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The club is based at the Princes Park oval (until recently officially named Optus Oval in a sponsorship deal) in northern Carlton. The suburb combines the academic air of the nearby University Of Melbourne with a large quotient of immigrants from Southern Europe, and both groups still leave their mark on the Carlton supporter base. In 2004 , Carlton President Ian Collins began the process with Vice-President (now president) Graham Smorgon of reviewing Carlton's continued presence at Princes Park (now MC Labour Park). It was decided that six home games be played at Telstra Dome ( Docklands Stadium and five at the Melbourne Cricket Ground .) A "farewell" game was played at Princes Park on Saturday 21 May in 2005. The move is not altogether popular with club supporters. Despite this the club achieved record membership levels in 2005 . Training and social club facilities at Princes Park remain. There are proposals to redevelop the ground to make it into an elite training facility for the players. Carlton's fiercest rivals include the other members of the inner-suburban "big four" - , turned a 44-point half-time deficit into a 10-point victory. It is often said that Barassi invented modern football in his half-time instructions to the Carlton players, telling them to concentrate on retaining possession through short kicks and handpassing. This is a considerable exaggeration, as Barassi had been working on the new playing style throughout the 1970 season. The club underwent both off-field and on-field turmoil in 2002. The club finished last for the first time in its history, and mounting losses and accounting irregularities finally caught up with club president John Elliott . Elliott was then voted off the board by club members. The new administration discovered that the club had been making extra, secret payments to certain players, breaching the AFL Salary Cap . The club was heavily fined and stripped of top picks in the annual player draft, hampering attempts to rebuild the club's player group. In 2003 , Denis Pagan was appointed Coach in an attempt to turn the club around. The following year, Carlton won ten games, more than the previous two years combined. At the beginning of 2005, the turn around seemed a reality after their success in the pre-season Wizard Cup but the club failed to maintain its form for the home-and-away season. Finishing on the bottom of the ladder for just the second time in its proud history it became the second club to win the pre-season competition and the Wooden Spoon in the same year, with Footscray (now the Western Bulldogs ) having done so in 1967. The club became the last of the former VFL clubs to move away from its original home ground when it played its last match at Optus Oval against Melbourne in Round 9 of the 2005 season. Carlton had played at Princes Park for 108 years. CORPORATE Membership Base In 2005, the Carlton Football Club had a record membership of 33,534. Presidents
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INDIVIDUAL AWARDS Best And Fairest :See John Nicholls Medal Brownlow Medal winners
Note: Williams won another Brownlow Medal in 1986 playing with the Sydney Swans .'' Leigh Matthews Trophy winners
Note: Williams won another Leigh Matthews Trophy in 1985 with Geelong .'' Norm Smith Medal winners
Michael Tuck Medal
Coleman Medal winners
Mark Of The Year winners
CURRENT ROSTER ''As of December 27 , 2005 :'' TEAM OF THE CENTURY
Four emergencies were also named: Laurie Kerr , Bob Chitty , Horrie Clover and Rod McGregor . CLUB JUMPER The current jumper design consists of a navy blue backing, CFC monogram and AFL logo on front, and bold white numbers on back. The club's current sponsors are Optus and Dan Murphy's . For home games, the Optus sponsoring is displayed on the front, while Dan Murphy's sponsoring is beneath the player numbers on the back. The sponsors change positions when the club is playing away. In April 2006 , the club announced a "clash" jumper in accordance to the AFL 's request that each club have an alternative jumper to be worn against other clubs in similar design. The jumper, although not yet deemed official, consists of inverted colours from the regular home season outfit, complimented by blue stripes on the sides.
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