Carlton’s drought-breaking Premierships of 1947 and ’68 each came at Essendon’s expense. Ditto its 1999 Preliminary Final conquest. As for Grand Finals, the Blues can crow that they and they alone are the only ones to have earned Grand Final victories, given that Bombers’ Premierships of 1897 and 1924 were secured by way of the short-lived round robin formats.

Rewind to April 2007 – seven years ago this week – when Carlton completed its greatest ever comeback against you know who in what was fittingly the ‘Rivalry Round’. On that afternoon, Carlton reversed a 48-point half-time deficit to get up by three points at the MCG in a glorious throwback to the famous comeback against Collingwood on Grand Final day 1970.

With Brendan Fevola booting a lazy eight, and Heath Scotland and Ryan Houlihan the major possession gatherers, Carlton secured what then coach Denis Pagan declared the most satisfying home and away win of his coaching career period.

To read more about the comeback, click here.