02-03-04, when they won three premierships and played in a fourth grand final, who was the only player to win All-Australian selection each year? Michael Voss? Simon Black?…

Cherie Brockwell had a fair clue very early in life that she was going to live in the football world …. on her way home from Royal Brisbane Hospital, just a few days old, she stopped in at Crosby Park…

The Brisbane Lions’ AFL premiership hat-trick of 2001-02-03 was a lot of things to a lot of people, but to Shane Johnson it was like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Vindication of more than 20…

The Holman Medal is awarded each year to the best and fairest player in the Darling Downs Football League and with very good reason. Without the Holman family the competition, and particularly the Goondiwindi Hawks, wouldn’t be anything like what…

Leo Camm was of an impact man of community football in Queensland. And not in one region or two but five different regions. From Sandgate to Surfers Paradise, Mackay to the Darling Downs, and a little bit more, wherever he…

Jim Conlon was a Wilston-Grange star of the 1950s and ‘60s who had the distinction of winning the club’s first Grogan Medal – 30 years after three clubmates had won the League’s highest honour a combined five times. In one…

Marlo Brack was a six-year-old girl playing Under 7’s football with the boys at Moorooka. She played until she was 12 and was told girls could no longer play. She did some coaching and umpiring and helped run some junior…

When you think of Bill Peirce and Sherwood Football Club you think of loyalty and longevity. They define perfectly the man who was the son of the club president and played more than 600 games for the Magpies. He was…

Corey Lambert is one of the great football journeymen. He travelled far, wide and often in pursuit of the Sherrin, and all that goes with it, and left an indelible impression on the game in Queensland as a Grogan Medalist…

Warren Selvage is the Queensland football equivalent of Hawthorn’s AFL premiership record-holder Michael Tuck, plus two. He played in an extraordinary nine senior premierships with Sherwood in 1973 and from 1975-82 in a career that spanned more than 50 years.…

When Sherwood Football Club launched their Hall of Fame in July 2022 there was only one person who could be the first inductee – Maurie McNamee. After all, he founded the club with Wally Hunter and Bill Michel in 1956,…

Sherwood is a people-first club in Brisbane’s western suburbs that has played a big role in Queensland football, highlighted by a staggering eight consecutive premierships at SQAFA level from 1975-82. It earned the club that wears the black and white…

Richard Griffiths could have been excused for thinking his football world had caved in when the proposed Melbourne-Hawthorn AFL merger and the birth of the would-be ‘Melbourne Hawks’ collapsed in September 1996. He was unceremoniously sacked as Melbourne Football Manager.…

Fiona McLarty was a high-jumper of national standard and a state level basketballer. She studied exercise science in the hope of working in development with either of her sporting loves. Yet, with no connection whatsoever to Australian football at the…