Despite being rooted to the bottom of the table in recent AFL seasons, the Carlton Blues remain the most successful club in VFL/AFL history along with rivals Essendon. Since their inception in 1864, the Blues have won 16 AFL Premierships, including the first ever back in 1877. Carlton’s last flag was back in 1995.
See the 2010 Carlton Blues fixtures.
For Carlton fans, there is a second disturbing picture Brendan Fevola creates for them in 2010. It’s the vacant goalsquare laid bare after his 11 years spearheading the AFL club’s attack.
How the Blues fill it, and the 100-goals-a-season hole Fevola leaves behind, will determine their season.
Already Carlton coach Brett Ratten has rolled out the possible [...] Read article
As we draw closer to kick-off in season 2010, anticipation is, naturally, high for the upcoming season. At this time of the year, there are more questions than answers.
These include:
Can Hawthorn re-discover the form that won it the 2008 premiership?
We all know the Hawks had a wretched run with injuries last season, but it goes [...] Read article
Carlton stars Jarrad Waite and Marc Murphy made successful returns from injury but they couldn’t stop West Coast powering to a 39-point AFL win at Leederville Oval in Perth on Saturday.
The Eagles, minus the likes of Daniel Kerr, Matt Priddis, Mark LeCras, Dean Cox and Josh Kennedy, set up the 16.9 (105) to 9.12 (66) [...] Read article
There is a reason why the football world, leaving aside the players and their agents, are up in arms about the issue of third-party payments. It’s because this issue isn’t going to stop at just Chris Judd and Gary Ablett.
Two weeks ago, all anyone knew about outside deals was Judd’s partnership with Visy. Heck, I [...] Read article
Two goals, little impact, but a whole lot of relief. That was the sum total of Brendan Fevola’s return to Carlton with new AFL club Brisbane – the Blues coming up trumps over the star player they traded with a 13-point win in their practice match at Princes Park on Friday.
Fevola, shipped out of Carlton [...] Read article
The sight of Clint Bolton in a Melbourne Heart polo shirt in the week he wore the gloves for Sydney FC as they began their finals campaign didn’t go down too well with Sydney fans and football purists. But it will go down as a significant moment for Melbourne’s second franchise.
It was the moment they [...] Read article
Sydney superstar Adam Goodes is confident he can cause some matchup problems for opposing defenders as he starts his career as a fulltime forward in the Swans first round NAB Cup match against Carlton at Blacktown Olympic Park on Saturday.
The versatile 30-year-old utility, who has won Brownlow Medals as both a ruckman and midfielder will [...] Read article
When Sydney and Carlton meet in Saturday’s NAB Cup match the AFL will take a significant stride in it’s push into west Sydney with the first ever elite-level match at the GWS headquarters in Blacktown. And with the match already sold out, it could be quite the debut.
On the official Team GWS website yesterday it [...] Read article
Gary Ablett’s contract is threatening to completely derail Geelong’s premiership defence. Make no mistake, this story will dominate the headlines every week until a decision is made: will he stay or will he go?
The rumour mills will be in overdrive as every media outlet endeavours to break the story before Ablett breaks his silence. [...]
Finally, the real stuff is next up. The NAB Cup undoubtedly provides important preparation for AFL teams and allows the chance for the game to reach community centres, but it deprives us of a better and fairer season.
Without a NAB Cup, and with the expansion of the season on the horizon as the [...]
Keep up the constant niggle and see what happens. That’s the considered opinion of Wayne Carey for those defenders who may have been disheartened by Barry Hall’s remarkably serene displays with the Western Bulldogs in the AFL NAB Cup.
Hall was noteworthy for both his goals and his attitude throughout as the Bulldogs won their first [...]
According to an article on the NT News website, the AFL is set to create a second tier league comprising teams from NSW, ACT, QLD and NT from 2012. This eastern seaboard league would be on the equivalent level of the VFL, SANFL and WAFL.
According to this article, the teams would include the reserve [...]
What a long summer it has been without footy. It seems an eternity since the gladiators of Sleepy Hollow and Moorabbin gave us that unforgettable arm wrestle last September.
The non-stop drenching of cricket, and the circus that accompanies it, has worn thin. A large portion of the country is breathing a massive sigh, indicating that [...]
Less can often mean more but, in the case of the AFL, more is always best if it boosts the bottom line. As reported on The Roar on Saturday, the league is likely to move to a nine or 10-team finals series once the new clubs, Gold Coast (2011) and Greater Western Sydney (2012), enter [...]
AFL boss Andrew Demetriou last week floated the possibility of a 24-round season, an expanded finals series and the continuation of the NAB Cup once Gold Coast and Greater Western Sydney enter the league.
Whilst the notion of the home and away season expanding to 24 rounds is nothing new, and seems fair enough considering the [...]
Collingwood are cautiously confident as they move into the second year of their self-proclaimed AFL premiership window. Off the field, the Magpies have reaffirmed their status as one of the league’s top clubs with a five-year, multi-million dollar sponsorship renewal.
On-field, they are desperate to break a 20-year premiership drought and will be one of the [...]
Less than two years after Collingwood suspended Heath Shaw for the AFL finals, he is being hailed as their potential captain.
The Magpies have added the 24-year-old defender to their leadership group, with the August, 2008 off-field disaster now just a bad memory.
Then, Collingwood suspended Shaw and Alan Didak for the rest of the season because [...]
Melbourne have described the AFL match review panel’s controversial decision not to charge Josh Kennedy as a precedent for the coming season.
Demons football manager Chris Connolly said the club would accept the panel’s decision on the incident that left their midfielder Colin Sylvia with a broken jaw.
Sylvia was chasing Chris Masten in Saturday’s practice match [...]
