Club/s
Fitzroy

Years
1982-92

Games
187

Goals
411

Honours/Awards
Fitzroy Captain 1991
Fitzroy leading goal-kicker 1986-89, 1992
Fitzroy Team of the Century
Lions Life Member
Victorian State Representative (8 times)

Richard Osborne is one of a handful of people who played for four different AFL clubs, but first and foremost he is a Lions man. From an 18-year-old debutant in 1982 to a now 54-year-old, he has long warmed the hearts of Lions fans.

He was an electrifying player, with blistering pace, a beautiful long kick and a strong pair of hands. And he had a certain X-Factor via which he could tear any side apart on his day. Like against Melbourne in 1989 when he kicked 11 goals, third-most in a game by a Fitzroy player behind only Bob Merrick in 1919 and Jack Moriarty in 1928.

Wearing his trademark #44 jumper, which only two players in AFL history have worn more often, he played 187 games for Fitzroy from 1982-92 and kicked 411 goals before stints with Sydney, Footscray and Collingwood took his 17-year career figures to 283 games and 574 goals.

Once an NFL triallist and famously taken from the SCG in an ambulance after a bad injury in 1993, he was originally from Bulleen-Templestowe and debuted with the Lions in the same season as Paul Roos and Gary Pert.

Fitzroy captain in 1991, runner-up best & fairest in 1984, he was five times the club’s leading goal-kicker, with more than 50 goals each time, was a six times a finals player, seven times a Victorian State representative, and despite six years in other colors he is ranked 16^th on the Fitzroy games list and 6^th on the goals list.

In 2001 he was named in the Fitzroy Team of the Century, and now, in further recognition of one of the great Lions careers, he is a member of the Brisbane Lions Hall of Fame … RICHARD OSBORNE.