Benalla, the birthplace of Carlton’s first premiership captain Jim Flynn, and the region in which the legendary Bob Chitty once played the part of Ned Kelly in a feature film, was the locale of choice for the Blues this week, as the senior players paid a visit to local Benalla primary schools as part of their annual community camp.
 
Rob Warnock, Kade Simpson, Andrew Carrazzo and Simon White were amongst the players who fielded a series of questions from attentive kids at Thoona Primary on anything and everything from what they eat to how much they train, to whether they actually barrack for Carlton and the old perennial - “How much do you get paid?”.
 
That proved the least of big Rob’s worries, given that the Carlton ruckman had to duck beneath the school’s advertising hording to actually enter the premises.
 
On top of the visits to the local schools, the Carlton players also put the kids through their paces in an eagerly-contested Superclinic at Benalla Oval.