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A very difficult choice.

About to turn the magical 50, I have fond memories of many past Sturt heroes.


My late dad's favourite was No. 16, Brenton Adcock, closely followed by Bagshaw and Rick Davies.


Mine is: Jade Sheedy. A product of the Mildura Area, Jade has shown exceptional loyalty to the SFC and has been probably our most consistent player since his Debut 7 years agoi. I also have a very soft spot for the late Brendon Howard, a past Sturt Captain.

Brendon and Janice leased about 6 of my family's pacers and I'm thrilled to announce my last Mare, Oriental Swinger is in foal and about to have, hopefully a sound foal.


Go U Blues!

Surely the best player in the last 50 years for Sturt has to come from Bagshaw or Davies? Be honest sturtpeter Sheedy might be the best bloke in the world in your eyes but as a footballer there is no way he could be the best for Sturt in the last 50 years. I guess it depends the criteria you use though.

Michael Friedel

Does Len Fitzgerald sneak into the timeframe?

with out a doubt it would have to be sturtpeter, followed closely by every player that has pulled on the sturt guernsey,

Didn't SP start a thread on the main SANFL forum about "Your club's favourite player" in which he named Sheedy?

He clearly is stalking Sheedy with his over the top "admiration" (tempted to use other terminology) for him.

How many more topics can SP start in the off season that are just an excuse for him to declare his love for all things double blue!

Reakon he's got this in his record collection...

Rick Davies -- bloke you always feared the most as a Norwood supporter. Could do it all in the ruck and then at the end of his career started kicking bags of goals.
I enjoyed watching Motley the most, but Davies was the one who would beat you the most.

Sean Tasker?

In response: I love Sturt and my choice of favourite player is based on my choice.

Go Sturt!

Rick Davies for mine (as Max Hall would say).

Sadly I can't see any votes happening for Dudley Ah Chee or Clinton Giles or Gary Argus...

rd wrote:Rick Davies for mine (as Max Hall would say).

Sadly I can't see any votes happening for Dudley Ah Chee or Clinton Giles or Gary Argus...

How about Simon Sutterby or Mark O'keefe

Mike Delahunty & Roly Daw.

2 of our better interstate recruits - better than Wayne Johnston anyway!!

justin brooks #31

1/ - Bagshaw
2/ - Davies
3/ - Sandy Nelson.
There you go,someone out of leftfield.
He & Bagshaw are the only two to play in every Sturt premiership side from 1966 to 1976.
Had to be pretty decent to to that.

Sandy Nelson was a star and I've also been very impressed with Ben Nelson over the years - that family has given a lot to the Sturt Football Club.

Simon Dennis for mine......

I'm not old enough to remember Baggy play, although I did, but I can't seperate Rick Davies, Michael Graham and Peter Motley.

Noel Pettingill -- best kick of a football who ever played for Sturt (or Norwood, or anybody)

He just didn't get enough of it, but regularly would barrel the ball enormous distances or kick drop punts from 60 with the ease of Quinlan.

On a serious note, my favourite Sturt player of all time would be John Paynter, although an oppositon player i certainly enjoyed his precise skills. Unfortunate for him in a way that he missed Glenelg's success in the mid 80's but he'll certainly go down as a favourite son at Sturt.

The BEST kick I ever saw at Sturt..