Coin_Toss
9 Aug 2006, 21:30
If you have Pay TV tune into 'HEADLINERS' at 9:00 PM EST tonight.
DJ Black @ White Blood
9 Aug 2006, 21:37
Phil Carman
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Phil Carman Personal Info
Birth September 4, 1950, Edenhope, Victoria
Recruited from Edenhope, Norwood (SANFL)
Playing Career¹
Debut 1975, Collingwood vs. , at
Team(s) Collingwood (1975-78)
66 Games, 142 Goals
Melbourne (1979)
11 Games, 23 Goals
Essendon (1980-81)
10 Games, 12 Goals
North Melbourne (1982)
13 Games, 27 Goals
¹ Statistics to end of 2005 season
Career Highlights
Collingwood best and fairest 1975
Collingwood Leading Goalkicker 1975-76
"Fabulous" Phil Carman (born September 4, 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played in the VFL/AFL.
Carman had a difficult time in the VFL, with clearances and submissions being delayed causing controversy. Collingwood had shown plenty of interest in Phil, but Carman didn't like the football lifestyle in Melbourne. He played several games for Norwood in the SANFL before the problems set him off the Magpies. He made an impression straight away, making his debut at age 24. He won the Copeland Trophy and also was the Leading Goalkicker, kicking 41 goals. He did however break a bone in his foot, which set him back for nine weeks, but the achievements were amazingly still there, and he finished 3 votes away from winning a Brownlow Medal in his debut year.
In the 1977 Second Semi Final win, he was suspended for two matches after striking Hawthorn's Michael Tuck, causing him to miss both the Grand Final and Grand Final Replay against North Melbourne. After the end of the 1978 season, he was given the flick by Collingwood and he joined Melbourne. He spent the one year there, before moving once again, to Essendon. He played 2 seasons, but was given a 20-week suspension for head-butting a boundary umpire, and also striking St Kilda's Gary Sidebottom. In his comeback match, he was reported again.
He moved to North Melbourne for his final years, in 1982. He then retired from football, at the age of 32, and played for regional clubs in Victoria and also in the ACT.
He then coached Sturt in the SANFL from 1995 - 2001. Instrumental in Sturt's resurgence as a power in the SANFL after a run of wooden spoons from 1989 - 1996. Sturt did not win a game in Carman's first year and he built the team up to win the 1998 Minor Premiership, only to fail to Port Adelaide in the Grand Final.
MagpieWayne
9 Aug 2006, 23:18
He cost us a flag so he can **** off.:thumbsd:
Coin_Toss
10 Aug 2006, 10:05
He cost us a flag so he can **** off.:thumbsd:
Easy with the langauage...
He will be remembered vividly as a footballer who can be a match winner on his day. I remember he kicked 11 goals down at Moorabbin, and we slammed on 11 unanswered goals in the final term to win by three goals after trailing clumsily at the main interval.
It is extraordinary how many people speak glowingly of him on the back of 1975, because he only played one year, in my opinion.
Cassius_Clay
10 Aug 2006, 13:49
He cost us a flag so he can **** off.:thumbsd:
Can someone ban this idiot from this board?
DJ Black @ White Blood
11 Aug 2006, 20:32
He cost us a flag so he can **** off.:thumbsd:
You Drop kick, how old are you. Phil Carman was beyond his time in fitness and footy skill. He didnt cost us a flag, he got us into a position were we could win a flag. Unless your my age and stood in the stands and watched the pure skill he had you have no right to comment. He was amazing for his short stint with Collingwood and yes he had a bad temper that had him out of the game more then in it. Put it this way if Taz kicks 10 goals in this year prelim final and gets us into the grand final but is reported and misses the grand final who cares. He doesnt cost us the flag he bloody well gets us into a position were we can win it.
Jumpin' Jimmy
11 Aug 2006, 20:51
An unbelievable player. Flawed genius. What about his time around the tan?
Enjoyed the first part of Headliners. Looking forward to next week.