Unpluggered

During the AFL's enforced COVID-19 break we'll be revisting some of our special guest interviews from previous episodes. It started with the AFL's '2001 Superdraft,' and in a career spanning 15 years in red, white and black, Leigh Montagna played 287 games for the St Kilda Football Club. He is a two-time All Australian, and finished in the Top 3 of the clubs Best & Fairest (Trevor Barker Medal...

During the AFL's enforced COVID-19 break we'll be revisting some of our special guest interviews from previous episodes. In September 2019, Unpluggered's Darren Parkin sat down with Saints skipper Jarryn Geary to talk about his captaincy in troubling times at Moorabbin, his injury riddled season, and what comes next for the St Kilda Football Club in 2020 and beyond. Get in touch with the boys on s...

During the AFL's enforced COVID-19 break we'll be revisting some of our special guest interviews from previous episodes. A polarizing figure, Grant Thomas has spent 40+ years in the football industry. With 72 games as a player, and 123 as senior coach, as well as playing and working with some of the greatest footy minds in the game in various roles - GT is uniquely placed to commentate on the hist...

During the AFL's enforced COVID-19 break we'll be revisting some of our special guest interviews from previous episodes. Love him or hate him, Stephen Milne is a great of the St Kilda Football Club. 574 goals from 275 games puts him fifth on the St Kilda Football Club's all-time goalkicking list, behind only the storied careers of Tony Lockett, Bill Mohr, Nick Riewoldt and Stewart Loewe. Milney. M...

During the AFL's enforced COVID-19 break we'll be revisting some of our special guest interviews from previous episodes. Adam Schneider was an important cog in the greatest team to never win an AFL Premiership. 130 games, 160 goals and three AFL Grand Final appearances for the St Kilda Football Club (after 98 games and a premiership with the Sydney Swans), the small forward known as "Schneiderman"...

During the AFL's enforced COVID-19 break we'll be revisting some of our special guest interviews from previous episodes. Today - Round 2, 2020 - the St Kilda Football Club was scheduled to play the West Coast Eagles, so we thought we'd look back at someone who had a defining impact on a Saints vs WCE match way back in 1998. Peter 'Spida' Everitt kicked 6 goals and earned himself 3 Brownlow votes f...

Another pre-season week gone means we're one week closer to Round of the 2020 AFL Premiership season! Before we get to our guests, the lads chat everything from the Marsh Cup and friendly match performances against the Hawks at Moorabbin and Morwell, the Saints AFLW side unlucky to not be on the positive side of the ledger - and higher up the ladder - after 3 hard-fought losses to go with their ma...

Our next guest played 321 games for the St Kilda Football Club, kicking 594 goals between 1986-2002, co-captained the 1997 Grand Final team, and for a period, held the VFL/AFL record for the most marks in the history of the game. Stewart Loewe is a Trevor Barker Medallist, 2x All Australian, EJ Whitten Medallist and was named at Half Forward in the St Kilda FC Team of the Century. The man with the...

Footy's back at Moorabbin! On the eve of a famous day in the history of the St Kilda Football Club, Darren Parkin, Nick Splitter and Aaron McGrath are back to kick off the first episode of 2020 with a bang. Just days out from the first official match of the St Kilda FC Women in their inaugural AFLW season, the boys discuss the list build of the St Kilda FCW team and the makeup of Conference B in 2...

The 2019 season is now officially in the books, with the NAB AFL Draft, Rookie Draft and Pre-Season Draft complete. After a massive trade period haul, the St Kilda FC recruitment team didn't have alot of draft assets to work with. Chris Toce, the club's State Recruitment Manager (VIC & Allies), joined Darren, Nick and Aaron in the studio to discuss what the process of youth recruitment looks l...

The 2019 AFL Trade Period is in the books and the Saints emerged as the big winners of this incredibly important part of the football calendar, with five - yes FIVE - quality players nominating Moorabbin as their preferred next club. Not only has Linton St become a destination for AFL talent, but while other clubs dithered and missed out on their targets, the list management team made it work, bri...

The Unpluggered crew are back in the studio again, this time wrapping up what has been a big couple of weeks - a big year, in fact - of St Kilda football. We break down the 2019 playing list, cover potential trades, and list our highs and lows and from the 2019 season. The boys also bring in another former Saints champion - 287 game, 2x All Australian Saint, Leigh Montagna - as well as a quick wor...

One of the poorest losses of the year concludes season 2019 for the Saints. As we head into the silly season encompassing trade rumours, player movement and list management we welcomed former player, director and finals coach, Grant Thomas to the podcast. Darren Parkin (SEN 1116), Aaron McGrath ('H') and Nick Splitter (StatsInsider.com.au) talk through their favourite/best Saints player trades, re...

Few players in VFL/AFL history have been as polarising as Stephen Milne, but, if you bleed RW&B, chances are you probably love a man who played 275 games and kicked 574 goals for the club. One of the greatest small forwards in football history, the man known as Milney is a two-time All Australian, four-time St Kilda FC leading goalkicker and the player opposition fans loved to hate. This week,...

Back on the winners list! Four-time Trevor Barker Medallist (and "abit fat") Jack Steven returned to play a starring role in the Saints Round 21 clash against the Fremantle Dockers, a fixture which has turned into abit of a mini-rivalry between the two teams. Plenty to talk about this week, including a guest appearance by 200-gamer (130 with St Kilda FC), and three-time St Kilda Grand Finalist, Ad...

Today you can hear him on the radio at 92.5 Gold FM, but in a former life, Peter Everitt played 180 of a 291-game career in the red, white and black of the St Kilda Football Club. The big #10 for the Saints finished his stellar AFL journey as a 2-time Best & Fairest winner, 3-time All Australian, and as of early 2019, a St Kilda FC Hall of Fame member. Now, he makes history as the first guest...

The boys are back, and there's three happy faces in the "Unpluggered" studio following the mighty Sainters' important win over the Demons in Round 19. SEN1116's Darren Parkin chats with Nick Splitter (StatsInsider.com.au) and Aaron McGrath (H!) about their earliest memories at and of the St Kilda Football Club, what went right in Saturday night's victory, and what needs to happen in the big Round...

In the week following the removal of Alan Richardson as senior coach, three lifelong mates, die-hard Saints fans, decided to put their thoughts online in podcast format. Hence, "Unpluggered" was born. Darren Parkin (of SEN1116 fame) chats with long-suffering Saints members Aaron McGrath (known as 'H'), and Nick Splitter (of StatsInsider.com.au) to discuss the aftermath of the 'Richo Era' - and the...