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Stephen
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Despite
such famous players as Ron Barrassi, Ken Hands, John Nicholls, Bruce Doull, Alex
Jesaulenko and Mike Fitzpatrick, Carlton chose its then present day Captain,
Stephen Kernahan, as its hero on both the 1996 Centenary Carlton Booklet ,
Maximum Card and Postcard> Kernahan has led the
Blues for 10 consecutive years since 1987 having started his career in 1986
after moving from South Australia. He has won two Premierships in 1987 and 1995
and has been Carltons leading goal kicker every year since 1986. He is the only
player to Captain a Premierships team, win his clubs Best and Fairest and be the
teams leading goal kicker all in the same year, 1987.
He has been a member of the All-Australian Team
on five occasions and captained South Australia's State of Origin Team.
His nickname was "Sticks". He played 251 games and kicked 738 goals, a club
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season and is now a part-time assistant coach to Wayne Britain.
The maximum card (shown below) is very similar to the postcard except
that the background is lighter and of course the postcard does not contain a
stamp or postmark. A cover with the
outline of the
postcard was also released. |
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| He was included on the selvedge of a
P stamp to celebrate the first meeting of the The Premiership Players Club at
the Inaugural reunion on the 7th March 2000. The stamp shows the 45c
celebration Stamp with the 1999/2000 hologram with the players face, club
colours and premiership year printed in the selvedge. 20 players were featured.
Shown below is a first day cover produced by Havilah Enterprises. |
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