List of South Melbourne / Sydney defenders

Defenders who have played in at least one match for South Melbourne / Sydney in a VFL/AFL premiership. This list may be incomplete due to incomplete match player position records (from which these general player positions are generated).

Player List

No. Player Season(s) Match(es) Position(s) Detail(s)
1 Dave Adamson 1897-1903 90 Defender Key Defender
2 Jack Deas 1897 2 Defender Back Pocket
3 Charlie McCartney 1897 13 Defender
4 Jim O'Hara 1897-1901 37 Defender
5 Frank O'Hara 1897-1901 60 Defender Key Defender
6 Eddie Toms 1897 7 Defender Half-Back Flanker
7 George Williamson 1897-1898 12 Defender Back Pocket
8 Dick Doran 1897 9 Defender Back Pocket
9 George Davidson 1897-1900 37 Defender Half-Back Flanker
10 Eddie Brown 1898 5 Forward / Defender
11 Henri Jeanneret 1898-1903 75 Forward / Defender
12 George Sparrow 1898 14 Defender
13 Albert Trim 1898-1901 65 Defender
14 Arch McNair 1898-1899 13 Forward / Defender
15 Harry Lampe 1899-1907 135 Forward / Defender
16 Artie Henley 1899 10 Defender
17 Charlie James 1899-1904 78 Defender Key Defender
18 Jack Davidson 1900 7 Defender Back Pocket
19 Otto Kelly 1902 16 Defender Back Pocket
20 Arthur Adamson 1902-1903 28 Defender Half-Back Flanker
21 Len Incigneri 1903-1905 2 Defender
22 Bill Dolphin 1905-1911 100 Defender Key Defender
23 Bill Thomas 1905-1913 135 Defender
24 Charlie Cameron 1905 1 Ruckman / Defender Ruckman / Key Defender
25 George Anderson 1906-1908 42 Defender Half-Back Flanker
26 Phonse Wood 1907-1908 30 Defender Key Defender
27 Bert Atkins 1907-1908 32 Defender Half-Back Flanker
28 Lindsay Maine 1907-1908 16 Defender Back Pocket
29 Tom Grimshaw 1908-1912 85 Defender
30 Jack Scobie 1909-1913 75 Defender Back Pocket
31 Alan Pentland 1909-1912 53 Defender Half-Back Flanker
32 Frank Laird 1921-1925 66 Defender Half-Back Flanker
33 Frank Ross 1922-1924 32 Defender Half-Back Flanker
34 Arthur Hando 1922-1924 45 Defender Key Defender
35 Joe Scanlan 1923-1931 148 Defender Back Pocket
36 Les Woodfield 1923-1927 76 Defender Key Defender
37 Charlie Nicholls 1923-1927 56 Defender
38 Darren Gaspar 1994-1995 21 Defender Key Defender
39 Leo Barry 1995-2009 237 Defender
40 Rowan Warfe 1997-2004 84 Defender Back Pocket
41 Ben Mathews 1997-2008 198 Defender
42 Jason Saddington 1998-2005 142 Defender
43 Jared Crouch 1998-2009 223 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Back Pocket
44 Heath James 1999-2004 18 Defender Key Defender
45 Andrew Schauble 2000-2005 88 Defender Key Defender
46 Tadhg Kennelly 2001-2011 197 Defender Half-Back Flanker
47 Scott Stevens 2002-2003 25 Forward / Defender
48 Craig Bolton 2003-2010 170 Defender
49 Lewis Roberts-Thomson 2003-2014 179 Defender Key Defender
50 Paul Bevan 2004-2011 129 Defender
51 Jarrad McVeigh 2004-2019 325 Defender
52 Sean Dempster 2005-2007 54 Defender Key Defender
53 Nick Malceski 2005-2014 176 Defender
54 Ted Richards 2006-2016 228 Defender Key Defender
55 Heath Grundy 2006-2019 256 Defender Key Defender
56 Luke Brennan 2007-2008 9 Forward / Defender
57 Ed Barlow 2007-2010 26 Forward / Defender Half-Forward Flanker / Defender
58 Martin Mattner 2008-2013 124 Defender
59 Nick Smith 2008-2018 211 Defender Back Pocket
60 Rhyce Shaw 2009-2015 143 Defender
61 Lewis Jetta 2010-2015 127 Defender
62 Campbell Heath 2010 2 Defender Back Pocket
63 Andrejs Everitt 2011-2013 43 Forward / Defender
64 Alex Johnson 2011-2018 47 Defender Key Defender
65 Matt Spangher 2011 6 Defender Key Defender
66 Harry Cunningham 2012-2022 161 Defender
67 Tony Armstrong 2012-2013 15 Defender
68 Dane Rampe 2013-2022 215 Defender Key Defender
69 Shane Biggs 2013-2014 6 Defender
70 Jeremy Laidler 2014-2017 61 Defender
71 Jake Lloyd 2014-2022 200 Defender Half-Back Flanker
72 Zak Jones 2014-2019 90 Midfielder / Defender Midfielder / Half-Back Flanker
73 Callum Mills 2016-2022 135 Midfielder / Defender
74 Michael Talia 2016 1 Defender Key Defender
75 Aliir Aliir 2016-2020 64 Defender Key Defender
76 Harry Marsh 2016-2018 25 Defender
77 Oliver Florent 2017-2022 118 Defender
78 Robbie Fox 2017-2022 67 Defender
79 Nic Newman 2017-2018 31 Defender
80 Jordan Dawson 2017-2021 64 Defender
81 Lewis Melican 2017-2021 52 Defender Key Defender
82 Tom McCartin 2018-2022 95 Forward / Defender Key Forward / Key Defender
83 Ryley Stoddart 2018-2020 6 Defender
84 Colin O'Riordan 2018-2022 34 Defender
85 Jackson Thurlow 2019-2020 17 Defender Half-Back Flanker
86 Justin McInerney 2019-2022 53 Midfielder / Defender Wingman / Half-Back Flanker
87 Kaiden Brand 2020-2021 5 Defender Key Defender
88 Matt Ling 2020-2021 4 Defender
89 Braeden Campbell 2021-2022 25 Defender
90 Paddy McCartin 2022 24 Forward / Defender Forward / Back Pocket