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GRAEME WHITNALL

The son of champion country footballer Noel Whitnall, and the father of 2006 Carlton Best & Fairest Lance Whitnall, Graeme Whitnall seemed set for a long and productive career when he won Carlton’s Best First Year Player award in 1974. Graeme hailed from Talbot, near Maryborough in central Victoria – a small town with a proud football history. His father Noel played 205 games for the Talbot Hawks, the club that also produced Carlton Premiership player Paul Meldrum. While attending Maryborough Technical school, 17 year-old Whitnall was invited to train with Maryborough in the Ballarat Football League. He won a place in their senior side - without playing with their reserves - and by the age of 19, won their 1971 senior Best and Fairest Award. In 1972 he was a member of Maryborough's senior Premiership team. He came to Carlton in 1973 and, wearing guernsey number 47, won Carlton's Reserves' Most Improved Player Award. In 1974 Graeme moved to number 7 and played seven senior games to win Carlton's Senior Best First Year Player Award. His son Lance picked up the same award in 1997. Another son Shane Whitnall played a season of Reserves Grade football with the Blues in 1996.

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