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The victorious Brisbane Lions have greeted fans in Melbourne after the AFL grand final yesterday. The Lions came from behind to claim a Premiership three-peat, robbing a hopeful Fremantle Dockers of their first-ever flag. At the Lions’ spiritual home of Fitzroy, fans camped out to meet their heroes.

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00:02Well, as you can see, fans have gathered in their thousands here this morning at Brunswick
00:07Street Oval, the home of the original Fitzroy Lions, who went on to become the Brisbane Lions
00:1230 years ago.
00:14Now, it's an incredible atmosphere this morning.
00:16As you heard before, there's been cheers, there's been tears, there's been roars.
00:19As the players arrived on a bus a short time ago, they came up on stage with their medals
00:25with the Premiership Cup.
00:27Now, some of these fans here have been camped out since five this morning, waiting to say
00:32pretty much one thing to the players.
00:35They're heroes from yesterday's grand final.
00:37They wanted to say thank you.
00:38I've been lucky enough to see them win six grand finals.
00:43So, I'm so proud of them.
00:44I love them.
00:46They're my boys.
00:47I have a mum next to me and she said, oh, I think we're gone, we're gone.
00:50I'm like, believe, we just have to believe.
00:52I was literally screaming because they were doing a big comeback because I thought Fremantle
00:58was going to win.
00:59Still in shock.
01:00Still in shock it happened.
01:01That was awesome.
01:02I was still thinking about the grand final.
01:05Now, one question on everyone's lips is the future of Premiership coach Chris Fagan.
01:10Now, he is an idol here.
01:12He's an absolute legend after leading the club to victory three times now.
01:17Now, he has remained tight-lipped as to whether he plans to retire after this season or keep
01:22it going.
01:22And some fans here today have given him their blessing.
01:25They say he has done absolutely enough for the club.
01:27And if he wants to retire, then he should.
01:30Others have led chance of one more year.
01:33Now, the overwhelming feeling here today is after three in a row, why not go for four next
01:38year?
01:41Now, I'm going to go for four next year.

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