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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 ...
Des English (born 22 January 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Carlton in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1980s. Regarded as a tireless and absolutely reliable team player and defender, English played in the Carlton premiership sides of 1981 and 1982.
Four teams have won the pre-season premiership immediately after winning the main-season premiership. Carlton won the main VFL Premiership in 1982 and backed it up with a night premiership in 1983 . Hawthorn won the AFL Premiership in 1991 ; they then backed it up the following year to win the pre-season competition in 1992.
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.
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 ...
He played in the Carlton premiership sides of 1979, 1981, 1982 and 1987. For 1991, Johnston was signed by struggling SANFL club Sturt and was regarded as a key recruit in the hope of improving the Double Blues from only two wins in 1990, but injuries meant he played just three games for the Double Blues before injury ended his playing career ...