St.Kilda Characters since 1970

[OldGeorgeYoung]

Russel Tweedale , good drinker early ';80's

Wasn't he nicknamed 'buckets' for a good reason

[stinger]

Probably deserve it if you wear your best suit to the footy!

...can't remember who it was...drake or huggins i think,,,,got him the sack,,,,but opened up a spot for plugger....

[HardSaint]

Surely - Plugger and Spud
larger than life - at both ends of the ground

[Dave McNamara]

Fol Carl Ditterich, Nicky Winmar, P66’s choice

Love your choice of rover OGY.

To your list I'd add Jimmy 'karate' O'Dea, (embarrassingly ) Mark Jackson, Wow Jones, Barry Lawrence and (embarrassingly ) Glenn Middlemiss.

Cowboy was the last player I saw kick out from full-back with a drop kick and scrubbed it 40m along the ground. The opposition kicked a point and he stubbornly tried it again with better success.

If that was circa 1978/79 at the Lakeside Oval, then I saw that one up close.

We were getting done. After kicking (scrubbing) the kick-in to the opposition, a clearly dirty Cowboy turned around, walked up to the goal post, and gave it an almighty kick. Set the thing swaying. Hilarious! South and Saints supporters all cracked up laffin'. (Probably get reported and fined for that sorta' thing today.)

I reckon that scrubba drop kick was out at Waverly.

I vaguely remember, maybe mid 70s Cowboy muffing a kick out from a point, and pretty sure it was out there. Maybe he muffed it more than once.

Must have been more than once then ST. But I do well remember the Lakeside Oval game, and a pissed off Cowboy turning around and booting the goal post (Grandstand end).