St Kilda has been unveiling the list compiled by club historian Russell Holmesby of his top 25 players of all time.
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Of those, 15 played at the club in the time of legendary trainer and runner Ken 'Kenny' Whiffin, who died after a short battle with cancer on Saturday night. He was 87.
Whiffin had been at the Saints for half a century, and was as beloved a figure as there as can possibly have been inside the four walls of a football club.
His association with St Kilda began in 1965, the year the club moved to Moorabbin. Initially the team's trainer, Whiffin stepped in to deliver messages for senior coach Allan Jeans when normal runner Ronnie Wilson was ill on grand final day 1966.
In his final days, Whiffin took scores of visits and phone calls from St Kilda players and staff past and present. He greeted them all with messages of thanks, as he lay in bed covered by sheets, and a club flag – which had messages from the current day Saints.
Tributes for Whiffin flowed on social media on Saturday night.
Former St Kilda coach Grant Thomas labelled Whiffin "the most determined, committed Saint he had seen".
"Ken Whiffin, runner, masseur, trainer, man of honour, committed to the hilt, unbending, brutally honest & the person u want in the trench X," Thomas tweeted.
"RIP to the great Kenny Whiffin, absolute legend of a man who did it all for the saints for so long," tweeted former Saint Jason Gram.
Ex-Saint Nick Dal Santo was another to laud the impact Whiffin had.
"Gave everything and asked for nothing. Thanks Ken Whiffin!"
While he had ceased full-time work at the club, Whiffin remained very much part of the furniture at Seaford until his death.
The recently retired Lenny Hayes had insisted on getting massages and having his ankles strapped by Whiffin as a pre-game ritual.
Whiffin had been honoured with AFL life membership, and awarded the Jack 'Skinny' Titus award for services to football. At a pre-match ceremony prior to their clash with Gold Coast last year, the Saints made a presentation to Whiffin, with club games record-holder Robert Harvey on hand for the formalities.
Whiffin was also a longstanding member of the Moorabbin Boxing Gym, working out at the venue until well into his 80s.
Whiffin had lost wife Betty early in 2014 after a long marriage. He is survived by daughter Joanne, and son-in-law Peter Brown, himself a former Saints player.