Carlton how many premierships

Also, find out about Membership information and feel free to Contact us with any enquiries. By Tony De Bolfo, Sir James Gobbo, the former Supreme Court judge and later Governor of Victoria, was a staunch follower of the Carlton Football Club prior to and beyond his public life — perhaps a throwback to a time when the game was territorial and the club and its vibrant Italian community were inextricably linked.

With the Club entering into a new and youthful era, it was felt that it was a great time for past and present players, officials to get together and make every effort to renew or rekindle the Carlton Spirit, which was lying very dormant at the time. There was a strong feeling amongst the group that this initiative should certainly not be about living in the past, but about the future of Carlton and its forthcoming successes on and off the field.

As a result this Spirit of Carlton group organised and ran two very successful functions in The special golf day and dinner in early enabled an intimate group of current players, past players and passionate supporters to get together on the day.

Both were brilliant. The theme lunch event run in August was attended by of the Carlton family including past players, current players, passionate supporters and sponsors. It was a highly successful event attended by many of the past greats of Carlton, current players and five surviving members of the team, including captain, Ken Hands. Eighteen of the premiership players were in attendance and Jim Buckley, a great former premiership player and the lovable larrikin of Carlton spoke with real passion on the day.

In March at the Past Players Association AGM, there was an official amalgamation of the Spirit of Carlton group with the traditional past players association culminating in our new name. The outgoing president, Dennis Munari and former past players president Chris Pavlou who both had worked tirelessly in keeping the traditional past players association up and running, were there to see the hand over to a new era and exciting future for all current and past players, officials and passionate Blues supporters.

Princes Park in Melbourne had 63, spectators screaming for blood. At half-time, the Blues were 44 points behind nearly 8 goals and the game seemed all but over, with a victory seeming a certainty for mighty Collingwood. At the half-time break, legendary Carlton coach Ron Barassi blasted his players with a frightening tirade of verbal abuse, pushing and motivating his team to concentrate on handpassing and short kicks - a strategy that worked wonders.

In the second half of the game At the time-on stage in the last quarter with the final siren about to go off at any second, the Blues were still two points behind, then suddenly two quick goals - one from Crosswell and another from Alex Jesaulenko - saw Carlton in front by ten points.

The clock was ticking There was nothing Currently the top eight teams in the AFL competition play off in the finals, eventually with a grand final match usually played in the last week of September. Read about the AFL finals system. Below are the winners of the Grand Final since the first one in , over years ago.

There have been three drawn grand finals , and , which required a replay match the following week. Collingwood have played in the most Grand Finals. Essendon and Carlton have been premiers 16 times, Collingwood Only one team have won four consecutive grand finals, Collingwood in , , and