The stoush between the Brisbane Lions and Fitzroy Football Club over the AFL club's revamped logo is headed for the Victorian Supreme Court.

Fitzroy has accused Brisbane of reneging on its 1996 merger agreement to keep the old lion as its mascot when it introduced a new-look beast to its AFL logo this season.

The old and the new ... Fitzroy fans are battling the Brisbane club over the Lions logo.

Brisbane had sought to establish that Fitzroy couldn't afford to proceed in the matter, but Supreme Court Associate Justice Neemar Mukhtar today refused the application.

Fitzroy's case was "genuine and respectable" and the club had a "triable" case, Associate Justice Mukhtar said.