{"id":457477,"date":"2026-02-04T08:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457477\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T08:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T08:46:11","slug":"vale-greg-lourey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/457477\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale Greg Lourey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__summary\">\n                The Brisbane Lions are mourning the loss of former Fitzroy player, Greg Lourey, who passed away in November, aged 98.\n            <\/p>\n<p>The Brisbane Lions are mourning the loss of former Fitzroy player, Greg Lourey, who passed away in November, aged 98.<\/p>\n<p>He was believed to be the Club\u2019s oldest living player before his sad passing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recruited from South Yarra, Lourey played 10 senior VFL matches and kicked one goal with Fitzroy between 1951-52. \u00a0He was the 668th player to represent the Club in a senior VFL\/AFL match and wore the #14 guernsey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He also represented the Melbourne Football Club in seven matches from 1948-50.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vale Greg Lourey<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fitzroy Football Club<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Years: 1951-52<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Debut Number: 668<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Debut Game: Round 6, 1951 vs Essendon @ Brunswick St Oval<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Games: 10<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goals: 1<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Club extends its deepest condolences to Greg\u2019s family and friends at this difficult time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brisbane Lions are mourning the loss of former Fitzroy player, Greg Lourey, who passed away in November,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":457478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-457477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}