St Kilda champions Stewart Loewe and Robert Harvey lead an emotional tribute for their recently-deceased former teammate, Danny Frawley at the club's 2019 Trevor Barker Award.
"He was the man I just adored, first as a teammate, then as my skipper and then as one of my very best mates," Loewe said of Frawley.
"Harvs and I were both kids when we started our careers at St Kilda and like so many others, he helped shape us into the men we both are today.
"He taught us how to compete, he had enormous empathy, he had an insatiable hunger to drive himself to be the best he could be."
Harvey, who played alongside Frawley for the final eight years of his career that spanned from 1984 to 1995, remembered the full-back's final match against Footscray.
"I'll just never forget the emotion we had that day. I clearly remember thinking, footy won't be the same without him.
"I was just saddened in the days, the week after thinking 'What are we going to do without Spud again?' The laughs, the banter, the dinners, the presence only Spud could bring, it was never going to be there again.
"Unfortunately, we're here again but this is forever. When our old crew gets together, and we drink beers and we tell stories about times passed, it's just changed forever now."