In 1993, Fitzroy were both a club teetering on the brink of extinction and a senior side entering its prime. Off-field dramas were many, but on the field the Lions were among the most watchable sides in the AFL, driven by the likes of Paul Roos, Alastair Lynch, Paul Broderick and the inimitable Doc Whieldon. As a young coach, Robert Shaw was in the midst of the excitement of a year in which the team came close to playing finals while also wrestling with the looming spectre of the AFL's economic rationalism. He spoke to us about this, Fitzroy's part in The Greatest Season That Was.