Lance Styles is a former Australian rules football

Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, also called football, Aussie rules or footy is a sport played between two teams of 22 players on either...

er who played for Carlton

Carlton Football Club

The Carlton Football Club is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria. The club competes in the Australian Football League, and was one of the eight founding members of that competition in 1897...

 in the Victorian Football League

Australian Football League

The Australian Football League is both the governing body and the major professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football...

 (VFL) during the 1970s.

Prior to joining Carlton, Styles was a ruckman at Scottsdale

Scottsdale Football Club

The Scottsdale Football Club is an Australian rules football club which competed in the Northern Tasmanian Football Association between 1948 and 1986. Scottsdale joined the Northern Tasmanian Football League in 1987...

 and represented Tasmania in the 1972 Perth Carnival

1972 Perth Carnival

The 1972 Perth Carnival was the 18th edition of the Australian National Football Carnival, an Australian rules football interstate competition....

. He shared his league debut with fellow Northern Tasmanian Football Association

Northern Tasmanian Football Association (1886 - 1986)

The Northern Tasmanian Football Association was an Australian rules football competition which ran from 1886 to 1986. In its time it was one of the three main leagues in Tasmania, with the Tasmanian Football League and North West Football Union representing the rest of the state...

 recruit and Carlton team-mate Craig Davis

Craig Davis (Australian rules footballer)

Craig Davis is a former Australian rules footballer who played with four clubs during his eleven seasons in the VFL in the 1970s and early 1980s...

 midway into the 1973 VFL season

1973 VFL season

Results and statistics for the Victorian Football League season of 1973.-Premiership season:In 1973, the VFL competition consisted of twelve teams of 18 on-the-field players each, plus two substitute players, known as the 19th man and the 20th man...

. However, it was one of only three times that Styles played VFL football and he instead spent most of his time in the reserves.