Jimmy Buckley

Jimmy Buckley fronted up to Princes Park on the eve of the 1976 season. He was 16 when he made his debut, appropriately enough wearing the No.16 on his back, in a 1976 Queen’s Birthday Monday contest with Footscray at the Western Oval. 164 games and 15 seasons later, he found his place amongst Carlton’s all time greats. A three-time premiership player, one in the stellar Best & Fairest year of 1982, and a key member of the famed ‘Mosquito Fleet’. One of football’s most enduring and endearing characters, Buckley was as much at home at the Carlton Social Club as he was on the field, and in both locales he was the life of the party.