Still vividly remember Ken's first game coaching us, as it was my first game officially barracking for St Kilda and with a membership, after having previously barracked for Sydney for a few years (before that just tended to barrack for whoever was the best team, up until I was about 7 or 8yo, lol).
Was against Footscray at the Western Oval and we were standing just near the coaches box and at one of the breaks Ken came out to go and address the team and he pulled up his pant leg to reveal to us his Saints socks. Might have been at 3/4 time, with us up by 11 goals.
Was also Chris Grant's first AFL game, at just 17yo. He went on to kick 50 goals that year. If that was this year he wouldn't have even been old enough to be playing and would have just been drafted a couple of weeks ago and would have only been a couple of weeks off being too young to even be drafted this year! Would have been like if say Brander had been playing AFL this year and kicked 50 goals, rather than struggling to get a kick at times in the TAC Cup.
Was against Footscray at the Western Oval and we were standing just near the coaches box and at one of the breaks Ken came out to go and address the team and he pulled up his pant leg to reveal to us his Saints socks. Might have been at 3/4 time, with us up by 11 goals.
Was also Chris Grant's first AFL game, at just 17yo. He went on to kick 50 goals that year. If that was this year he wouldn't have even been old enough to be playing and would have just been drafted a couple of weeks ago and would have only been a couple of weeks off being too young to even be drafted this year! Would have been like if say Brander had been playing AFL this year and kicked 50 goals, rather than struggling to get a kick at times in the TAC Cup.