Carlton Blues
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.
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
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
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
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
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
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
Friday, March 5th, 2010
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
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
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
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
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
Friday, February 19th, 2010
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