Gregory Bentley (born 9 April 1987) is an Australian rules footballer who played for the

Port Adelaide Football Club Adelaide Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Alberton, South Australia. The club's senior men's team plays in the Australian Football League (AFL), where they are nicknamed the Power, whilst its reserv ...

and

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in the Australian Football League (AFL). Recruited from Rosebud and the

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, he was placed on the Port Adelaide's

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but was upgraded to the senior list during 2006. Bentley played his first AFL game on 12 August 2006 against the in Darwin and kicked his first AFL goal with his first kick. He was allocated to Sturt in the

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(SANFL) when not selected for Port Adelaide. Bentley was delisted by Port Adelaide at the end of 2008 after twenty-one games with the club. He was drafted as a rookie by the Carlton with its third selection (#37 overall) in the

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. He made his Carlton debut in Round 6, and played five games for the season, before being delisted at the end of the season. Bentley made a return to local football in 2010 returning to his old home club, Rosebud, in the

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, and in 2011 he was the joint-winner of the George Osborne Medal as the Nepean division best and fairest.

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