The AFL's annual rounds recognising and celebrating indigenous players and culture is named in honour of Sir Doug Nicholls.
Played across Rounds 10 and 11, the much-anticipated weekends of football see all 18 clubs participate in donning unique and specifically designed Indigenous guernseys that have various meanings and symbolism.
Check out your club's 2024 Indigenous guernsey and the story behind its design...
St Kilda
For the first time in club history, we will proudly go by the Boon Wurrung name of Euro-Yroke across this year’s Sir Doug Nicholls Round 🖤💛❤️
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— St Kilda FC (@stkildafc) May 8, 2024
Natural elements of Euro-Yroke (St Kilda) are reflected across each tri-colour design, beginning with the water and waves of Nairm (Port Phillip Bay), moving to the sandy shorelines and through to the coastal vegetation further in-land; all meeting as one earth under the stripes of Euro-Yroke.
The story continues at the back of the guernsey through the silhouette of Naarm's (Melbourne's) hills, with an additional artwork featuring a symbol of mobs journeying to a central gathering point, in this case, the club.
Similar to last year's Sir Doug Nicholls Round guernsey, the names of the 33 Indigenous players to have represented the Saints at AFL/AFLW level - up until the end of last season - are printed onto the jumper, sitting above artwork of a boomerang and traditional spears in reference to the strength of Euro-Yroke's First Nations people.
