Former Carlton captain and Australian Football Hall of Fame member Robert Walls has passed away at the age of 74.
Walls had battled with cancer and came to the decision to pass by voluntary assisted death at his home.
Born in Dunolly, Victoria, Walls started his VFL career with the Blues in 1967 and would spend a dozen years with the club, winning three premierships.
He would captain Carlton for two of those years before leaving for Fitzroy, who he spent three years with.
Walls was a two-time leading goalkicker for Carlton and would be named in the club's Team of the Century and Hall of Fame, earning Legend status with the latter.
He would coach the Blues to a premiership in 1987 in what was his second of four stints as an AFL senior coach.
After retiring as a player with Fitzroy in 1980, Walls stepped into the coaching role a year later and would guide the Victorian side through to the end of 1985.
He would then venture to Carlton, who he coached for four seasons after succeeding David Parkin, who took Walls' role at Fitzroy.
After his Blues departure in 1989, Walls was back into coaching two years later, stepping into the top job with the Brisbane Bears.
Walls coached the Bears in 109 games, his second-biggest stint behind his 115 games as coach of Fitzroy. He would move to Richmond at the end of his Fitzroy tenure and would coach the Tigers for 39 games across the 1996 and 1997 seasons.
After football, Walls took up multiple roles in the media, writing for The Age and as an analyst for Channel 7. He would also take up roles with Channel Ten, Fox Footy, 3AW and SEN.
Walls totalled 259 games as a player and 348 as a coach, having coached Victoria for one match in 1999.
