2008 Carlton Football Club season explained

Club:Carlton Football Club
Season:2008
President:Richard Pratt, Stephen Kernahan
Coach:Brett Ratten
Captain:Chris Judd
Home Ground:Telstra Dome
(Training and administrative: MC Labour Park)
Regularseason Comp:AFL season
Regularseason Result:11th (10–12)
Club B&Amp;F:Best and Fairest
Best And Fairest:Chris Judd
Leading Goalscorer:Brendan Fevola (99)
Club Membership:40,764
Prevseason:2007
Nextseason:2009

The 2008 Carlton Football Club season was the Carlton Football Club's 145th season, and 112th as a member of the Australian Football League.

The club saw many changes to key personnel in 2008, with champion Chris Judd coming to the club as a new captain, former club captain Brett Ratten appointed senior coach, and Stephen Kernahan replacing Richard Pratt as president mid-season.

Carlton finished 11th out of 16 teams with ten wins and twelve losses in the 2008 AFL season. Although this did not result in a finals appearance, the season marked the end of one of the least successful periods in club history, which had seen five finishes in the bottom two between 2002 and 2007.

Club summary

The 2008 AFL season was the 112th season of the VFL/AFL competition since its inception in 1897; and, having competed in every season, it was also the 112th season contested by the Carlton Football Club.

As in previous years, the club's primary home ground was Telstra Dome, with home games expecting to draw larger crowds played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground; the traditional home ground MC Labour Park continued to serve as the training and administrative base. The club's joint major sponsors were telecommunications provider Optus, unchanged from 2007, and car manufacturer Hyundai, newly signed for the 2008 season; it was the start of Hyundai's second long-term stint as a major sponsor of the club, having previously been the major sponsor from 1995 to 1999.[1] As had been the case every year since 2003, Carlton had a full alignment with the Northern Bullants in the Victorian Football League, allowing Carlton-listed players to play with the Bullants when not selected in AFL matches.[2]

Carlton set a new club record membership, with a total of 40,764 members for the season, a significant increase on the previous record, set in 2007, of 35,431. The club's improved onfield performances also resulted an increase in attendances far in excess of those budgeted by the club, allowing the club to post a healthy operating profit for the season.[3]

Senior personnel

Presidency

Businessman and long-time benefactor of the club, Richard Pratt, was president of the club at the beginning of the season. However, he stepped down from the role in June 2008, in order to face criminal charges relating to his packaging business, Visy. Visy and competitor Amcor had been found guilty of price fixing in November 2007, but in June 2008, Pratt was personally charged with giving false and misleading evidence during the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission's investigation of the cartel, and he stepped aside from the football club to face the charges.[4]

Pratt had served as president since February 2007.[5] He was replaced by vice-president and former club captain Stephen Kernahan. The charges against Pratt were ultimately dropped, shortly before his death less than a year later in April 2009.[6]

Senior coach

Denis Pagan, Carlton's appointed senior coach at the start of 2007, had been sacked after Round 16, bringing an end to a 4½ year tenure in the role. Assistant coach and former club captain Brett Ratten, who had stepped in as caretaker coach after Pagan's dismissal, was appointed as the new senior coach for the 2008 season.

In the weeks following Pagan's dismissal, there was intense media speculation surrounding the possibility that former captain Michael Voss would be appointed as senior coach. Voss had retired from playing after 2006 and had no formal coaching experience, but was at the time considered likely to transition almost immediately into an AFL coaching role.[7] Carlton did approach Voss as a potential candidate, but he withdrew from the selection process relatively early. By the end of the selection process, three potential coaches remained, with Ratten selected ahead of assistant coach Guy McKenna and assistant coach Chris Bond. The appointment was formally announced on 20 August 2007, with two matches still remaining in the 2007 season.[8] Voss went on to coach for five years, then serve as an assistant at for seven years, before eventually joining Carlton as senior coach in 2022.[9]

Captaincy and leadership

Lance Whitnall, who had served as captain in the 2007 season, was delisted, and Chris Judd was elected to the captaincy in his place, despite having not previously played a game for the Blues. Judd had not been promised the captaincy as part of the conditions to trade him to the club, but his performance during the pre-season convinced the match committee and player group that he should take on the role. Nick Stevens was appointed vice-captain.[10] Andrew Carrazzo, Kade Simpson, Heath Scotland and Brendan Fevola made up the balance of the six-man leadership group when it was appointed in January, but Fevola was stood down from the group prior to the premiership season for disciplinary reasons.

Squad and player statistics for 2008

Flags represent the state of origin, i.e. the state in which the player played his Under-18s football.

Senior List
No. StatePlayer Age AFL Debut Recruited from Career (to end 2007) 2008 Player Statistics
Gms Gls Gms Gls B D K HB M T HO
1 217424762138875144201
2 212952141326213020710969
3 203518221411542335207137581
4 18221521143435242193118738
5 Chris Judd (c) 24134138211595082502584181
6 Kade Simpson (lg) 2365382291441224217013761
7 225413142 253 98 155 44 80 1
8 182013119596995945183
9 28Eastern (U18), 16047226 11 15 12 3
10 24East Fremantle, 411062390414926273
11 25Port Adelaide (SANFL, AFL), 7325111 5 6 5 12
13 21234
14 237093202522 29121081 15123
15 181342152767638211
16 19520453141641508142
17 24341512331297158411312
18 19122121 18091896116
19 2157601825102331439062331
20 Clint Benjamin 19
21 181435 16 19 10 5
22 192110160263420682
23 214141 2 24 17 7 11 6
24 27Northern (U18), 1921102217 6 517 304 213 113 60 1
25 Brendan Fevola (lg*) 261423872299 51 258 214 44 129 38 7
26 1954512724155
27 2192 111048621714
28 23Eastern (U18), 27142014 6 263 146 117 119 41 215
29 Heath Scotland (lg) 271384121115503296207122451
30 24851002175387256131138665
31 25Calder (U18), 601352 53 40 13 32 6
32 2410911912 3132189510620
33 2515794553945638196
34 Simon Wiggins2589201412 5 181 74 107 79 26 1
35 22
36 217428044362617
37 2054 4 47 34 13 28 7
38 2083110 7 3 3 1
44 Andrew Carrazzo (lg) 2463162143537282255133653
Rookie List
No. StatePlayer Age AFL Debut Recruited from Career (to end 2007) 2008 Player Statistics
Gms Gls Gms Gls B D K HB M T HO
39 19
40 Michael Jamison21North Ballarat (U18, VFL) 5161 14298446129
41 Lachie Hill 18
45 18
46 1811442
For players: (c) denotes captain, (vc) denotes vice-captain, (lg) denotes leadership group. Players' ages are given for 31 December 2007. Statistics for AFL matches: Gms – Games played, Gls – Goals, B – Behinds, D – Disposals, K – Kicks, HB – Handballs, M – Marks, T – Tackles, HO – Hitouts. Source for statistics: AFL Tables.[11]

Playing list changes

The following summarises all player changes between the conclusion of the 2007 season and the conclusion of the 2008 season.

Priority draft pick

Having finished second-last in 2007, Carlton received the second selection in each round of the draft. Additionally, the club received a priority draft pick in the National Draft as a result of finishing the 2007 season with a record of 4–18; under the rules in place at the time, priority selections were given to all teams who earned fewer than 16.5 premiership points for the year.

Because Carlton had also received a priority draft pick in the previous season, this season's priority selection was taken before the first round of the draft, rather than before the second round. This gave Carlton the No. 1 draft pick for the third consecutive draft.

Trade for Chris Judd

On 16 September 2007, shortly after his club was eliminated in the semi-finals, captain Chris Judd announced that he was leaving the club, and intended to return to a club in Melbourne for the remainder of his career. Aged 24, Judd was already a premiership captain, Brownlow Medallist, Norm Smith Medallist and Leigh Matthews Trophy winner with the Eagles, and was arguably the best player in the league at the time.[12]

Judd met with four clubs – Carlton,, and – and on 2 October 2007, announced that Carlton was his preferred destination, leaving the clubs to negotiate the details of a trade.[13] After informing West Coast early in negotiations that it would not be trading its number one draft pick for Judd,[14] Carlton agreed to trade its first and second round draft picks (No. 3 and 20) and twenty-year-old key position prospect Josh Kennedy (a former No. 4 draft pick) for Judd and a third round draft pick (No. 46).[15]

Delisting of Lance Whitnall

Shortly after trade week, Carlton made the decision to delist captain Lance Whitnall. Whitnall was only 28 years old, and had won the John Nicholls Medal only one season earlier in 2006, but the club was concerned that his degenerative knee injury would limit his output.[16]

In

Player Previous Club League via
AFL Trade Week, with pick No. 46, in exchange for Josh Kennedy and picks No. 3 and 20.
Richard Hadley[17] AFL Trade Week, in exchange for pick No. 52.
Matthew Kreuzer[18] AFL National Draft, priority round (pick No. 1)
AFL National Draft, third round (pick No. 36)
AFL National Draft, third round (pick No. 46)
Darren Pfeiffer[19] AFL Pre-season Draft, first round (pick No. 2)
AFL Rookie Draft, first round (pick No. 2)
Lachlan Hill AFL Rookie Draft, second round (pick No. 18)
AFL Rookie Draft, third round (pick No. 34)
Recruited on an international rookie contract during AFL Rookie Draft, fourth round (pick No. 48)

Out

Player New Club League via
Anthony Koutoufides[20] Retired from the AFL in late 2007
Matthew Lappin[21] (ass't coach), Northern Bullants[22] Retired from the AFL
AFL Trade Week, with picks No. 3 and 20, in exchange for Chris Judd and pick No. 46.
Dylan McLaren[23] Port Melbourne[24] Delisted
Lance WhitnallLalor[25] Delisted
(dev. coach)
Northern Bullants (playing coach)[26]
Delisted
Anthony Raso Frankston[27] Delisted
Craig Flint Mansfield[28] Delisted
Perth[29] Delisted from the rookie list
Cork GAA[30] Prior to Round 16, decided not to continue with Australian rules football, and returned to Ireland

Season summary

Pre-season matches

Tour of South AfricaIn late January and early February, the Carlton and Football Clubs travelled to South Africa; both clubs held community camps on the tour to promote development of Australian rules football in South Africa, and the tour concluded with an exhibition match in Centurion.[31]
Date and local timeOpponentScores (Carlton's scores indicated in bold)VenueAttendance
HomeAwayResult
align=left Saturday, 2 Februaryalign=left 9.10 (64)11.12 (78)Lost by 14 points ReportSuperSport Park, Centurion (N)5,222
NAB CupThe NAB Cup preseason competition was played as a sixteen-team knockout tournament in 2008. Carlton was eliminated in the quarter-finals.
Round Date and local timeOpponentScores (Carlton's scores indicated in bold)VenueAttendance
HomeAwayResult
1Saturday, 16 February 0.12.13 (85)1.13.13 (100)Won by 15 points ReportAAMI Stadium (A)9,133
2Saturday, 23 February 4.9.13 (103)4.3.15 (69)Lost by 34 points ReportTelstra Dome (A)20,940
NAB ChallengeFollowing elimination from the NAB Cup, Carlton played two exhibition pre-season matches.
Week Date and local timeOpponentScores (Carlton's scores indicated in bold)VenueAttendance
HomeAwayResult
3align=left Friday, 29 Februaryalign=left 15.13 (103)9.8 (62)Lost by 41 points ReportTraeger Park, Alice Springs (N)6,000 (approx.)
4align=left Friday, 7 Marchalign=left 13.15 (93)12.12 (84)Won by 9 pointsReportMC Labour Park (H)10,000 (approx.)

Home-and-away season

Round Date and local timeOpponentScores (Carlton's scores indicated in bold)VenueAttendanceLadder
position
HomeAwayResult
1align=left Thursday, 20 March align=left 11.13 (79)17.7 (109)Lost by 30 points ReportMelbourne Cricket Ground (H)72,55214th
2align=left Saturday, 29 March align=left 19.11 (125)12.13 (85)Lost by 40 points ReportTelstra Dome (A)43,39614th
3align=left Saturday, 5 April align=left 23.12 (150)21.8 (134)Lost by 16 points ReportMelbourne Cricket Ground (A)64,38814th
4align=left Sunday, 13 April align=left 17.9 (111)13.10 (88)Won by 23 points ReportMelbourne Cricket Ground (H)77,87312th
5align=left Sunday, 20 April align=left 9.14 (68)15.11 (101)Won by 33 points ReportMelbourne Cricket Ground (A)44,75911th
6align=left Saturday, 26 April align=left 11.15 (81)16.15 (111)Lost by 30 points ReportMelbourne Cricket Ground (H)41,03311th
7align=left Friday, 2 May align=left 10.14 (74)17.9 (111)Won by 37 points ReportSubiaco Oval (A)41,25411th
8align=left Saturday, 17 May align=left 12.20 (92)18.17 (125)Lost by 33 points ReportTelstra Dome (H)38,67511th
9align=left Saturday, 24 May align=left 14.13 (97)14.4 (88)Won by 9 points ReportTelstra Dome (H)28,9559th
10align=left Saturday, 31 May align=left 19.19 (133)12.5 (77)Lost by 56 points ReportTelstra Dome (A)46,23111th
11align=left Sunday, 8 June align=left 8.15 (63)10.15 (75)Won by 12 points ReportAAMI Stadium (A)29,24010th
12align=left Sunday, 15 June align=left 12.17 (89)17.17 (119)Won by 30 points ReportMelbourne Cricket Ground (A)80,3108th
13align=left Sunday, 22 June align=left 15.11 (101)20.16 (136)Lost by 35 points ReportMelbourne Cricket Ground (H)59,17710th
14align=left Saturday, 28 June align=left 12.16 (88)17.16 (118)Won by 30 points ReportMelbourne Cricket Ground (A)73,5039th
15align=left Friday, 11 July align=left 12.15 (87)18.11 (119)Lost by 32 points ReportMelbourne Cricket Ground (H)55,65810th
16align=left Sunday, 20 July align=left 18.11 (119)18.13 (121)Lost by 2 points ReportTelstra Dome (H)38,40111th
17align=left Sunday, 27 July align=left 15.8 (98)18.18 (126)Won by 28 points ReportTelstra Dome (A)37,87911th
18align=left Saturday, 2 August align=left 13.16 (94)12.14 (86)Lost by 8 points ReportAAMI Stadium (A)40,73011th
19align=left Saturday, 9 August align=left 18.24 (132)9.12 (66)Won by 66 points ReportTelstra Dome (H)29,69610th
20align=left Sunday, 17 August align=left 14.6 (90)22.9 (141)Lost by 51 points ReportTelstra Dome (H)43,40611th
21align=left Saturday, 23 August align=left 16.13 (109)18.7 (115)Won by 6 points ReportThe Gabba (A)34,32711th
22align=left Saturday, 30 August align=left 12.9 (81)24.15 (159)Lost by 78 points ReportTelstra Dome (H)49,05711th

Leading Goalkickers

Brendan Fevola was Carlton's leading goalkicker for 2008, kicking 99 goals for the season.[32] It was the sixth consecutive time that Fevola won the club goalkicking. The 99-goal tally was the highest of Fevola's career, but it was not enough to win the Coleman Medal, with 's Lance Franklin kicking 102 goals in the home-and-away season.[33]

Fevola's tally of 99 goals the highest season tally for Carlton history since Alex Jesaulenko's 115 goals in the 1970 season. In addition to his 99 goals at premiership level, Fevola kicked six goals for Victoria in the AFL Hall of Fame Tribute Match.

width=30%Playerwidth=5%Goalswidth=5%Behinds
99 51
25 22
25 10
17 6
15 9

Team awards and records

Game records
Season records
Other

Notable events

Brendan Fevola stood down from the leadership groupOn 16 March, less than a week before the opening match of the season, an intoxicated Brendan Fevola was caught urinating outside a Melbourne nightclub. The club demoted Fevola from its leadership group – into which he had been elevated two months earlier[39] – fined him $10,000, and put him on formal notice that no further alcohol-related off-field indiscretion would be tolerated;[40] this ultimatum was ultimately enacted following the 2009 season, when he was traded to following drunken behaviour at that season's Brownlow Medal Count.
Round 22 – Lance Franklin and Brendan Fevola both within reach of 100 goalsEntering the final round match between Carlton and, both Carlton's Brendan Fevola and Hawthorn's Lance Franklin had the opportunity to kick 100 goals for the season, a feat that no player had reached inside the home-and-away season since 1998. Frankin entered the match with 98 goals, and Fevola with 92 goals.

Franklin reached his 100th goal in the 25th minute of the first quarter, sparking the traditional pitch invasion which delayed play for eight minutes. Fevola was goalless in the first half of the game, scoring two behinds from four opportunities, but then kicked seven of Carlton's eight second-half goals to bring his final tally to 99. Hawthorn had built a game-winning lead by half time, so most of the play in the second half involved Carlton contriving to deliver the ball only to Fevola, and Hawthorn defending him with multiple players.

Prior to that match, Nick Stevens had received a death threat from a man who claimed that he would stab Stevens during the pitch invasion which would follow Franklin's 100th goal; Stevens had received death threats from the man previously, but this was the first one which described a specific threat. Ground security surrounded Stevens during the pitch invasion, and the invasion passed without incident.[41] In 2009, the threats against Stevens – as well as other threats against Andrew McLeod, Scott Lucas and Nathan Thompson – were traced to Eric Rundle; he was found guilty of stalking in May 2009, and was sentenced to 26 months jail.[42]

Individual awards and records

John Nicholls Medal

The Carlton Football Club Best and Fairest awards night took place on 11 September. The John Nicholls Medal, for the best and fairest player of the club, as well as several other awards, were presented on the night.[43]

John Nicholls MedalA new voting system was introduced for the John Nicholls Medal starting from this year. In each match, as in 2007, the five members of the Match Committee awarded votes; however, starting from this year, each committee member could award votes to up to eight players, and each player could receive up to ten votes from each judge; in previous years, each voter awarded five votes to the best player, four votes to the second-best player, and so on down to one vote for the fifth-best player. The player with the most total votes across all premiership season matches wins the award.

The winner of the John Nicholls Medal was Chris Judd, who polled 472 votes. Judd won the medal in his first season at the club, and it was the first of three John Nicholls Medals that Judd would win consecutively from 2008 to 2010. Judd won comfortably ahead of Marc Murphy (417 votes) and Brendan Fevola (373 votes). The top ten is given below.

Pos.
Player
Votes
1stChris Judd472
2ndMarc Murphy417
3rdBrendan Fevola373
4thAndrew Carrazzo316
5thBryce Gibbs288
6thNick Stevens287
7thJarrad Waite267
8thKade Simpson202
9thHeath Scotland201
10thBret Thornton197
Other awardsThe following other awards were presented on John Nicholls Medal night:

Other awards

AFLPA AwardsChris Judd finished in fifth place in the Leigh Matthews Trophy for 2008.[44]
All-Australian TeamThe 40-man squad for the All-Australian Team was announced on 2 September 2008, and the final team of 22 was announced on 15 September 2008. Chris Judd and Brendan Fevola were Carlton's only two nominees, and both were named in the final team, and Judd was named as captain.[45] [46]
AFL Rising StarTwo Carlton players were nominated for the AFL Rising Star award in 2008:

Kreuzer ultimately polled eleven votes to finish fourth for the award.[49]

Representative honoursThe following Carlton players were selected for representative teams during the 2008 season.
Australian Football Hall of FameAlex Jesaulenko, who played 256 games and won four premierships with Carlton between 1967 and 1979, was elevated to the status of Legend in the Australian Football Hall of Fame.[52]
Other

Northern Bullants

The Carlton Football Club had a full affiliation with the Northern Bullants during the 2008 season. It was the sixth season of the clubs' affiliation, which had been in place since 2003. Carlton senior- and rookie-listed players who were not selected to play in the Carlton team were eligible to play for either the Northern Bullants seniors or reserves team, including both Victorian Football League matches. Home games were shared between the Bullants' traditional home ground, Preston City Oval, and Carlton's traditional home ground, Visy Park. Carlton development coach David Teague was appointed as the playing senior coach for the Bullants for the season.

The Bullants finished eighth out of thirteen in the VFL, after being defeated in the elimination final by Casey by five points.[55] Carlton listed player Jason Saddington, who played two games at AFL level during the season, won the Laurie Hill Trophy as the Bullants' best and fairest.[56]

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