Gregory Bentley (born 9 April 1987) is an

Australian rules football Australian football, also called Australian rules football or Aussie rules, or more simply football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of 18 players on an Australian rules football playing field, oval field, often a modified ...

er who played for the

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

and

Carlton Football Club The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based at Princes Park (stadium), Princes Park in Carlton North, Victoria, Carlton North, an inner suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. The c ...

in the

Australian Football League The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional sports, professional competition of Australian rules football. It was originally named the Victorian Football League (VFL) and was founded in 1896 as a breakaway competition ...

(AFL). Recruited from

Rosebud Rosebud may refer to: * Rose bud, the bud of a rose flower Arts * The name of Jerry Garcia's guitar from 1990 until his death in 1995 * In the 1941 film ''Citizen Kane'', the last words of Charles Foster Kane and an overall plot device * "Roseb ...

and the

Dandenong Stingrays The Dandenong Southern Stingrays are an Australian rules football team in the Talent League, the Victorian statewide under-18s competition. 1992 saw the birth of the Southern Stingrays, developed under the leadership of Steve Kennedy (Regiona ...

, he was placed on the Port Adelaide's

rookie list The rookie list is a means for Australian Football League (AFL) clubs to maintain additional players outside the 38-man primary or senior list. Category B rookie-listed players are not eligible to play in AFL home-and-away or finals matches unle ...

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

South Australian National Football League The South Australian National Football League, or SANFL ( or ''S-A-N-F-L''), is an Australian rules football league based in the Australian state of South Australia. It is also the state's sports governing body, governing body for the sport. ...

(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 2009 AFL rookie draft. 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

Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League The Mornington Peninsula Football Netball League (MPFNL), formerly known as the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League (MPNFL), is an Australian rules football competition, governed by the AFL South East. The MPFNL contains teams near the ...

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

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bentley, Greg Port Adelaide Football Club players Port Adelaide Football Club players (all competitions) Carlton Football Club players 1987 births Living people Sturt Football Club players Dandenong Stingrays players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) 21st-century Australian sportsmen