Didn't Dean Rice do his knee (again) in his first game for Carlton?

Recently delisted Stephen Browne had a pretty decent debut game. I think it was an interstate game?

Tim Reinets or Ian Herman (always get them mixed up) might have kicked 3 goals with their first 3 kicks of the game.

Pretty sure John (Hopper) McCormick kicked 2 goals with his first 2 kicks in his first game (versus Sydney at Homebush Stadium 2003) - I was there we lost - badly.

yep.

Bernie Evans busted him thumb Rd 1 1986 on debut the same game Mil did his knee on debut in the fwd pocket at the Wellington Rd end.

Ken Sheldon's first game (1977?) was against Geelong at Princess Park. It bucketed down all day, rain, hail, freezing cold, and the ground was under water. Final score was Carl 3.13 to Geel 2.12. I'm pretty sure that Sheldon kicked one of our 3 goals, and wore number 37.

After the hilarious Zach Tuohy bounce, Bomba Sheldon, Patzfitrick and I were pondering other great highs & lows from debut games to highlight inside the Blueseum somehow. We came up with:

HIGHS
Goals with first kicks - Ratts, Setanta, Garlett etc.
Walker's debut and flying mark

LOWS
Simpson not touching the ball until his fourth AFL match
Hanna's knee injury
Balkwill's only game being in light blue (M&M game)

Any others?

I too recall that game, was it 1 goal to nothing at half time maybe ?
Was the coldest i have ever been at the footy, and i went to a lot
of games over a lot of years, gawd that was miserable day indeed.
Spectators should have got paid that day i reckon !!

I too recall that game, was it 1 goal to nothing at half time maybe ?
Was the coldest i have ever been at the footy, and i went to a lot
of games over a lot of years, gawd that was miserable day indeed.
Spectators should have got paid that day i reckon !!

My memory (which may or may not be accurate, given that I was 9 at the time) is that the only time it stopped raining all day was at half time.

Amazing that a team with such stars couldn't make the finals.