Former St Kilda captain Danny Frawley has revealed his top five football pests on Melbourne radio station SEN on Tuesday morning.
Frawley listed current day players as well as some he played against himself, in a list of players who were sure to make opposition fans' blood boil.
1. Tony Shaw
The number one pest in all of football according to Frawley.
Collingwood's premiership captain and the Norm Smith Medallist in 1990, Shaw played 313 games for the Pies and is in the club's Hall of Fame and Team of the Century.
“The Monty Python film is what I think of Shawy, the Holy Grail. No arms and no legs, but he’ll bite your kneecaps off," Frawley said.
“There’s a shot in the Saints’ museum of Shawy hanging onto his left leg and Plugger (Tony Lockett) is still running and he kicks a goal while Shawy is like a little Rottweiler on his leg.
“In 1992, before the game, I’m going ‘Don’t worry about Shawy’s antics, just play the ball.’ I could see the big fellow (Lockett), he had the cash registers in his eyes, he just wanted to get him and just crush his skull.
“We get to the first bounce and walking in, Shawy’s gone ‘Oh Spud, look at the muscles on you!’. I’m think ‘Just toss the coin and get out of there.’
“It was my call. He’s into me and all I’m listening to is him at me: ‘Oh look at you, what have you been on?’ I’ve seen the coin land and he says ‘I’m inside your head. I’ve got you Frawley, you’re done.’
“The umpire tosses it up again, it went in the mud face down so he had to toss it again, we’ve actually grabbed each other.
“I said ‘Boys, whatever I said about Shawy, first time he gets to the ball we have to grab him.’
“He was an absolute beauty.”
