1975 VFL Season: Fitzroy

Season Team Details

Season: 1975 VFL Season
Team: Fitzroy
Home Ground: Junction Oval

Team Results

Ladder Position: 9th (W-D-L: 9-0-13, P%: 97.1%)
Finals Performance: Did not qualify for finals
Players: 39
Brownlow Leader(s): Warwick Irwin (10)
Goalkicking Leader(s) (Home-and-Away): Renato Serafini (34)
Mitchell Medal Recipient(s): Warwick Irwin

Team Leaders

Captain(s): John Murphy

Player Results

Player Guernsey(s) Match(es) Round(s) Goal(s) Brownlow
Allan, Graeme #27 15 R06-R11, R13-R15, R17-R22 17
Appleton, Rod #2 5 R01-R04, R07 2
Austen, Geoff #25 7 R01-R06, R10 0
Carter, Rod #40 18 R01-R15, R18-R20 0
Christou, Jim #20 9 R03-R06, R08-R09, R11-R13 7
Christou, John #41 1 R14 0
Clifton, Jeff #18 8 R09-R11, R13-R14, R16, R21-R22 0
Duckworth, John #17 18 R03-R05, R08-R22 14
Dwyer, Lex #42 4 R12-R14, R16 2
Farnham, Dean #32 2 R01, R07 0
Formosa, John #16 3 R06-R07, R12 0
Irwin, Warwick #7 21 R01-R13, R15-R22 26
Lewis, John #43 10 R11, R14-R22 5
Linton, Wayne #30 20 R01-R05, R08-R22 4
Lloyd, Trevor #28 2 R01-R02 0
Lorenzini, John #44 1 R08 0
Lukas, Andrew #34 7 R01, R06-R09, R16, R22 1
McCulloch, Ian #6 14 R02-R03, R08-R09, R11-R17, R19-R21 2
McGuinness, Ian #48 1 R07 0
McMahon, David #19 20 R01-R03, R06-R22 5
Merrigan, Harvey #36 16 R01-R15, R17 2
Miller, Ian #3 21 R01-R21 11
Murphy, John #5 13 R01-R05, R10, R12, R17-R22 27
O'Keeffe, Kevin #11 22 R01-R22 4
Padley, Barry #14 5 R01-R05 0
Robertson, Glenn #26 5 R01-R02, R16-R17, R21 0
Ruscuklic, Peter #13 8 R03-R09, R22 17
Sault, Ray #12 12 R10-R21 0
Searl, Doug #4 22 R01-R22 7
Serafini, Renato #10 18 R02, R04-R15, R18-R22 34
Shepherd, Bob #1 16 R04-R11, R15-R22 11
Sinclair, Allan #31 5 R12-R14, R18, R22 1
Smith, Chris #35, #8 22 R01-R22 32
Taylor, Neville #9 6 R10, R13, R15, R19-R20, R22 1
Thompson, Alan #21 22 R01-R22 9
Wall, David #33 11 R01-R09, R12, R15 16
Weatherley, Graeme #45 12 R05-R06, R10, R14-R22 14
Whitford, Don #15 8 R04-R07, R11, R16-R18 2
Wilson, Garry #29 10 R01-R03, R16-R22 22

Team Line-Up

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This is an approximation for the typical team line-up based on available position records from this season.

Coach Results

Coach Match(es) (W-D-L) Round(s)
Rose, Kevin 22 9 -0- 13 R01-R22

Match Results

Date Round Opponent H/A Result Coach Captain (Nominated)
05/04/1975 Round 1 Richmond HOME LOSS RIC by 5 Kevin Rose John Murphy
12/04/1975 Round 2 Footscray AWAY LOSS FOO by 33 Kevin Rose John Murphy
19/04/1975 Round 3 Collingwood HOME LOSS COL by 2 Kevin Rose John Murphy
26/04/1975 Round 4 North Melbourne AWAY WIN FIT by 30 Kevin Rose John Murphy
03/05/1975 Round 5 Essendon HOME WIN FIT by 18 Kevin Rose John Murphy
10/05/1975 Round 6 St Kilda HOME LOSS STK by 8 Kevin Rose unknown
17/05/1975 Round 7 Hawthorn AWAY LOSS HAW by 40 Kevin Rose unknown
24/05/1975 Round 8 South Melbourne HOME WIN FIT by 13 Kevin Rose unknown
31/05/1975 Round 9 Melbourne AWAY LOSS MEL by 11 Kevin Rose unknown
07/06/1975 Round 10 Carlton HOME LOSS CAR by 9 Kevin Rose John Murphy
16/06/1975 Round 11 Geelong AWAY LOSS GEE by 2 Kevin Rose unknown
21/06/1975 Round 12 Richmond AWAY WIN FIT by 2 Kevin Rose John Murphy
28/06/1975 Round 13 Footscray HOME LOSS FOO by 13 Kevin Rose unknown
05/07/1975 Round 14 North Melbourne HOME LOSS NOR by 9 Kevin Rose unknown
12/07/1975 Round 15 Collingwood AWAY LOSS COL by 42 Kevin Rose unknown
19/07/1975 Round 16 Essendon AWAY WIN FIT by 38 Kevin Rose unknown
26/07/1975 Round 17 St Kilda AWAY LOSS STK by 31 Kevin Rose John Murphy
02/08/1975 Round 18 Hawthorn HOME WIN FIT by 34 Kevin Rose John Murphy
09/08/1975 Round 19 South Melbourne AWAY WIN FIT by 17 Kevin Rose John Murphy
16/08/1975 Round 20 Melbourne HOME WIN FIT by 11 Kevin Rose John Murphy
23/08/1975 Round 21 Carlton AWAY WIN FIT by 5 Kevin Rose John Murphy
30/08/1975 Round 22 Geelong HOME LOSS GEE by 26 Kevin Rose John Murphy