It was the club's sixteenth and, as of 2018, most recent premiership. Jump to ladder Brought to you by. The 1995 AFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football game contested between the Geelong Football Club and Carlton Football Club, held at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Melbourne on 30 September 1995.
... AFL Premiership Ladder AFL Premiership Ladder. Viewed Team selection: A boyhood dream comes true Matthew Cottrell will make his AFL debut this weekend. It was a record-breaking season for the club, in which it set a new record by winning twenty matches during the premiership season. CARLTON will honour its 1995 premiership heroes this weekend with a retro theme for Friday night’s clash with Hawthorn at Etihad Stadium which … The club's star players were all aging – its key position players and leading midfielders, Bradley, Dean, Kernahan, Madden, Spalding and Williams were all older than 30 at the start of the season – and most had expected Carlton's form to drop away. The official AFL website of the Carlton Football Club. Carlton opened the home-and-away season strongly, winning its first seven games to move to the top of the ladder. He was not injured. 7 hrs AFL news. Visit site. Carlton's key senior personnel were all unchanged from 1994: The following are the senior and supplementary squads for the 1995 season. Carlton won the AFL premiership, defeating Geelong in the Grand Final. For Carlton, recruit of the year Scott Camporeale and impressive youngster Adrian Whitehead played Grand Final football in their debut year, whilst Glenn Manton and Matt Clape shared that honour in their first season for the Blues.
Numbers in parentheses represent senior games played and goals kicked for Carlton in the 1995 AFL premiership season.
The club had won the minor premiership in 1993 and finished second after the home-and-away season in 1994, but had failed in the finals in both years. David Parkin and Stephen Kernahan lift the 1995 premiership trophy. Both clubs were back in the grand final after recent unsuccessful attempts. Geelong looked like it had its best chance of winning a premiership since claiming the There had been strong pre-game build-up expecting a tight contest; and when the markets opened, Geelong was a slight 8/11 favourite with bookmakers,Carlton kicked the first four goals of the game, including three goals in four minutes between the 12th minute and the 16th minute.The game was no different in the second half. Therefore I am claiming that Carlton's 1995 flag is the most recent non-cheating untainted flag won in the AFL.
Carlton kicked five of the first six goals of the third quarter to extend the lead to twelve goals before two goals in time-on brought the margin back to 59 points at three quarter time, and key Geelong playmaker Peter Riccardi tore his hamstring early in the third term.In the post-match ceremony when Carlton players were being awarded their victory medallions, Peter Dean attempted to jump over the railing of the victory dais in celebration, but tripped and fell off it. This was Grand Final day, 1995 – the landing of Carlton’s sweet 16th Premiership in what was then 99 years of League competition – and it seemed so breathtakingly easy. Carlton has historically been one of the AFL's most successful clubs, having won sixteen senior VFL/AFL premierships, equal with Essendon as the most of any club; prior to this, it won six senior premierships, including two in the Victorian Football Association. Carlton had last played in the grand final in In the lead-up to the grand final, Carlton defeated the This grand final was billed as having the potential to be the best in years, with Carlton and Geelong finishing first and second on the ladder respectively and both in really good form. Additionally, there was no drop-off in form from the club's older stars, with Bradley in particular in career-best form, winning many media awards for his play during the year.Despite finishing four games clear atop the ladder, and entering the finals with a 13-game winning streak, Carlton was not a rampant favourite to win the premiership. Over the previous two seasons, the club had developed a reputation as finals chokers: in 1993, it had been favourite to win the Grand Final, but lost by 44 points against a young Essendon team; then in 1994, it finished second on the ladder, then lost to seventh-placed Melbourne by 27 points and to an injury-depleted Geelong by 33 points to be eliminated in fifth place.In the qualifying final, Carlton faced eighth-placed In the lead-up to the match, there was selection speculation over the availability of two players: Another notable inclusion in the premiership team was Five Carlton players and the coach were named in the There were two interstate matches played during the season between Rounds 11 and 12: No Carlton players were selected for either Western Australia or the Allies.The Carlton reserves team finished eighth out of twelve teams, with a record of 8–14 from 22 games, to miss the final six. Carlton ran out easy winners by 61 points, and collected our 16th Premiership cup. The club has also f However, the club's performance received a boost from breakout seasons from five of Carlton's developing players: Brown, Christou, Koutoufides, Ratten and Sexton – as well as a strong performance from rookie Scott Camporeale.