History | The Carlton Football Club’s on-field fortunes have been seriously shaped by some of the Bendigo district’s greatest exponents of the great Australian game.

 THE Carlton Football Club’s on-field fortunes have, throughout the decades, been seriously shaped by some of the Bendigo district’s greatest exponents of the great Australian game – from as far back as Eaglehawk’s Fred Jinks Fred Jinks who featured in the old dark Navy Blues’ acclaimed premiership teams of 1906, ’07 and ’08 under Jack Worrall’s watch.

Fast forward 60 years to the early 1970s, when the likes of Sandhurst’s Geoff Southby and Trevor Keogh formed part of the Blues’ all-conquering Carlton premiership teams, and others such as Newlyn’s David McKay, Campbells Creek’s Peter Brown, Eaglehawk’s Rod Ashman and Des English, Kyneton’s Jim Buckley, Mitiamo’s Ken Sheldon, Castelmaine’s Warren Jones, South Bendigo’s Peter Dean, Sandhurst’s Michael Sexton, and Golden Square’s Peter McConville and Greg Williams followed suit.

Which is why the Spirit of Carlton saw fit to celebrate the seismic contributions to the Club of Bendigo’s finest, at a reunion of Carlton’s first, second and third-grade players of the region at Strathdale’s All Seasons Hotel, in support of former players facing various health and welfare issues.

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