Also an inaugural inductee into AFL Hall of Fame. Nash played 99 games with the Swans including the 1933 premiership. For a period the club’s best-and-fairest award was called the Laurie Nash Medal in his honour.

Round straddled the era when South Melbourne became the Swans. An AFL Hall of Fame member, the barrel-chested ruckman played 193 games for Swans, winning the Brownlow Medal in 1981.

An AFL Hall of Famer, Michael O’Loughlin was the first player to register 300 games for the Swans, finishing with 303 games and 521 goals. He is a dual All Australian and member of the AFL’s Indigenous Team of the Century.

The Goodes O’Loughlin Medal for the best on ground in Sydney’s Marn Grook game is named in his honour.

Originally rejected as too slow for AFL football, Brett Kirk played 241 games for the Swans from 1999-2010, captaining the club from 2005-10.

All-Australian and Bob Skilton Medallist Daryn Cresswell, a relentless midfielder in the 1990s, was the most recent of four Hall of Fame new inductees, along with earlier era heroes Peter Reville, Arthur Hiskins and Tom Bushell.

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A brilliant half-forward, Reville played 156 games for South Melbourne and kicked 207 goals from 1925-1934, including the 1933 grand final victory over Richmond.

Former captain-coach “Poddy” Hiskins played 185 games and kicked 56 goals for South Melbourne from 1908-1923, including the 1909 premiership, during a career interrupted by army service in World War I.

One of the finest forwards of his time, Bushell represented South Melbourne with great distinction from 1881 to 1892, during a golden era for the club in which it won five VFA premierships before the VFL was formed.