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Carter out to right the footy record, not rewrite it
The AFL has not shut the book on a decade-long campaign by former Geelong president Colin Carter to revise the game’s history in a way that would deliver the Cats an extra seven premierships and promote Carlton to the top of the flag table outright.
“For the past 100 years, since the mid-1920s, the AFL has celebrated 1897 as its starting year,” Carter said when launching the book in an MCC library packed with footy dignitaries, including AFL Commission chairman Richard Goyder. “That date is wrong. New research makes it very clear that our VFL founders, the VFL clubs and football media regarded 1870 as the first year.”
Launching the book, AFL chief executive Gil McLachlan said that the AFL had already gone as far as updating player records in the new season’s media guide. “Whether the competition records change is a discussion to be had,” he said, “but I acknowledge the contribution of the players, the clubs and administrators of the day on the development of our game.

Give 'em hell, Colin!