| Club: | Carlton Football Club |
| Season: | 2011 |
| President: | Stephen Kernahan |
| Coach: | Brett Ratten |
| Captain: | Chris Judd |
| Home Ground: | Etihad Stadium (Training and administrative: Visy Park) |
| Regularseason Comp: | AFL season |
| Regularseason Result: | 5th (14-7-1) |
| Finals Series: | Finals series |
| Finals Result: | 5th |
| Club B&Amp;F: | Best and Fairest |
| Best And Fairest: | Marc Murphy |
| Leading Goalscorer: | Andrew Walker (56)[1] |
| Highest Attendance: | 85,936 vs. (Round 17) |
| Lowest Attendance: | 37,607 vs. (Round 5) |
| Club Membership: | 43,791 |
| Prevseason: | 2010 |
| Nextseason: | 2012 |
The 2011 Carlton Football Club season was the Carlton Football Club's 148th season of competition, and 115th as a member of the Australian Football League.
Carlton finished 5th out of 17 teams in the 2011 AFL season with a win-loss record of 14–7–1, ultimately eliminated after a three-point semi-final loss against West Coast.
The 2011 AFL season was the 115th season of the VFL/AFL competition since its inception in 1897; and, having competed in every season, it was also the 115th season contested by the Carlton Football Club.
Former club champion Stephen Kernahan continued as club president in the 2011 season, a position he has held since August 2008.[2] The club's two joint major sponsors, car manufacturer Hyundai and confectionery company Mars, were unchanged from 2010.[3] As in previous years, the club's primary home ground was Etihad Stadium, with home games expecting to draw larger crowds played at the M.C.G., and with traditional home ground Visy Park serving as the training and administrative base. As has been the case every year since 2003, Carlton has 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.[4]
Carlton set a new club record by selling 43,791 memberships for the 2011 season.[5] The previous high of 42,408 members, set in 2009, was surpassed on 9 June.[6] The club had the fourth-highest membership in the league, and the second-highest of clubs who play home games only in Victoria, behind only Collingwood. The club's membership campaign slogan for 2011 was "No passengers."[7]
Brett Ratten and Chris Judd continued in their respective roles as senior coach and captain of the club, each entering his fourth season appointed to the job. Kade Simpson continued in the role of vice-captain, and Michael Jamison and Andrew Carrazzo retained their places in the club's leadership group from 2010. Bryce Gibbs, Marc Murphy and Jordan Russell were elevated into the expanded leadership group for 2011, replacing Heath Scotland, who stepped down, and Simon Wiggins, who retired from the AFL at the end of 2010.
There was a substantial number of changes to Brett Ratten's senior coaching panel between 2010 and 2011. The contracts of forward-line assistant coach Matthew Lappin and defensive assistant coach Brett Montgomery were not renewed, with the pair taking assistant coaching roles at Collingwood[8] and the Western Bulldogs[9] respectively. Midfield assistant coach Robert Harvey, and development coach/VFL senior coach David Teague also left to pursue assistant coaching roles at St Kilda[10] and West Coast[11] respectively. The three vacant assistant coaching positions were filled by Alan Richardson from Essendon, John Barker from, and Gavin Brown from . Darren Harris, who had been serving as development manager since 2009, stepped into Teague's role as development coach and VFL senior coach, and Luke Webster also joined the club as a development coach.[12]
Carlton adopted a new 'clash guernsey' design for the 2011 season. The new design was predominantly sky blue, with navy blue CFC monogram, numbers, trimming and side-panels. The sky blue guernsey replaced a predominantly white clash guernsey which had been in use since 2007. The guernsey was worn with new sky blue shorts, and the traditional navy blue socks (with a white hoop added in the event of clashing socks).[13] The clash guernsey was first worn in Round 7 against .[14]
Flags represent the state of origin, i.e. the state in which the player played his Under-18s football.
| Senior List[15] | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | State | Player | Age | AFL Debut | Recruited from | Career (to end 2010) | 2011 Player Statistics | ||||||||||
| Gms | Gls | Gms | Gls | B | D | K | HB | M | T | HO | |||||||
| 1 | 24 | 103 | 37 | 24 | 56 | 27 | 349 | 238 | 111 | 111 | 62 | 1 | |||||
| 2 | Jordan Russell (lg)[16] | 24 | 93 | 15 | 16 | 3 | 2 | 267 | 164 | 103 | 73 | 55 | – | ||||
| 3 | Marc Murphy (lg) | 23 | 102 | 82 | 24 | 22 | 13 | 699 | 391 | 308 | 109 | 108 | 1 | ||||
| 4 | Bryce Gibbs (lg) | 21 | 89 | 40 | 23 | 21 | 18 | 548 | 381 | 167 | 174 | 82 | 3 | ||||
| 5 | Chris Judd (c) | 27 | 198 | 179 | 24 | 14 | 16 | 633 | 301 | 332 | 69 | 148 | – | ||||
| 6 | Kade Simpson (vc)[17] | 26 | 133 | 79 | 24 | 17 | 18 | 536 | 361 | 175 | 147 | 79 | 5 | ||||
| 8 | 21 | 56 | 31 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 140 | 66 | 74 | 27 | 44 | 148 | |||||
| 9 | 19 | East Fremantle | 8 | 0 | 2 | – | – | 28 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 4 | – | ||||
| 10 | 18 | – | – | 3 | – | – | 38 | 29 | 9 | 9 | 2 | – | |||||
| 11 | 23 | 33 | 8 | 20 | 4 | 8 | 229 | 86 | 143 | 42 | 51 | 591 | |||||
| 12 | 21 | Tasmania (U18/VFL) | 26 | 19 | 23 | 10 | 21 | 517 | 304 | 213 | 121 | 97 | 15 | ||||
| 13 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 23 | 8 | 8 | 409 | 296 | 113 | 77 | 76 | – | |||||
| 14 | 24 | 100 | 41 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 62 | 23 | 39 | 13 | 23 | – | |||||
| 15 | 21 | Geelong (U18, AFL) | 2 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 300 | 195 | 105 | 110 | 42 | – | ||||
| 16 | 22 | 25 | 23 | 2 | – | 3 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 11 | 5 | – | |||||
| 17 |  | 27 | 72 | 56 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 104 | 72 | 32 | 33 | 10 | 59 | ||||
| 18 | 22 | 57 | 3 | 3 | – | – | 20 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 3 | – | |||||
| 19 | 24 | 120 | 165 | 24 | 50 | 22 | 297 | 176 | 121 | 90 | 84 | – | |||||
| 21 | 21 | 14 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | – | |||||
| 22 | 22 | 35 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 74 | 29 | 45 | 21 | 17 | 185 | |||||
| 23 | 21 | 34 | 28 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 173 | 103 | 70 | 70 | 34 | 1 | |||||
| 24 | 18 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 25 | 18 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 26 | 18 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 27 | 24 | 45 | 2 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 189 | 122 | 67 | 41 | 30 | – | |||||
| 29 | 30 | 199 | 67 | 24 | 5 | 5 | 617 | 346 | 271 | 163 | 73 | 2 | |||||
| 30 | 27 | 131 | 153 | 12 | 16 | 19 | 174 | 116 | 58 | 83 | 24 | – | |||||
| 31 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 67 | 38 | 29 | 19 | 21 | – | |||||
| 32 | 27 | 161 | 8 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 317 | 215 | 102 | 146 | 27 | 1 | |||||
| 33 | 28 | 195 | 127 | 6 | – | 3 | 69 | 30 | 39 | 10 | 13 | – | |||||
| 34 | 26 | – | – | 22 | 1 | 2 | 354 | 195 | 159 | 131 | 50 | – | |||||
| 36 | Rohan Kerr | 19 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| 38 | 21 | 30 | 51 | 24 | 48 | 32 | 294 | 216 | 78 | 84 | 96 | – | |||||
| 40 | Michael Jamison (lg) | 24 | North Ballarat (U18, VFL) | 57 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 176 | 114 | 62 | 71 | 26 | – | |||
| 43 | 22 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 69 | 38 | 31 | 17 | 11 | – | |||||
| 44 | Andrew Carrazzo (lg) | 27 | 122 | 36 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 424 | 205 | 219 | 75 | 95 | 2 | ||||
| 45 | 21 | 45 | 5 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 130 | 79 | 51 | 44 | 28 | – | |||||
| 46 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 7 | 278 | 162 | 116 | 59 | 115 | – | |||||
| Rookie List[18] | |||||||||||||||||
| No. | State | Player | Age | AFL Debut | Recruited from | Career (to end 2010) | 2011 Player Statistics | ||||||||||
| Gms | Gls | Gms | Gls | B | D | K | HB | M | T | HO | |||||||
| 20 | 20 | – | – | 1 | – | – | 8 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | – | |||||
| 28 | 19 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 35 | 21 | – | – | 12 | 3 | 1 | 215 | 117 | 98 | 47 | 55 | – | |||||
| 37 | 19 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 39 | 24 | – | – | 2 | 1 | – | 13 | 10 | 3 | 7 | 8 | – | |||||
| 41 | 20 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 42 | | 21 | – | – | 11 | 3 | 1 | 138 | 74 | 64 | 31 | 9 | – | ||||
| 47 | 19 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| 48 | Blake Bray | 18 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| Senior coaching panel[19] | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | Coach | Coaching position | Carlton Coaching debut | Former clubs as coach | |||||||||||||
| Senior Coach | 2007 | Melbourne (a), Norwood (EFL) (s) | |||||||||||||||
| Senior Assistant Coach | 2011 | East Burwood (s), Coburg (s), Western Bulldogs (a), Collingwood (a), Essendon (a) | |||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach | 2011 | St Kilda (a), Hawthorn (a) | |||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach | 2011 | Collingwood (a), Collingwood (VFL) (s) | |||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach | 2009 | ||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach | 2008 | Claremont (s), Fremantle (d, a), Melbourne (a, cs) | |||||||||||||||
| Development & Academy Manager, and VFL Senior Coach | 2009 | Wodonga Raiders (O&MFL) (s), NSW/ACT Rams (d), West Perth (s), West Coast (a) | |||||||||||||||
| Development coach | 2011 | ||||||||||||||||
| For players: (c) denotes captain, (vc) denotes vice-captain, (lg) denotes leadership group. For coaches: (s) denotes senior coach, (cs) denotes caretaker senior coach, (a) denotes assistant coach, (d) denotes development coach. Players' ages are given for 1 January 2011. 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. | |||||||||||||||||
The following summarises all player changes between the conclusion of the 2010 season and the conclusion of the 2011 season.
| Player | Previous Club | League | via | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Collins[20] | AFL Trade Week, in exchange for Shaun Grigg | |||
| Jeremy Laidler[21] | AFL Trade Week, with pick No. 41, in exchange for picks No. 36 and 53 | |||
| Matthew Watson[22] | AFL National Draft, first round (pick No. 18) | |||
| AFL National Draft, second round (pick No. 34) | ||||
| AFL National Draft, second round (pick No. 42) | ||||
| AFL National Draft, fourth round (pick No. 67) | ||||
| AFL National Draft, fourth round (pick No. 70) | ||||
| Ed Curnow[23] | AFL Rookie Draft, first round (pick No. 18) | |||
| AFL Rookie Draft, third round (pick No. 51) | ||||
| AFL Rookie Draft, fourth round (pick No. 66) | ||||
| Blake Bray | Elevated from NSW/ACT Scholarship during AFL Rookie Draft, fifth round (pick No. 78) |
| Player | New Club | League | via | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunshine[24] | Retired from AFL | |||
| AFL Trade Week, in exchange for Andrew Collins | ||||
| Sam Jacobs[25] | AFL Trade Week, in exchange for picks No. 33 and 67 | |||
| East Fremantle[26] | Retired from AFL | |||
| Brad Fisher[27] | West Adelaide[28] | Delisted | ||
| Greenvale[29] | Delisted | |||
| Sturt[30] | Delisted | |||
| West Perth[31] | Delisted | |||
| Caleb Tiller | Cranbourne[32] | Delisted | ||
| Josh Donaldson | West Perth[33] | Delisted from rookie list |
| Player | Change | |
|---|---|---|
| Promoted from the rookie list to the senior list during AFL National Draft, fifth round (pick No. 85) | ||
| Promoted from the rookie list to the senior list during AFL National Draft, sixth round (pick No. 99) | ||
| Promoted from the rookie list to the senior list during AFL National Draft, seventh round (pick No. 108) | ||
| Kane Lucas[34] | Changed guernsey number from No. 24 to No. 9 | |
| Changed guernsey number from No. 7 to No. 14 | ||
| Delisted, then re-drafted as a rookie during AFL Rookie Draft, second round (pick No. 35) | ||
| Ed Curnow[35] | Prior to Round 1, Curnow was made a nominated rookie for 2011. | |
| Prior to Round 1, Mitchell was moved to the long term injury list (shoulder), and Casboult was elevated from the rookie list in his place. | ||
| Prior to Round 6, Casboult was moved to the long term injury list (knee), and Tuohy was elevated from the rookie list in his place. | ||
| Prior to Round 9, Mitchell returned to the senior list from the long-term injury list, and Tuohy returned to the rookie list. | ||
| Prior to Round 11, Mitchell was again moved to the long term injury list (shoulder), and Tuohy was again elevated from the rookie list in his place. | ||
| Prior to Round 13, Casboult returned to the rookie list from the long-term injury list. | ||
| Prior to Round 14, Collins was moved to the long term injury list (shoulder), and O'Keeffe was elevated from the rookie list in his place. | ||
| Prior to Round 17, McInnes was moved to the long term injury list (shoulder), and Twomey was elevated from the rookie list in his place. | ||
| Ryan Houlihan[41] | Prior to the Elimination Final, Houlihan announced his retirement, effective immediately for Carlton matches, and effective at the end of the season for Northern Bullants matches. |
| Round | Date and local time | Opponent | Scores (Carlton's scores indicated in bold) | Venue | Attendance | |||
| Home | Away | Result | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pool matches | ||||||||
| 1 | Saturday, 12 February | 0.6.5 (41) | 0.3.5 (23) | Won by 18 points Report | Etihad Stadium [H] | 40,300 | ||
| align=left | Saturday, 12 February | align=left | 0.3.8 (26) | 0.5.3 (33) | Lost by 7 points Report | |||
| Finished second out of three in the group; eliminated from NAB Cup | ||||||||
| Week | Date and local time | Opponent | Scores (Carlton's scores indicated in bold) | Venue | Attendance | |||||
| Home | Away | Result | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left | Saturday, 26 February | align=left | GWS | 4.2 (26) | 29.9 (183) | Won by 157 points Report | Manuka Oval [A] | 5,991 | |
| 2 | align=left | Friday, 4 March | align=left | 15.10 (100) | 11.10 (76) | Won by 24 points Report | Visy Park [H] | 3,000 (approx.) | ||
| 3 | align=left | Saturday, 12 March | align=left | 11.15 (81) | 14.8 (92) | Lost by 11 points Report | Visy Park [H] | 8,000 (approx.) | ||
2011 was Carlton's best regular season performance for more than a decade. The team finished in fifth place with a record of 14–7–1, two wins above in sixth, and two-and-a-half wins below in fourth. Carlton spent the entire season between second and fifth on the ladder. Performances were consistent throughout the year based on finishing position, including:
Through the latter half of the season, Carlton was mostly in a fight with Hawthorn and West Coast to claim third and fourth positions. Although Carlton held fourth place for much of the latter half of the year, West Coast was always in a strong position to overtake Carlton in the final rounds due to having a game in hand and more games against non-finalists. West Coast ultimately moved into the top four in Round 22, after Carlton's loss against Hawthorn.
| Round | Date and local time | Opponent | Scores (Carlton's scores indicated in bold) | Venue | Attendance | Ladder position | |||||
| Home | Away | Result | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | align=left | Thursday, 24 March | align=left | 14.20 (104) | 13.6 (84) | Won by 20 points Report | M.C.G. [H] | 60,654 | 3rd | ||
| 2 | align=left | Saturday, 2 April | align=left | 7.10 (52) | 26.15 (171) | Won by 119 points Report | The Gabba [A] | 27,914 | 2nd | ||
| 3 | align=left | Friday, 8 April | align=left | 15.12 (102) | 11.8 (74) | Lost by 28 points Report | M.C.G. [A] | 88,181 | 4th | ||
| 4 | align=left | Saturday, 16 April | align=left | 11.13 (79) | 11.13 (79) | Match drawn Report | M.C.G. [H] | 78,065 | 5th | ||
| 5 | align=left | Saturday, 23 April | align=left | 11.19 (85) | 12.7 (79) | Won by 6 points Report | Etihad Stadium [H] | 37,607 | 4th | ||
| 6 | align=left | Friday, 29 April | align=left | 10.11 (71) | 12.15 (87) | Won by 16 points Report | S.C.G. [A] | 28,081 | 3rd | ||
| 7 | align=left | Monday, 9 May | align=left | 12.9 (81) | 11.18 (84) | Won by 3 points Report | Etihad Stadium [A] | 41,576 | 3rd | ||
| 8 | Bye | 4th | |||||||||
| 9 | align=left | Friday, 20 May | align=left | 14.16 (100) | 15.12 (102) | Lost by 2 points Report | Etihad Stadium [H] | 48,429 | 5th | ||
| 10 | align=left | Friday, 27 May | align=left | 6.10 (46) | 13.15 (93) | Won by 47 points Report | M.C.G. [A] | 47,464 | 4th | ||
| 11 | align=left | Sunday, 5 June | align=left | 7.7 (49) | 16.15 (111) | Won by 62 points Report | AAMI Stadium [A] | 23,192 | 4th | ||
| 12 | align=left | Sunday, 12 June | align=left | 19.10 (124) | 9.9 (63) | Won by 61 points Report | Etihad Stadium [H] | 43,617 | 3rd | ||
| 13 | align=left | Sunday, 19 June | align=left | 15.10 (100) | 10.6 (66) | Won by 34 points Report | Etihad Stadium [H] | 42,788 | 3rd | ||
| 14 | align=left | Sunday, 26 June | align=left | 10.7 (67) | 15.13 (103) | Lost by 36 points Report | Etihad Stadium [H] | 38,241 | 4th | ||
| 15 | align=left | Saturday, 2 July | align=left | 12.9 (81) | 28.16 (184) | Won by 103 points Report | M.C.G. [A] | 59,650 | 3rd | ||
| 16 | align=left | Sunday, 10 July | align=left | 14.12 (96) | 9.15 (69) | Lost by 27 points Report | Etihad Stadium [A] | 38,582 | 4th | ||
| 17 | align=left | Saturday, 16 July | align=left | 11.13 (79) | 13.20 (98) | Lost by 19 points Report | M.C.G. [H] | 85,936 | 4th | ||
| 18 | align=left | Saturday, 23 July | align=left | 12.7 (79) | 24.9 (153) | Won by 74 points Report | M.C.G. [A] | 74,123 | 4th | ||
| 19 | align=left | Friday, 29 July | align=left | 9.8 (62) | 11.14 (80) | Won by 18 points Report | Etihad Stadium [A] | 41,332 | 4th | ||
| 20 | align=left | Saturday, 6 August | align=left | 21.8 (134) | 7.16 (58) | Won by 76 points Report | M.C.G. [H] | 42,342 | 4th | ||
| 21 | align=left | Saturday, 13 August | align=left | 12.13 (85) | 16.19 (115) | Won by 30 points Report | Patersons Stadium [A] | 34,737 | 4th | ||
| 22 | align=left | Friday, 19 August | align=left | 8.18 (66) | 10.18 (78) | Lost by 12 points Report | Etihad Stadium [H] | 52,052 | 5th | ||
| 23 | Bye | 5th | |||||||||
| 24[42] | align=left | Saturday, 3 September | align=left | 13.8 (86) | 9.12 (66) | Lost by 20 points Report | MCG [H] | 55,606 | 5th | ||
In the elimination final against Essendon, Carlton fell fourteen points behind during the first quarter, after kicking five early behinds to Essendon's three goals; the Blues then kicked the next ten goals of the game before half time to set up an unbeatable lead, and finished with a comfortable 62-point win.[43]
In the semi-final against West Coast, Carlton kicked the first four goals of the match, before conceding eight goals to three in the second quarter to trail by 11 points at half-time. The second half was closely fought, with West Coast maintaining a one- to three-goal lead for most of the half. After the Eagles opened the lead to 21 points during time-on in the final quarter, Carlton kicked the last three goals of the game to narrow the margin to less than a goal; but, time expired, and West Coast won by three points.[44]
| Week | Date and local time | Opponent | Scores (Carlton's scores indicated in bold) | Venue | Attendance | |||||
| Home | Away | Result | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Elimination Final | align=left | Sunday, 11 September | align=left | 21.23 (149) | 13.9 (87) | Won by 62 points Report | MCG [H] | 90,161 | ||
| First Semi-final | align=left | Saturday, 17 September | align=left | 15.11 (101) | 15.8 (98) | Lost by 3 points Report | Patersons Stadium [A] | 42,803 | ||
Andrew Walker was Carlton's leading goalkicker for 2011. It was the first time Walker had won the club goalkicking. He had kicked only 37 goals in his first seven seasons,[45] but after struggling to hold his place in the team in 2010 as a midfielder, he became a permanent forward in 2011, where he kicked 56 goals in 24 games.[46]
In addition to Walker's 56 goals, Eddie Betts kicked 50 goals and Jeff Garlett kicked 48 goals; all three players finished inside the top twenty for the Coleman Medal. Carlton was the only club to have three players kick more than 40 goals in the home and away season.[47]
| Player | width=5% | Goals | width=5% | Behinds | width=5% | Coleman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 56 | 27 | 7th | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 50 | 22 | 10th | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 48 | 32 | 13th | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 22 | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 21 | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 17 | 18 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 16 | 19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 15 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 14 | 16 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 13 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
*The table reflects goals kicked in both home-and-away season and finals. However, the player's position in the Coleman Medal standings is based upon home-and-away season goals only.|}Team awards and records
Individual awards and recordsJohn Nicholls MedalThe Carlton Football Club Best and Fairest awards night took place on 4 October. The John Nicholls Medal, for the best and fairest player of the club, as well as several other awards, were presented on the night..
The winner of the John Nicholls Medal was Marc Murphy, who polled 678 votes. It was the first John Nicholls Medal of Murphy's career. Murphy won comfortably ahead of Chris Judd (469 votes) and Bryce Gibbs (448 votes). The top ten is given below.[58]
Brownlow MedalThe lead-up to the 2011 Brownlow Medal focussed heavily on Carlton. Chris Judd entered the night as a strong favourite to win; a series of eye-catching performances meant he became the outright favourite early in the season; after Round 20, major betting agency Sportsbet was offering odds shorter than $2 for Judd to win, and decided to pay out early to all punters who had already backed Judd for the win.[59] Murphy also figured prominently in Brownlow markets during the season, fuelled by his career-best season, and very strong polling in other MVP awards, most notably the AFL Coaches Association Player of the Year Award. Bookmakers were offering odds as short as $5.50 in Round 18, when Murphy was second-favourite behind Judd.[60] By the end of the season, Murphy was fifth-favourite behind Judd, 's Adam Goodes and 's Scott Pendlebury and Dane Swan.[61] In the end, neither player won the medal. Judd polled 23 votes to finish equal 5th, and Murphy polled 19 votes to finish equal 7th, out of eligible players. Bryce Gibbs was the only other Carlton player with double figures, polling 12 votes.[62] AFLPA AwardsFor each of the AFLPA awards, one or three Carlton players were nominated following internal vote of Carlton players (except for Best Captain, where captain Chris Judd was nominated by default). A vote of all players in the league, selecting from a ballot of all club nominees, was then used to determine the final placings.[63] Chris Judd won the Leigh Matthews Trophy for the second time in his career, the first being in 2006 when he was playing for the West Coast Eagles. He became the fifth player to win the award more than once. He polled 1,347 votes, almost three times as many as second-place finisher Scott Pendlebury . He also won the Best Captain Award for the first time in his career.[64]
Other awards
Overall, five Carlton marks were nominated throughout the season, and all five won their individual Mark of the Week votes.
Former premiership player and coach Robert Walls was elevated to Legend status in the Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame. Andrew Walker, Heath Scotland and Andrew Carrazzo were all awarded life membership of the club at the AGM in December, as recognition for eight years of senior service.[84] Player records
Milestones
Northern BullantsThe Carlton Football Club had a full affiliation with the Northern Bullants during the 2011 season. It was the ninth 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 and Foxtel Cup matches. As in 2010, home games were shared between the Bullants' traditional home ground, Preston City Oval, and Carlton's traditional home ground, Visy Park. The Bullants finished 4th out of 13 in the VFL, after being defeated in the preliminary final by Port Melbourne.[102] The Bullants had finished sixth on the ladder after the home-and-away season with a record of 10–8.[103] Additionally, in the inaugural season of the Foxtel Cup, the Bullants reached the second round (quarter finals) before being eliminated by eventual runners-up Claremont.[104] Carlton's Brock McLean, who played nineteen matches for the Bullants through the year, won the Laurie Hill Trophy as the Bullants' best and fairest.[105] Notes1. Although Hawthorn had a higher overall membership, that Victorian-based club additionally plays several home games in Tasmania each year. 2. Ratten also served as head coach in the final six rounds of 2007 as caretaker, before being officially appointed as head coach for 2008. 3. Many draft picks involved in trades changed their position slightly on draft day (e.g Carlton acquired pick No. 33 in the trade for Sam Jacobs, then used pick No. 34 to draft Pat McCarthy), because the use of compensatory draft picks in the early rounds of the draft or passing in later rounds of the draft led to the draft picks being re-numbered. References | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||