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{{short description|Australian rules footballer, born 1963}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=May 2011}}
{{Infobox AFL biography
| name = Stephen Kernahan
| image = 
| fullname = Stephen Scott Kernahan
| nickname = Sticks, Corey
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|9|1|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]]
| death_date = 
| death_place = 
| originalteam = [[Glenelg Tigers|Glenelg]] ([[SANFL]])
| height = 196&nbsp;cm<!--automatic conversion-->
| weight = 102&nbsp;kg<!--automatic conversion-->
| position = [[Centre half-forward]], [[Ruckman (Australian rules football)|Ruckman]]
| statsend = 1997
| years1 = 1981–1985
| club1 = {{SANFL Gle}}
| games_goals1 = 116 (266) <ref> These totals refer to premiership matches (home-and-away and finals matches) only. </ref>
| years2 = 1986–1997
| club2 = {{AFL Car}}
| games_goals2 = 251 (738)
| sooteam1 = [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]]
| sooyears1 = 1983–1996
| soogames_goals1 = 16 (66)
| games_goalstotal = 367 (1004)
| careerhighlights = '''VFL/AFL'''
*2× [[List of VFL/AFL premiers|AFL Premiership player]]: ([[1987 VFL Grand Final|1987]], [[1995 AFL Grand Final|1995]])
*2× [[All-Australian team]]: (1992, 1994)
*3× [[John Nicholls Medal|Robert Reynolds Trophy]]: (1987, 1989, 1992)
*11× [[List of Carlton Football Club leading goalkickers|Carlton leading goalkicker]]: (1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996)
* [[List of Carlton Football Club captains|Carlton captain]]: (1987–1997)
* [[Carlton Football Club#Carlton Team of the Century|Carlton Team of the Century]] – <small>[[Centre half-forward|Centre Half-Forward]]</small>, (Captain)
* [[Carlton Football Club#Hall of Fame|Carlton Hall of Fame]], Legend Status

'''SANFL'''
* [[List of SANFL premiers|SANFL Premiership player]]: ([[1985 SANFL Grand Final|1985]])
*3× Glenelg Best & Fairest: (1983, 1984, 1985)
*2× Glenelg Leading Goalkicker: (1983, 1984)
* [[Jack Oatey Medal]]: (1985)
* [[South Australian Football Hall of Fame]], inducted 2002
* Glenelg Hall of Fame

'''Representative'''
*2× [[Interstate matches in Australian rules football#Australian National Football Carnival|National Football Carnival]] Championship: <Br>[[1988 Adelaide Bicentennial Carnival|1988]], [[1993 State of Origin Championships (Australian rules football)|1993]]
*3× [[All-Australian team]]: (1985, 1986, 1988)
*2× [[Fos Williams Medal]]: (1984, 1988)

'''Overall'''
* [[Australian Football Hall of Fame]], inducted 2001
}}

'''Stephen Scott Kernahan''' (born 1 September 1963) is a former [[Australian rules football]]er who played for the [[Carlton Football Club]] in the [[Australian Football League]] (AFL) and for the [[Glenelg Football Club]] in the [[South Australian National Football League]] (SANFL). He also played 16 [[Interstate matches in Australian rules football#State of origin|State of Origin]] games for [[South Australian state football team|South Australia]] and gained selection as an [[All-Australian Team|All-Australian]] five times (1983, 1986, 1988, 1992 and 1994). He later served for six years as president of the Carlton Football Club.

Nicknamed ''Sticks'',<ref name="Pratt">{{cite news|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/the-day-dick-said-hed-be-president/story-0-1225704698168|title=The day Dick Pratt said he'd be Carlton president |last=Robinson|first=Mark|date=29 April 2009|work=[[Herald Sun]]|publisher=[[News Corporation]]|access-date=24 December 2009}}</ref> Kernahan was the captain of [[Carlton Football Club#Carlton Team of the Century|Carlton's Team of the Century]] and holds the club goalkicking record of 738 and, until eclipsed by [[Joel Selwood]] in 2022, held the AFL record for the most games as a club captain.

==Early life==
Stephen Kernahan is the son of South Australian football legend and Glenelg club champion and administrator [[Harry Kernahan]], and the older brother of former Glenelg and Carlton player [[David Kernahan]]. Kernahan attended Paringa Park Primary School in North Brighton<ref>Phillips, Stephen, '[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkJ77mwssL4 Captain Kernahan]',1997 Stephen Kernahan career retrospective</ref> and [[Brighton Secondary School|Brighton High School]].<ref>2005 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c4J%20p3n87w interview] with [[Robert Walls]]</ref> At a junior level, he represented South Australia in cricket and surf life-saving in addition to football. He became a licensed stockbroker and worked at the stock exchanges in Adelaide and then Melbourne throughout his football career.

His affiliation with Glenelg began very young; he developed a lifelong friendship with [[Chris McDermott]] when they played together in the under-10s team.

==Playing career==

===Glenelg===
He began his senior career with Glenelg in the [[South Australian National Football League]] (SANFL) at age 17 in 1981, and played 116 games, kicking 266 goals (also playing 20 games and kicking 24 goals in night series/pre-season competition), and also won three straight best and fairest awards.

Under the coaching of 1961 [[List of Magarey Medallists|Magarey Medallist]] [[John Halbert]], Kernahan was a member of Glenelg's losing Grand Final teams to [[Port Adelaide Magpies|Port Adelaide]] in 1981 and [[Norwood Redlegs|Norwood]] in 1982.

In 1983, he topped the voting in the [[Magarey Medal]] with a then-record 44 votes, made all the more remarkable as Glenelg only won 9 of 22 games for the season (after losing their first 8 games), half the number won by premiers [[West Adelaide Bloods|West Adelaide]]. Unfortunately, he was ineligible due to being reported for an incident with [[Norwood Redlegs|Norwood's]] [[Garry McIntosh]] in Round 4 and was suspended for Round 5. Due to the rules of the SANFL, any player who receives a suspension during a season is ineligible to win the Medal and the award was won by [[North Adelaide Roosters|North Adelaide's]] [[Tony Antrobus]] who polled 35 votes. Kernahan was also twice leading goal kicker for The Bays, in 1983 and 1984 and in 1985 he was awarded the [[Jack Oatey Medal]] as best on the ground in the club's premiership win over [[North Adelaide Roosters|North Adelaide]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/k.htm#Stephen%20Kernahan%20(Glenelg%20&%20Carlton)|title=Fullpointsfooty.net}}</ref>

In his days with Glenelg, Kernahan was mostly used as a [[Ruckman (Australian rules football position)|ruckman]]/forward due to his 6'5" (196&nbsp;cm) height and his strong marking and leading ability. He played mostly at [[full-forward]] and was the Tigers' second ruckman behind Bays legend [[Peter Carey (Australian rules footballer)|Peter Carey]]. This would lead him to be Glenelg's leading goalkicker in both 1983 and 1984. His height and his slight build led to the nickname "Sticks".

Kernahan was signed by Carlton in the [[Victorian Football League]] (VFL) in 1981, but he didn't move to the club until 1986 due to his ambition to play in a premiership with his best mates at Glenelg.<ref name="insidecarlton">{{citation|title=King Kerna's reign ends|page=17|magazine=Inside Carlton - 1997 Yearbook|year=1997|author=Tony de Bolfo}}</ref> The anticipation of Kernahan's arrival was heightened when he played [[Interstate matches in Australian rules football#State of origin|State of Origin]] games for [[South Australia Australian rules football team|South Australia]] and his outstanding play, usually at full-forward, saw those in Victoria take notice. In 1983, Kernahan was a member of the South Australian side which defeated Victoria in Adelaide for the first time in 18 years. He kicked 10 goals in a losing side against [[Victoria Australian rules football team|Victoria]] at [[Football Park]] in Adelaide in 1984, winning the [[Fos Williams Medal]] as South Australia's player of the match. He was a mainstay of the South Australian state of origin teams throughout his careers at Glenelg and Carlton, playing a total of sixteen games for the Croweaters, winning a second Fos Williams Medal in 1988, and captaining the team in 1996.<ref name="sanflhof">{{cite web|url=http://www.sanfl.com.au/hall_of_fame/stephen_s_kernahan/|title=Stephen S Kernahan|publisher=South Australian National Football League|access-date=24 January 2015}}</ref>

===Carlton===
After winning the 1985 premiership with Glenelg, Kernahan finally moved to [[Melbourne]] to join Carlton in [[1986 VFL season|1986]], the same year as two other quality South Australian players, [[Craig Bradley]] from [[Port Adelaide Football Club|Port Adelaide]] and [[Peter Motley]] from [[Sturt Football Club|Sturt]], joined the Blues, and the three were immediately influential for the Blues. Playing primarily at centre half-forward—and sometimes at full-forward—throughout his career, Kernahan kicked 62 goals in his first season at Carlton, to be the club's leading goalkicker for the first of a club record eleven consecutive occasions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blueseum.org/Stephen+Kernahan|title=Stephen Kernahan|access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://australianfootball.com/players/player/Stephen+Kernahan/12115|title=STEPHEN KERNAHAN|access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref>

In only his second season at the club, Kernahan was made club captain. He became widely regarded for his leadership as captain, with former club chief executive [[Ian Collins (footballer)|Ian Collins]] describing him as "on and off the field, the greatest leader [Carlton] has ever had".<ref name="insidecarlton" /> He held the captaincy for eleven years until his retirement, and his 226 games as captain is a VFL/AFL record for any club.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.carltonfc.com.au/board/tabid/7935/default.aspx|title=Board|publisher=Carlton Football Club|access-date=12 November 2011}}</ref> In the final round of the 1987 season, he famously kicked a goal [[after-the-siren kicks in Australian rules football|after the final siren]] to defeat North Melbourne and clinch the minor premiership and the bye in the first week of the finals, and Carlton went on from that position to win the [[1987 VFL Grand Final|Grand Final]] against {{AFL Haw}} and its 15th premiership. Kernahan won his first of three club best and fairest awards that season.<ref name="insidecarlton" /><ref>{{Citation |title=On This Day - Sticks After the Siren |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HcbuxA2zu0 |access-date=2023-07-02 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blueseum.org/Stephen+Kernahan|title=Stephen Kernahan|access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref>
Prior to the 1991 season, Kernahan was offered a large sum of money to join the newly established [[Adelaide Crows]], which would be coached by his former premiership coach [[Graham Cornes]], but Kernahan remained loyal to Carlton.

In Round 2, 1993, against Essendon, Kernahan had another shot after the siren to win the game. As the scores were level, he only needed a behind or better to win the game. After taking a strong pack mark, Kernahan heard the siren go, steadied himself, and took two steps inside the 50-metre arc from about a 20-degree angle on the right forward flank. Unfortunately for Kernahan, he shanked the kick to the right, infamously kicking the ball out of bounds on the full, resulting in a drawn game.<ref>{{Citation |title=Each AFL Teams Last Miss After the Siren |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHW5LFUjIUE |access-date=2023-07-02 |language=en}}</ref> Kernahan said of the moment a decade on, "I was a good kick when I was young. I could kick goals, no problem," Kernahan said. "But by '93, I was a worse kick than in the '80s. I'd had groins, my kicking had gone off.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2002-05-31 |title=Win some, lose some |url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/win-some-lose-some-20020531-gdu9e6.html |access-date=2023-07-02 |website=The Age |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blueseum.org/Stephen+Kernahan|title=Stephen Kernahan|access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref> Kerhahan made amends for his miss the round after, kicking a late-game winner against Hawthorn.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=2305&v=9xTZjWXVX7U&feature=youtu.be |title=AFL – The '90s: The Decade That Delivered |date=2016-10-18 |last=extraverse |access-date=2024-10-02 |via=YouTube}}</ref>

Kernahan won another two club best and fairest awards in [[1989 VFL season|1989]] and [[1992 AFL season|1992]], and he continued to win the club goalkicking annually, with his highest total of 83 goals coming in 1992. He was selected in the [[All-Australian team]] in 1992 and 1994. He led Carlton to the [[1993 AFL Grand Final|1993 Grand Final]] against {{AFL Ess}}, which the club lost badly despite Kernahan's seven goals. Two years later, Kernahan led the club to the 1995 premiership, kicking five goals in the [[1995 AFL Grand Final|Grand Final]] against {{AFL Gee}}.<ref name="insidecarlton" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blueseum.org/Stephen+Kernahan|title=Stephen Kernahan|access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref>

Kernahan retired at the end of the [[1997 AFL season|1997 season]]. In that year, he passed [[Harry Vallence]] to become the leading career goalkicker in Carlton Football Club history; he finished his VFL/AFL career with 738 goals,<ref name="insidecarlton" /> which remains a Carlton record as of 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AFL Tables - All Time Player List - Carlton |url=https://afltables.com/afl/stats/alltime/carlton.html |access-date=2023-07-02 |website=afltables.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blueseum.org/Stephen+Kernahan|title=Stephen Kernahan|access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref>

Overall, Kernahan played a total of 367 premiership games for Glenelg and Carlton, and kicked 1004 goals, which is the 13th most in elite Australian rules football.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blueseum.org/Stephen+Kernahan|title=Stephen Kernahan|access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref>

Kernahan also played 16 State of Origin matches for South Australia, kicking 66 goals, and a total of 39 pre-season/night series matches, 20 for Glenelg and 19 for Carlton (these are counted as senior by the SANFL but not by the VFL/AFL), kicking 63 goals. If these are included, Kernahan played 422 career senior games and kicked a career senior total of 1,133 goals, which is the eighth most in elite Australian rules football.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blueseum.org/Stephen+Kernahan|title=Stephen Kernahan|access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref>

Kernahan also played three [[International rules football|International Rules]] matches for Australia in 1984 and scored one goal, which are counted as senior by the VFL/AFL, who list Kernahan's total as 406 career senior games and 1,095 career goals, excluding his pre-season/night series matches for Carlton: if these are included here, this gives Kernahan an overall total of 425 career senior games and 1,134 goals.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.blueseum.org/Stephen+Kernahan|title=Stephen Kernahan|access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref>

==Honours==
He was selected as an [[All-Australian Team|All-Australian]] five times: three times when the team was selected based on interstate carnival performances (1985, 1986 and 1988) and twice when the team was selected based on AFL performances (1992 and 1994). He is a Carlton and AFL life member, and he has been inducted into the [[Australian Football Hall of Fame]] and the South Australian Football Hall of Fame.

Kernahan is regarded as one of the greatest players in Carlton Football Club history. He was centre half-forward and captain of the club's Team of the Century, he was made a Legend of the Carlton Football Club Hall of Fame in 1997,<ref>{{citation|page=79|title=Inside Carlton|year=2012|publisher=Carlton Football Club|publication-place=Carlton North, Victoria|editor-first=Ian|editor-last=Coutts}}</ref> and as part of the club's sesquicentennial celebrations in 2014 he was named the second-greatest player in the club's history, behind only [[John Nicholls (footballer)|John Nicholls]].<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Herald Sun|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|url=http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/john-nicholls-named-the-greatest-blue-in-150year-history-ahead-of-stephen-kernahan-bruce-doull-alex-jesaulenko-stephen-silvagni/story-fni5f5nx-1226954641123|date=14 June 2014|access-date=15 June 2014|title=John Nicholls named the greatest Blue in 150-year history ahead of Stephen Kernahan, Bruce Doull, Alex Jesaulenko & Stephen Silvagni|author=Glenn McFarlane}}</ref>

==Sports administration career==
===Carlton Football Club president=== 
After retiring as a player, Kernahan joined the Carlton Football Club's [[Board of Directors|board of directors]], and in 2006 became a vice-president of the club.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/kernahan-a-guy-who-sticks-to-his-guns-20120705-21k4x.html|title=Kernahan: a guy who sticks to his guns|date=6 July 2012|access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref> Following [[Graham Smorgon]]'s failure to be re-elected at the 2007 Board Elections, Kernahan was made interim president, acquiring the services of and relinquishing the position to [[Richard Pratt (Australian businessman)|Richard Pratt]] within days.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/kernahan-a-guy-who-sticks-to-his-guns-20120705-21k4x.html|title=Kernahan: a guy who sticks to his guns|date=6 July 2012|access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref>  On 20 June 2008, he again took the role of president, this time permanently, after Pratt stood aside to fight charges of giving false and misleading evidence to an [[Australian Competition & Consumer Commission]].<ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/pratt-stands-aside-as-carlton-chief/2008/06/20/1213770889110.html Pratt stands aside as Carlton chief] ''[[Sydney Morning Herald]]'', 20 June 2008</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/kernahan-a-guy-who-sticks-to-his-guns-20120705-21k4x.html|title=Kernahan: a guy who sticks to his guns|date=6 July 2012|access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref>  Kernahan served as president for six years before stepping aside in June 2014. Kernahan then handed over his position as president of the club to Mark LoGiudice.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Age]]|title=New Blues president Mark LoGiudice wants a grand era of success|date=26 April 2014|access-date=26 April 2014|author=Jon Pierik|publication-place=Melbourne, VIC|url=http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/new-blues-president-mark-logiudice-wants-a-grand-era-of-success-20140426-zr00x.html}}</ref>

==Publishing career==
Kernahan also had a post-football career in publishing in Melbourne.


==Statistics==
: <ref>{{cite web|url=https://afltables.com/afl/stats/players/S/Stephen_Kernahan.html|title=Stephen Kernahan|work=AFL Tables|access-date=27 October 2019}}</ref>

{{AFL player statistics legend/ruckman}}
{{AFL player statistics start/ruck with votes}}
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1986 VFL season|1986]]
|{{AFL Car}}
| 4 || 25 || 62 || 27 || 233 || 95 || 328 || 157 || {{n/a}} || 60 || 2.5 || 1.1 || 9.3 || 3.8 || 13.1 || 6.3 || {{n/a}} || 2.4 || 1
|- 
|style="text-align:center;background:#afe6ba;"|[[1987 AFL season|1987]]†
|{{AFL Car}}
| 4 || 24 || 73 || 50 || 275 || 89 || 364 || 177 || 41 || 33 || 3.0 || 2.1 || 11.5 || 3.7 || 15.2 || 7.4 || 1.7 || 1.4 || 14
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1988 VFL season|1988]]
|{{AFL Car}}
| 4 || 23 || 54 || 36 || 288 || 71 || 359 || 161 || 28 || 30 || 2.3 || 1.6 || 12.5 || 3.1 || 15.6 || 7.0 || 1.2 || 1.3 || 3
|- 
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1989 VFL season|1989]]
|{{AFL Car}}
| 4 || 22 || 59 || 40 || 298 || 64 || 362 || 180 || 28 || 39 || 2.7 || 1.8 || 13.5 || 2.9 || 16.5 || 8.2 || 1.3 || 1.8 || 9
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1990 AFL season|1990]]
|{{AFL Car}}
| 4 || 22 || 69 || 42 || 254 || 58 || 312 || 165 || 36 || 42 || 3.1 || 1.9 || 11.5 || 2.6 || 14.2 || 7.5 || 1.6 || 1.9 || 4
|- 
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1991 AFL season|1991]]
|{{AFL Car}}
| 4 || 20 || 46 || 36 || 234 || 57 || 291 || 149 || 36 || 36 || 2.3 || 1.8 || 11.7 || 2.9 || 14.6 || 7.5 || 1.8 || 1.8 || 6
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1992 AFL season|1992]]
|{{AFL Car}}
| 4 || 22 || 83 || 50 || 278 || 74 || 352 || 165 || 20 || 76 || 3.8 || 2.3 || 12.6 || 3.4 || 16.0 || 7.5 || 0.9 || 3.5 || 8
|- 
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1993 AFL season|1993]]
|{{AFL Car}}
| 4 || 18 || 68 || 42 || 216 || 57 || 273 || 140 || 23 || 30 || 3.8 || 2.3 || 12.0 || 3.2 || 15.2 || 7.8 || 1.3 || 1.7 || 8
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1994 AFL season|1994]]
|{{AFL Car}}
| 4 || 23 || 82 || 51 || 237 || 96 || 333 || 160 || 24 || 49 || 3.6 || 2.2 || 10.3 || 4.2 || 14.5 || 7.0 || 1.0 || 2.1 || 5
|- 
|style="text-align:center;background:#afe6ba;"|[[1995 AFL season|1995]]†
|{{AFL Car}}
| 4 || 17 || 63 || 40 || 172 || 42 || 214 || 121 || 18 || 16 || 3.7 || 2.4 || 10.1 || 2.5 || 12.6 || 7.1 || 1.1 || 0.9 || 8
|- style="background-color: #EAEAEA"
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1996 AFL season|1996]]
|{{AFL Car}}
| 4 || 19 || 56 || 34 || 172 || 36 || 208 || 108 || 13 || 15 || 2.9 || 1.8 || 9.0 || 1.9 || 10.9 || 5.7 || 0.7 || 0.8 || 1
|- 
! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | [[1997 AFL season|1997]]
|{{AFL Car}}
| 4 || 16 || 23 || 23 || 146 || 36 || 182 || 76 || 17 || 20 || 1.4 || 1.4 || 9.1 || 2.3 || 11.4 || 4.8 || 1.1 || 1.3 || 0
|- class="sortbottom"
! colspan=3| Career
! 251
! 738
! 471
! 2803
! 775
! 3578
! 1759
! 284
! 446
! 2.9
! 1.9
! 11.2
! 3.1
! 14.3
! 7.0
! 1.3
! 1.8
! 67
|}


==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{AFL Tables}}
* {{AustralianFootball}}
* [http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Stephen+Kernahan Stephen Kernahan Profile in Blueseum]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060820134410/http://www.sanfl.com.au/default.aspx?s=historydisplay&aid=98180 SANFL Hall of Fame]

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{{1988 All-Australian team}}
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