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Carlton fielded teams in the senior, reserves and under-19s grades of the 1982 VFL season, and its senior team also contested the 1982 Escort Championships. Carlton won the senior VFL premiership, defeating Richmond in the grand final. It was the club's second senior VFL premiership in a row, its third in four years, and the 14th in the club's ...
The previous three premierships had been won by either Richmond or Carlton; Richmond in 1980 and Carlton in 1979 and 1981, all against Collingwood.. The Tigers won eleven successive matches early in the 1982 VFL season and, after a slump as injuries took toll late on the home-and-away rounds, returned to their most devastating form in the finals.
1908 Premiership Team: The First three-in-a-row in the VFL/AFL - Defeated Essendon Football Club B: Clark Beck Ford HB: Flynn Payne Jinks C: Bruce McGregor Kennedy HF: Lang Marchbank Gotz F: Kelly Gardiner Topping : Foll: Johnson Hammond Elliot (C) Coach: Jack Worrall. Note: This was the first premiership team not containing a single first year ...
Firstly in 1981, when Parkin guided Carlton to a premiership victory against Collingwood by a margin of 20 points, in Parkin's first year as senior coach of Carlton and again in 1982, when Parkin guided Carlton to another premiership victory for the second straight consecutive year in a row, this time against Richmond by a margin of 18 points.
Carlton wins the 86th VFL Premiership (Carlton 14.19 (103) d Richmond 12.13 (83)) Brownlow Medal awarded to Brian Wilson ; The inaugural VFL Players Association Most Valuable Player Award goes to Leigh Matthews . The award would be renamed the Leigh Matthews Trophy in his honour in 2002.
He wore the Number 5 guernsey. In 1979 he kicked 53 goals and lead Carlton's goalkicking for the year. In the 1979 VFL Grand Final he is remembered for receiving the ball from the sliding Wayne Harmes and kicking the winning goal to give the Blues a premiership win over Collingwood. [1] Sheldon was part of the Blues' 1981 and 1982 premiership ...
In 1995, Carlton became the first team to win twenty matches in a home-and-away season (finishing with a record of 20–2), and won the Grand Final against Geelong to claim its sixteenth premiership. Carlton reached two other Grand Finals during the 1990s, losing to Essendon in 1993 and to the Kangaroos in 1999; in 1999, Carlton had come from ...
Collingwood 21.15 (141) defeated Carlton 4.9 (33). Both teams were out of finals contention when they met in the last round of the 2004 season. But when Carlton and Collingwood came together at the MCG, the ladder positions became irrelevant, [22] as they would record the largest home-and-away crowd for the 2004 season.