SO who becomes Carlton senior player No.1200?

It’s the question that will be answered when the final team sheet is lodged 90 minutes prior to the 2019 season opener with Richmond on Thursday.

As many as six debutants - Alex Fasolo, Michael Gibbons, Mitch McGovern, Nic Newman, Will Setterfield and Sam Walsh – appear to be in line to follow Carlton’s most recent first-game player 1199 (Tom De Koning) into the Club’s record books, with the 1200th player since the opening round of the League’s 1897 foundation season determined by alphabetical order of surname.

Were all six to play, Fasolo would become Carlton’s 1200th senior player in 123 seasons, followed by Gibbons (1201), then McGovern (1202), Newman (1203), Setterfield (1204) and Walsh (1205).

Fasolo completed his first-hit out for Northern Blues in their drawn contest with Collingwood at Olympic Park last Sunday, while Gibbons, McGovern, Newman, Setterfield and Walsh all got through Monday’s JLT Community Series match with Collingwood at Morwell Recreation Reserve.

Of Carlton’s ton-up players so far, player No.800 Ken Jungwirth’s first senior match also doubled as his last.

Player No.1100 Bryce Gibbs managed the most senior appearances with 231 and is the youngest of the ton-up players to debut at senior level.

CARLTON'S TON-UP PLAYERS SINCE JIMMY AITKEN
Player No.PlayerPrevious clubDebutAge
1Jimmy AitkenSebastopolRound 1, 1897 v Fitzroy24 years, 358 days
100Dick HartCarlton ImperialsRound 1, 1901 v Fitzroy19 years, 124 days
200Jack HammondNorthcoteRound 7, 1906 v Essendon21 years, 258 days
300Albert ScaddenSouth BendigoRound 6, 1914 v Melbourne26 years, 177 days
400Harvey DunnCarlton DistrictRound 18. 1924 v Richmond25 years, 31 days
500Rod LeffanueSouth MelbourneRound 7, 1933 v St Kilda20 years, 158 days
600Adrian HearnFitzroyRound 1, 1945 v Melbourne25 years, 35 days
700Max EllisSouth BendigoRound 2, 1956 v Melbourne22 years, 252 days
800Ken JungwirthMelbourneRound 12, 1967 v Fitzroy20 years, 346 days
900Allan MontgomeryPerthRound 1, 1982 v Fitzroy23 years, 206 days
1000Matthew AllanNorth RingwoodRound 15, 1994 v Brisbane19 years, 126 days
1100Bryce GibbsGlenelgRound 1, 2007 v Richmond18 years, 17 days
1200??Round 1, 2019 v Richmond?