My favoite St Kilda players are: ?

[shanegrambeau]

Who are the players you love the most?

For me, it is totally based on my timeline/age...

Nicky Winmar

If I had to choose a top ten...(I was born '63, my Dad a Queenslander and a Rugby League native)

10. Ditteritch
9. Jeff Sarau
8. Barry Breen (I always loved pros who kept going in lesser roles as they aged, he played full back)
7. Spud (not a talent, but a soldier and a captain)
6. Burke (grunt, fighto! fighto!)
5. A special place for all those travelmen I loved...Tim Pekin, Peckett, Frankie Coghlan and a dozen others
4. Stewie Loewe
3. Barks. R.I.P. (through the darkest s***)
2. Harvey ..
1. Winmar (Nicky was the ants pants..

[roskilde]

Winmar signed a personal autograph for me as a kid so he'll always have a special place in my heart and has to go at 1 as well -- difficult bloke not to love!

I swear I wrote out a longer reply then suddenly had to stop half way through because there's just too many Saints I've loved and want to ramble on about.

Love your inclusion of Peckett though he ALWAYS impressed me. He wasn't a star but he was one of the most consistent contributors I've seen and I loved the guy.

[Devilhead]

Just look at my avatar re: Winmar

Just look at high he has launched - guy was an absolute freak

[Special]

Just look at my avatar re: Winmar

Just look at high he has launched - guy was an absolute freak

You mean a wingman in an era when players who had set positions who could do a cameo as a forward and kick 9 goals?

Yep, Cuz was a freak.

[Special]

Who are the players you love the most?

For me, it is totally based on my timeline/age...

Nicky Winmar

If I had to choose a top ten...(I was born '63, my Dad a Queenslander and a Rugby League native)

10. Ditteritch
9. Jeff Sarau
8. Barry Breen (I always loved pros who kept going in lesser roles as they aged, he played full back)
7. Spud (not a talent, but a soldier and a captain)
6. Burke (grunt, fighto! fighto!)
5. A special place for all those travelmen I loved...Tim Pekin, Peckett, Frankie Coghlan and a dozen others
4. Stewie Loewe
3. Barks. R.I.P. (through the darkest s***)
2. Harvey ..
1. Winmar (Nicky was the ants pants..

How come our two greatest players, Plugger & Roo aren’t in your list?

Plugger has it all when we had nothing as a team.

[Ghost Like]

1. Plugger
2. Harves
3. Barks
4. Winmar
5. Roo
6. Lenny
7. Greg Burns
8. Robbie Muir
9. Burkey
10. Buckets

[saynta]

1. Barks
2. Big Carl.
3. Banger.
4. Mad Dog.
5. Lenny.
6. Doc.
7. Buckets.
8. Rooey.
9. Cuz.
10. Plugger

Sorry I left Kossi out .

[St Plugger]

1. Plugger.
2. Big Carl.
3. Banger.
4. Doc.
5. Cuz.
6. Burkey.
7. Buckets.
8. Rooey.
9. Barks.
10. Lenny.

Apologies to Neil Roberts, Verdon Howell, Spud and Mad Dog

Current favorite

Roma

[George27]

These are my favourite players - not necessarily the best, but the ones I hoped each week would do well, and who gave me the most satisfaction when they did. Some of them were champs, but in my eyes all of them had a certain je ne sais quoi

1. George Young
2. Tony Lockett
3, Robert Harvey
4. Darrell Baldock
5. Johnny Bonney- good player and ran the local milk bar!
6. Nicky Winmar
7. John McIntosh
8. Lenny Hayes
9. Kevin Roberts
10. Trevor Barker

[shanegrambeau]

Who are the players you love the most?

For me, it is totally based on my timeline/age...

Nicky Winmar

If I had to choose a top ten...(I was born '63, my Dad a Queenslander and a Rugby League native)

10. Ditteritch
9. Jeff Sarau
8. Barry Breen (I always loved pros who kept going in lesser roles as they aged, he played full back)
7. Spud (not a talent, but a soldier and a captain)
6. Burke (grunt, fighto! fighto!)
5. A special place for all those travelmen I loved...Tim Pekin, Peckett, Frankie Coghlan and a dozen others
4. Stewie Loewe
3. Barks. R.I.P. (through the darkest s***)
2. Harvey ..
1. Winmar (Nicky was the ants pants..

How come our two greatest players, Plugger & Roo aren’t in your list?

Plugger has it all when we had nothing as a team.

Yes Pllugger is enormous...maybe he is so large he is omnipotent..larger than the list and the world of lists itself....I came home and had a few.

Roo is still so recent...it seems messy still, in my mind..

Even Milney ...too .

[saynta]

Who are the players you love the most?

For me, it is totally based on my timeline/age...

Nicky Winmar

If I had to choose a top ten...(I was born '63, my Dad a Queenslander and a Rugby League native)

10. Ditteritch
9. Jeff Sarau
8. Barry Breen (I always loved pros who kept going in lesser roles as they aged, he played full back)
7. Spud (not a talent, but a soldier and a captain)
6. Burke (grunt, fighto! fighto!)
5. A special place for all those travelmen I loved...Tim Pekin, Peckett, Frankie Coghlan and a dozen others
4. Stewie Loewe
3. Barks. R.I.P. (through the darkest s***)
2. Harvey ..
1. Winmar (Nicky was the ants pants..

How come our two greatest players, Plugger & Roo aren’t in your list?

Plugger has it all when we had nothing as a team.

Two greatest players? Now that is a bit of a stretch. Plugger ,yes. But was Roo a greater player than Ian Stewart, Doc Baldock or Robert Harvey. I don't think so.

[saynta]

These are my favourite players - not necessarily the best, but the ones I hoped each week would do well, and who gave me the most satisfaction when they did. Some of them were champs, but in my eyes all of them had a certain je ne sais quoi

1. George Young
2. Tony Lockett
3, Robert Harvey
4. Darrell Baldock
5. Johnny Bonney- good player and ran the local milk bar!
6. Nicky Winmar
7. John McIntosh
8. Lenny Hayes
9. Kevin Roberts
10. Trevor Barker

John Bommey once played in the centre for Tasmania against Ian Stewart playing for Victoria and gave him a bath.

John McIntosh was once rated one of the best three footballers in Australia.

So, good picks. I knew Kevin Roberts, the best left foot kick of a dropkick I ever saw.

I am also a big fan of Daryl Griffith and Jimmy Guyatt. Eric Guy and Alan Morrow from that era.

[Ghost Like]

These are my favourite players - not necessarily the best, but the ones I hoped each week would do well, and who gave me the most satisfaction when they did. Some of them were champs, but in my eyes all of them had a certain je ne sais quoi

1. George Young
2. Tony Lockett
3, Robert Harvey
4. Darrell Baldock
5. Johnny Bonney- good player and ran the local milk bar!
6. Nicky Winmar
7. John McIntosh
8. Lenny Hayes
9. Kevin Roberts
10. Trevor Barker

George Young would make my team of favourite Saints.

[desertsaint]

Plugger
Harvey
Winmar
Milne
Maxy
Baker
Lenny
Barker
Roo
Kosi

Apologies to Blakey - such a bittersweet moment when three of my favs all retired in the same game. great way to go out though.

[BarryGrogan]

Mick Dwyer.
Rod Owen.

[saynta]

Mick Dwyer.
Rod Owen.

Rod Owens. What a waste of f****** talent. I went to America for a graduate diploma course in 1990 only to learn on my return he had been "swapped" to the Dees.

First played as a 16 year old and was regarded as a better prospect than Plugger . Poorly disciplined and injury prone.

[Joffa Burns]

1. Barker
2. Lockett
3. Harvey
4. Lenny
5. Loewe
6. Winmar
7. Burke
8. Cowboy
9. Davis
10. McIntosh

I also liked the WA boys Reynolds, Young & Duper.

[BarryGrogan]

Russell Jeffrey.
Dean Greig.
David Grant.

[avid]

These are the ones I went to watch to the point of complete obsession.
In order:

1 Nicky Winmar
2 Darrel Baldock
3 Robert Harvey
4 George Young
5 Robert Muir
6 Barry Lawrence
7 Aussie Jones
8 Nick dal Santo
9 Stewart Loewe

I'm not going to name number 10 -- coz I'd have to choose between Lenny Hayes, Trevor Barker, Plugger, Riewoldt, Cowboy Neale, Big Carl, Ross Smith, Burkey, .,,.. the list goes on and on
,,,, Val Perovic. I had a Val Perovic obsession for a while too.

Paul Callery, Lazar Vodovic, Matt Maguire, John McIntosh, Wow Jones.
There, That just about fills out my top favourite 22.

Except it's 23

[Impatient Sainter]

1. Stewart Loewe
2. Nick Riewoldt
3. Robert Harvey
4. Lenny Hayes
5. Tony Lockett
6. Nathan Burke
7. Nicky Winmar
8. Steven Milne
9. Fraser Gehrig
10. Peter Everitt

[StPeter]

I am still compiling my list but interesting that triple Brownlow medalist (2 at our club) Ian Stewart doesn't appear in any of the lists.

I know he went to another club but so did Plugger and Big Carl.

[Trev from the Bush]

I am still compiling my list but interesting that triple Brownlow medalist (2 at our club) Ian Stewart doesn't appear in any of the lists.

I know he went to another club but so did Plugger and Big Carl.

And, in my opinion, is still the best footballer to pull on the red, white and black.

[shanegrambeau]

I was a wee lad when Stewart left and so was shocked an indignant as a seven year old might be. (Richmond was the team I hated most) All I know is we got some guy who didn’t amount to much for it.

My list reflects my age, so Ditterich and Breen etc., were very much impressionable choices, soaking up the hubris of the grown ups around me. Matter of fact, I didn’t see them do very much. Carl always showed flashes when he came back with the headband, but not really a key player. Barry Breen was probably just a bit player too, like a Shane Wakelin, not dissing the Wakelins as I actually liked them a lot and believed we should not have let them go.

I also missed Barry Lawrence, Glen Elliot, Wayne Judson, Garry Sidebottom, George Young, So many ....

Could have chosen Cowboy...as he was actually more impactful at the end.

Players of the early 00s, I guess are so recent, I am still processing them in my hall of fame.

[fugazi]

Wizard, Harvs, Roo, Lenny, G-Train, Aussie Jones, Milne, Buckets, Plugger, BRAD HILL

[saynta]

I am still compiling my list but interesting that triple Brownlow medalist (2 at our club) Ian Stewart doesn't appear in any of the lists.

I know he went to another club but so did Plugger and Big Carl.

And, in my opinion, is still the best footballer to pull on the red, white and black.

Well, Stewart would rank in the top three, but was he anyone's favourite is an entirely different question/issue.