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In their 6th back-to-back AFL finals appearance, it seems that Brisbane City is once again a roaring Aussie Rules HEARTLAND.
Pubs, clubs and schools right across the state are starting to decorate themselves with the similar but slightly different colours that differentiates Queensland AFL from the other footballs.
It’s obviously maroon. Just with a bit of yellow and navy blue thrown in. Those colours can be seen everywhere across this great state, becaause Queensland is well and truly back on that early-2000s shit.
20 years since they snatched a Premiership three-peat, and four grand final appearances, it seems that the sleeping Lion that lay underneath the Brown Snake since 2004 has today punctured the riverbed with a clenched and muddy paw.
This Queensland Aussie Rules renaissance was visible last year as well, with just as much Brisbane Lions merchandise on display in the city as Brisbane Broncos – as both teams made a glorious finals tilt in both their respective codes.
But the momentum has now grown to the point where even the AFL atheists cannot help but find out what channel this weekend’s match will be broadcast on.
The Brisbane Lions join a cast of other equally hated non-Melbourne AFL teams in defining what this game looks like in 2024 – with the Geelong Cats now the last remaining Victorian side to make the final 4.
As the Melbourne and Western Australian fans screech that this glorious month in the AFL season is being wasted on out-of-towners, The Betoota Advocate joins the good people of South Australia, Geelong, Sydney and QUEENSLAND in proudly declaring that it is only WE who GET Aussie Rules.
This newspaper also wants to reiterate that our entire organisation is made up of AVID Aussie Rules fans, and always has been. It’s a level of fandom than can only be truly appreciated by those Australians who live outside of Melbourne – a backwater city of underperformers that simply has no idea about AFL.
All together now!
“We are the pride of Brisbane town
We wear maroon, blue and gold
We will always fight for victory
Like Fitzroy and Bears of old
All for one, and one for all
We will answer to the call
Go Lions, Brisbane Lions
We’ll kick the winning score
You’ll hear our mighty roar“
