Danny Frawley made his senior debut for Bungaree as a skinny 16-year-old, the start of a football career that would make him a St Kilda great. In his hometown, he’ll always be a favourite son, as Mark Robinson found out.
Some called him Danny, some Spud, but to David Parkin he was ‘Dan’. The coaching great, like the rest of the football community, has been left shattered at Danny Frawley’s death, and has opened up on the “tough day” the pair shared.
Geoff “Joffa” Cunningham was older than Danny Frawley but knew he could play — and that he loved a laugh. One night he asked ‘Spud’ why the club raffle was always being won by the same trio. Plus Nathan Buckley’s emotional Frawley tribute.
Danny Frawley was rarely lost for words, but his loved ones were always enough to move him. And so it was a short, but moving speech about great mate Tony Lockett, that epitomised the spud farmer from Bungaree. WATCH
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ST KILDA coach Alan Richardson says the Saints would consider sending Nathan Freeman to an overseas specialist to solve his ongoing hamstring issues.
JAKE Carlisle is eager to return to St Kilda on September 13 — the first day he is permitted — to start a massive pre-season after recent hip surgery.
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ST KILDA’S pain runs deeper than the loss of defender Hugh Goddard for the season with a snapped Achilles tendon.
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