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?

Kouta went from the low of having his first kick being smothered to the high of chasing up the smothered kick, winning back the ball and snapping a goal.

Dean Rice - Carlton debut Round 8, 1994.

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With 12 seconds to go in the 1947 Grand Final Fred Stafford snaps a left footed goal. Carlton beat Essendon* by one point..

Number 17 in Carlton's 25 Greatest Moments.

Bower giving away a 50 metre penalty from his first touch of the ball...

Mitch Robinson had a pretty high debut, slotting 3 (including one brilliant one) in the smashing of the Tiges

I think AJ had a pretty good debut in tagging roles especially.

Yep, and still didnt get the Rising Star nomination.

Carrots debut at PP, nullified Aaron Davey

Andy Mackay in the loss to Fitzroy, Rd 1 1993. Had a shocker.

Matt Clape Carlton debut, 3 Brownlow votes & 3 goals against Coll, Rd 1 1995

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Good thread.

Round 1 1992 v BnB's at the Gabba

Paul McCormack got suspended for 2 weeks for poleaxing Matthew Campbell.

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Think that was De Iulio's debut aswell.

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John Coleman. 12 goals.

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

Warren Ralph, 9 Goals on debut against North Melbourne, round 1 1984.

Yeah, but he's scum (or is it filth? ).

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He's scum, filth's the other mob!

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Mick McGuane and Glenn Hawker had forgettable debuts, simply because they should never have been given a Navy Blue jumper in the first place.

Peter Bosustow kicked a few on debut didn't he?

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re: McGuane - was that the one where he'd had the injections and half the kicks rolled off his leg...or was that all of his games?

Kicked 2, but was named in the best

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A long time ago but i remember watching Vinnie Waite kick 2 goals with his first 2 kicks in Senior footy vs Melbourne at the MCG back i think in 1966.

I also was there for the Warren Ralph game however Andrew Walkers first game was the best debut game that i can recall from any Carlton player.