The Victorian Lions Supporters Group (VLSG) has today thrown its support behind Queensland based supporter group ‘The Lion’s Roar‘ in seeking a Brisbane Lions member vote on whether to change the current Brisbane Lions jumper derisively known by many supporters as the “paddlepop lion”.
The Victorian Lions Supporter Group condemned in 2010 the decision by the Brisbane Lion board to break the merger agreement between the Fitzroy Football Club and the Brisbane Bears-Fitzroy Football Club (trading as the Brisbane Lions) in relation to the re-design of the Brisbane logo.
As such the VLSG fully supported the subsequent efforts of the board of the Fitzroy Football Club to seek a ruling on the validity of Clause 7.2 c) of the merger agreement dealing with the use of the “Fitzroy Lion” in the Victorian Supreme Court. Despite a settlement being reached on the logo, we remain appalled at the current bastardisation of the both the Lions logo and the Lions jumper which we believe contravenes both the terms and spirit of the merger agreement between Fitzroy and the Brisbane Lions. In the wake of the wearing of the three-peat commemorative jumper by the Lions against Essendon and Collingwood and the subsequent positive reaction from both Lions and opposition supporters, we firmly believe that it is time to give the Brisbane Lions members a vote on the current jumper – a vote which was denied to them in 2010.
We call on the Brisbane Lions board to conduct a member vote on the future of the current jumper by the time of the Lions Annual General Meeting scheduled for December 2013. We also call upon the Lions to offer up as one of the alternatives in that vote, the premiership jumper worn between 1997 and 2009.
Victorian Lions Supporters Group 