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On the 26th of October the 2008 fixture came out. St. Kilda play as follows;

March 22 - Sydney

March 29 - Carlton

April 04 - Western Bulldogs

April 12 - Geelong

April 18 - Essendon

April 26 - Port Adelaide

May 3 - Richmond

May 16 - Colllingwood

May 25 - Brisbane Lions

June 1 - Melbourne

June 8 - Western Bulldogs

June 14 -  Sydney

June 20 - Fremantle

June 28 - Kangaroos

July 11 - Carlton

July 19 - Hawthorn

July  26 - West Coast

August 3 -  Port Adelaide

August 9 - Collingwood

August 17 - Freomantle

August 24 - Adelaide

August 31 - Essendon

This year we had a couple of retirees after the season end. These are; Aaron Hamill and Brett Voss.

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This post is about Xavier Clarke.

Facts and Stats:

Height: 181

Weight: 78kg

D/O/B: 28-9-1983

Recruited from: St.Mary (NT)

Career Matches: 97

Career Goals: 33

Photo and facts from; St. Kilda’s Website

This post is about Aaron Hamill. He didn’t play this year due to a serious knee injury.

Facts and Stats:

Height: 184

Weight: 94

D/O/B: 20-08-1977

Recruited from: Tuggeranong (ACT)/Carlton

Career Games: 190

Career Goals: 239

Facts and photo from; St. Kilda’s Website

This post is about Jason Gram who wears number 1.

Facts and Stats

Height: 186cm

Weight: 84kg

D/O/B: 27-04-1984

Recruited from: Sale/Gippsland Under 18/Brisbane

Career Games: 48

Career Goals: 10

He came 2nd in the 2006 best and fairest.

Photo

Photo and facts found at; St. Kilda’s Website

Saturday saw the retirements of 2 amazing football players.

Fraser Gehrig told the St. Kilda players of his retirement before the game and Andrew Thompson around a month ago it was a sad day for many. On lucky girl had an exciting day getting Fraser Gehrig’s playing jumper.

Picture from http://www.saints.com.au/

Here are some fast facts from Fraser Gehrig’s career:

Fast Facts

Jumper No: 9

Height: 195

Weight: 101

DOB: 1976-03-03

Recruited From: Wodonga/Murray U18/West Coast

Career Matches: 250

Career Goals: 481

2007 Home & Away Totals

Matches: 20

Goals: 59

Marks: 110

Disposals: 207

Kicks: 173

He made the All-Australian team1997 and 2004. He won the Coleman Medal in 2004 and 2005 and was St Kilda’s leading goalkicker in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006. He was also in the St Kilda pre-season premiership side in 2004!

Photo and fast facts from http://www.saints.com.au/TheClub/Players/PlayerProfile/tabid/8471/playerId/14479/teamId/39/typeId/2/Default.aspx

Here are some fast facts from Andrew Thompson’s career.

Andrew Thompson

Fast Facts

Jumper No: 4

Height: 180

Weight: 81

DOB: 1972-10-21

Recruited From: Old Melburnians

Career Matches: 220

Career Goals: 93

2007 Home & Away Totals

Matches: 10

Goals: 0

Marks: 21

Disposals: 105

Kicks: 37

He also won best and fairest in 2000 and was part of the pre-season premiership team in 2004!

Photo and fast facts from http://www.saints.com.au/TheClub/Players/PlayerProfile/tabid/8471/playerId/14479/teamId/39/typeId/2/Default.aspx

This is my second mind map.

It has been modified so read closely

Well this is a go one from the other history posts.

After 3 years in recess St.Kilda returned to the major copetition in 1918 when they made the finals with a great team including Bill Cubbins and Harry Lever. The Saints won 4 out of the 1st 5 games in 1919 before inner conflict caused them to fall apart.

Nothing exciting happened until 1936 when Bill Mohr topped the goal kicking list with 101 goals.

With only 11 teams in the VFL in 1943 the team at the bottom of the ladder after 11 round would drop out, you guessed it the team just happened to be St. Kilda.  even when they resumed they still weren’t a strong team recieving plenty of hidings.

Through all of this St.Kilda has always been a strongly followed team & drew 50,000 supporters to a game at Prahan in 1950 but the club had dropped down to the bottom by 1955.

If you keep posted I will do another blog soon!

As you all should know change is good, so this week I’m going to drop history and tell you about why this is  a vital part of the footy season.

If Saints win their next 2 games we are in the finals so keep an eye on them!!!