WATCH: The baffling beginnings of footy’s toughest build

“Some of the things that happened there you certainly wouldn’t want to know about.”

STAFF WRITERS | July 10, 2024 - 8:00am

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It was late 1986 when the VFL decided to launch a privately-owned expansion club in Queensland - things surely would have been easier if they tried to set up a club on Mars instead.

In the second episode of AFL Team Builders, inaugural coach Peter Knights, General Manager of Footy Shane O'Sullivan, board member Peter Williams and player Bernie Harris take you inside the ups and downs of the creation of the first V/AFL team in Queensland.