THE CARJI CLUB
The Carji Club is a not-for-profit entity which commenced in 2002 from humble but poignant beginnings. The history & development of our Club is described below. Essentially, the Carji Club now operates to provide like-minded AFL footy loving Members with a collegiate competition designed around the votes of each year's Brownlow Medal.

The culmination each year is the Carji Club Lunch, held in October, when the final selection results are formalised and the coveted Carji Club jacket & trophy are awarded. Special guest speakers, including Brownlow Medallists, provide footy insight & frivolity. The Carji Club Lunch is memorable for good quality food & beverages, with inclusions such as the exciting vote countdown, special awards, auction items, the infamous Carji Club jacket presentation and the newly anointed concept of the 'team of the year'.

In addition, the Carji Club aims to provide charitable donations to a charity of choice each year. In recent years the Club & Members has donated in excess of $140,000 to selected charities such as Reach Foundation, The Alannah and Madeline Foundation, Captain Courageous Foundation, SecondBite, Kids Plus Foundation, EJ Whitten Foundation, The Royal Children's Hospital, Australian Prostate Cancer Research, Water Saving Vietnam, Full Life Foundation, Hopscotch Heroes and FareShare.

The Carji Club presently has a membership base in excess of 300 Members, including many from regional Victoria & interstate and a couple from overseas. Attendance at the Carji Club Lunch is usually well above 95% of paid up Members.

CARJI CLUB COMMITTEE 2018

• President - Mike Boyle
• Vice-President - Phil Turner
• Secretary - Jonathan Major
• Treasurer - Jeff Hallyburton
• Committee - Jack Batchelor, Peter Day, Nick Kerr, Dean Martinelli, Phil Rees, Debbie Skewes, Rod Smith, Mark Whitty

COMMITTEE MEETING DATES 2018

• TBA

HISTORY
In 2002 three friends (Tim McNeil, Dean Martinelli and Chris Reardon) started a 'competition' (on the back of a paper serviette) to see who could select the highest Brownlow Medal vote getters from each AFL team. The person with the highest total Brownlow votes received a free lunch courtesy of the other two participants.

Having enjoyed the format, the three friends deemed it appropriate to each invite one friend to participate in the next year's 'competition' but with two key stipulations: the first, that invitees must follow a football club and be passionate about football; and invitees must not be from the same company/organisation which the founding members represented.

It was the second stipulation, which is now more a guideline than a rule that helped to quickly produce a membership base covering a diverse range of organisation types, sizes and locations.

Soon after its formation, the competition became affectionately known as "The Big Brownlow Comp" and thanks to the 'invite a friend' rule membership progressively grew to 24. Each year as the number of competition participants grew, so too did the 'creative' ideas for improving the concept, often brainstormed by vocal & imbibed attendees at the Lunch.

At the 2005 Lunch it was suggested and agreed that the competition should be named after the very first Brownlow Medal winner "Carji" Greeves – hence the current name of The Carji Club was adopted. The not-for-profit organisation was incorporated, the inaugural Carji Club Committee was formed and the necessary structures & foundation put in place to allow The Carji Club to more effectively grow exponentially in the future.

The values of the Carji Club and the Carji Club Lunch are now a recognised part of the AFL footy calendar. The Members of Carji Club are proud to be associated with a truly unique organisation, founded on simple principles of footy fellowship, frivolity & charitable outcomes.

TRIBUTE TO CARJI GREEVES
Edward "Carji" Greeves, Jr. (1 November 1903 - 15 April 1963) was the winner of the inaugural Brownlow Medal in 1924. Greeves played with the Geelong Football Club from 1923-31 and wore jumper number 20.

He was given the nickname as a baby by a friend of the family, the New South Wales golfer Michael Scott, after he had seen Carjillo, the Rajah of Bong, a popular play at the time.

Greeves was honoured with having the Geelong Football Club's Best and Fairest award named after him, the Carji Greeves Medal. In 1996 'Carji' Greeves was inducted into the Australian Football Hall of Fame. Greeves represented Victoria seven times.

We are honoured to have the "Carji" name for our esteemed Club and grateful to the Greeves family for their permission & support. We also acknowledge the Geelong Football Club via their historian Russell Stephens for their ongoing interest & support on the historical significance of the great 'Carji' Greeves.

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