Semi Final, 1993
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Venue: Waverley Park | Date: Saturday September 11, 1993 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Result: Win by 18 points | Umpires: P.Carey & H.Kennedy | Crowd: 59,233 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Goalkickers: C.Bradley 5, S.Kernahan 3, B.Heaver 2, A.McKay 1, J.Madden 1, A.Gleeson 1. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Best: C.Bradley, A.McKay, S.Silvagni, G.Williams, J.Madden, A.Christou, M.Hogg. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Reports: Nil | Injuries: Nil | |||||||||||||||||||
Game Review
This was a tight, tense game. The Blues would play defensive football to shut down the dangerous Crow forward line, keeping Modra to 2, and always try to bring the ball to ground. 10 rushed behinds for the Crows underlines our defence’s ability to get it through the sticks from hard effort – 8.20 is a little misleading.
Adelaide would play smart with ruckman David Pittman taking Stephen Kernahan and limit his influence to 3 goals. With the Captain held, our goals had to come from other avenues, and up stood Craig Bradley with 5 for the day, 3 of them all on the run in the third quarter which effectively kept Carlton in the game. The Crows would kept coming, but Carlton tightened up, toughed it out and won through to the 1993 Grand Final. But everyone’s favourite memory would be "Harry’s run." Gangling ruckman Justin "Harry" Madden took a handball and galloped toward goal with a bounce, and a baulk around his own shadow before roosting a goal from 50 to bring the house down with an effort (that it was later said) was greater than his attempts at being Victorian Sports Minister!
Team
| B: | 7 Brett Ratten | 1 Stephen Silvagni | 39 Ang Christou |
| HB: | 5 Andrew McKay | 14 Michael Sexton | 13 Mil Hanna |
| C: | 33 Matthew Hogg | 2 Greg Williams | 9 Brett Sholl |
| HF: | 31 Tom Alvin | 11 Earl Spalding | 34 Ron De Iulio |
| F: | 20 Fraser Brown | 4 Stephen Kernahan (c) | 17 Brent Heaver |
| Ruck: | 44 Justin Madden | 21 Craig Bradley (vc) | 12 Adrian Gleeson |
| Interchange: | 25 Mark Athorn | 38 Rohan Welsh | |
| Coach: | David Parkin | ||
Milestones
Interesting Fact: This game was the last time for almost 16 years that a Carlton player in Number #38 would play in a win at senior level. Thereafter, a run of bad luck (and other factors) impacted on wearers of this guernsey - until a skinny kid from WA named Jeff Garlett arrived at Princes Park in 2009.
Gallery
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1993 2nd Semi Footy Record Cover. -
1993 2nd Semi - Match Preview. -
1993 2nd Semi - Match Preview Vs Adelaide Crows.Inside Football. -
1993 2nd Semi - Match Stats Vs Crows.Pic: Inside Football. -
1993 2nd Semi - Blue Boys. -
1993 2nd Semi - Bradley in Blue Heaven.Inside Football. -
1993 2nd Semi - Brent Heaver after snapping a goal. -
1993 2nd Semi - Can the Crows control Kerna???Inside Football. -
1993 2nd Semi - Justin Madden marks strongly.Pic: Inside Football. -
1993 2nd Semi - Justin Madden takes a strong chest mark.Pic: Inside Football. -
1993 2nd Semi - Mark Athorn marks strongly.Pic: Inside Football. -
1993 2nd Semi - Mark Riccutio and Ang Christou. -
1993 2nd Semi - Peter Dean rules himself out.Pic: Inside Football. -
1993 2nd Semi - Silvagni is about to spoil Modra.Pic: Inside Football. -
1993 2nd Semi - SOS & Christou were superb.Inside Football. -
1993 2nd Semi - Stephen Kernahan. -
1993 2nd Semi - Team List & Selections. -
1993 2nd Semi - Williams congratulates Bradley on his goal.Pic: Inside Football.
