[5] In April 2014, club vice-president and businessman Mark LoGiudice was announced as Kernahan's successor, and he formally took over the role from 23 June.

The final practice match was not part of the NAB Challenge, and was played under premiership season rules.

The club's action was in response to an incident in which Bootsma sent explicit photographs over social media application Snapchat, which breached both Carlton's and the AFL's codes of conduct.

The players lied to the club about the incident, with Robinson claiming to have fractured his eye-socket in a boxing session at training.

As a consequence, the club fined Garlett $2,500 and refused to select him in the senior team for the following week – he had been dropped to the Northern Blues several weeks earlier, and was confirmed by the coaching staff as having shown enough form in the VFL to be brought back to the seniors immediately before the incident – and Robinson was fined $5,000, and did not play again for the season due to his injury.

[77] Robinson was cleared of wrongdoing by police, and Garlett pleated guilty to behaving in a riotous manner.

[78] The men on the other side of the attack pleaded guilty to affray and recklessly causing injury to Robinson, and were sentenced to 300 hours' community service.

The John Nicholls Medal, for the best and fairest player of the club, as well as several other awards, were presented on the night.

The following other awards were presented on John Nicholls Medal night:-[80] Jarrad Waite was Carlton's leading goalkicker for the season, with 29 goals.

The Northern Blues finished 11th out of 16 in the VFL with a record of 7–11, missing the final eight by ten premiership points and percentage.