As we all know, defeating GWS would have taken us to 10 straight wins.

So sadly we don't add to our previous group of 13 streaks of 10 or more which has these Premiership connections:

8 of those streaks involved 9 Premiership teams
1907-1908 streak of 15, our 2nd best which crossed two Premiership seasons
1914 - 12
1915 - 10
1938 (1937-8) - 10
1945 - 10 (inc. rd.1 1946)
1968 - 10
1987 - 12
1995 - 18 (inc. rd.2 1996)

The other 5 were either Grand Finals - 1932 (11), 1969 (10)
or within 3 years of GFs - 1942 (10), 1975 (10), 2000 (13)

And the other 7 flag years?
Not too shabby either...
1906 - 2 x streaks of 6, one ending in GF
1947 - 2 x streaks of 6
1970 - 8
1972 - 8 (with 11/12)
1979 - 8 (with 12/13)
1982 - 8

1981 is the "odd man out" - best was only 5, but won 7 of last 8 (inc. last 4)

Woohoo….

I LOVE them odds GOPP…!


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Updated the original post with Home & Away wrap summarising the 2023 team's achievements here...

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=37845&p=2172777#p2172777

Update

Added this to front page:

First team to climb 10 ladder positions after the half way mark of the season.

ref. AFL Tables "Rises within Season"
https://afltables.com/afl/seas/ladders/ ... .html#fluc

Incidentally, GWS & Sydney also had big rises this year: 8 and 7 places respectively.

Geelong had the equal 6th biggest fall of all time within a season dropping 7 places, followed by Essenflog with 6.


On the Down side:

Every other club has had time at the top of the ladder since Carlton last did 338 rounds ago.

And more sadly...

No other club in ANY of Australia's 'footy' codes - AFL, NRL, Rugby Union or A-League has waited LONGER to play in a Grand Final in their code than the Carlton Football Club

Did you have to mention the last point?

....and we've still won 23 Premierships....16 in the VFL/AFL. Got to give other teams a chance whilst we are drinking out of our cups....maybe one of the cups had bath water.

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It's all MY fault actually.
I'll finally confess.

Our table at the Radisson President Hotel on Grand Final night 1995 was slap bang next to the table with the Cup on it.
Drank more champers out of that sucker than a man has a right to.

At the end of the night I said to my family: "I can die happy now, don't need more than this. We are the undisputed rulers of the AFL/VFL"

I have regretted those words in the long absence since more than you can imagine.

I am Deeply, Truly SORRY.

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Not only did we win the flag in 45, in 44 we lost in the final home and away game by a point to fall out of the finals. The dogs took our spot.
Just give us the cup!

Great post jezza.
Season '23 just keeps on giving eh?

rhino27: parallels to '45 have been visible for sure.
However, '44 we were out of the top 4 in first 3 rounds whereas last year we were in top 8 right to the bitter ugly end.

Incidentally, 1977 was an exact copy of last year: in all season until the last round.
Although we did not not go all the way the following year we DID go on to win 3 flags within 5 years.

I'll gladly take Any combination of the above!

Same. Either would do me just fine.

dunno if this has been brought up b4 but...

Friday's game was the second biggest AFL/VFL Friday Night crowd of all time.

Gee/Coll Prel. Final Fri 21st Sept. 2007 - 98,002 the only one bigger.

PLUS...

Also the Biggest Semi-Final crowd since 1971!

Crowd sizes were nuts in late '60s - early '70s with heaps more standing room available.
All but one of the 8 x semi finals 1968-1971 had attendances above 99,000
Added to those only two other semis ('65, '67) have ever had bigger crowds
than the Carlton/Melbourne Semi Final last Friday.

In fact NO Preliminary Final except the 2007 one above, has exceeded this game's attendance since 1973!

Truly a classic historical match.

Great stuff GoPP cheers

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Watching the 82 GF….

can not believe Hunter came back on
after the Jess knock…wow…!

always fascinated by how little goals
were celebrated back then…it wasn’t till
the last one there was a hug…!


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Two biggest Attendances in Elimination Finals history...

Sept. 8, 2013 Carlton v Richmond 94,690
Sept. 8, 2023 Carlton v Sydney 92,026

Funny That!



Only 5 Elim. Finals topped 90,000 - Carlton have been in 3 of them!
(inc. v Essenscum* 2011, 4th biggest ever)


see previous page for Semi final records...

Updated 1st post in this thread for posterity's sake to include some Finals achievements.

Quite the list of pluses overall.

Of note, included the record climb of 12 ladder positions in one season: no team has ever done that after Rd. 7

All up, Well Done to the boys of 2023.

The info previously in this thread shows that Carlton flags come with 10 straight wins, so here's hoping next year they nail that one shut...

Oh, and Charlie Curnow becoming the first player to kick a goal in every one of 26 games in a season.

Well done mate!

Been a good year Ghost and we finished around where most of us expected. Also, been a struggle, but I expect next year, to do better, but here is where it will be the interesting.

We've now gone past 10000 days since our last premiership

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& we all live vicariously through that last premiership

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10,228 days to be exact.

Still waiting longer than any other AFL, NRL, Super Rugby or A-League team to play in a Grand Final.

Still been longer since Carlton spent even ONE week at the top of the ladder than for any other team.
(338 rounds - rd. 2, 2009)

and that makes this the 10th longest streak in VFL/AFL history at not being no. 1.

A big win over Richmond in rd. 1 would at least fix the latter.