The memory of Danny Frawley lives on at St Kilda Football Club in a variety of facets.

On Thursday, the playing group, coaches, physios and select staff carpooled to visit Frawley’s farm on the outskirts of Ballarat. Media was not invited.

Just hours after completing an intra-club at RSEA Park, the 65-strong cohort learned what was special to the late Frawley on the paddock where he grew up.

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Broadly, the trip was designed to pay tribute to the club’s second longest-serving captain. It was driven by coach Brett Ratten, chief operating officer Simon Lethlean, player welfare manager Tony Brown and footy boss David Rath.

It’s understood the gesture was welcomed by members of the Frawley family, who gave the Saints a tour of the facility where racehorses go to recover from injury. There are roughly 20 horses on the property at the moment.

Welfare manager Brown, who worked alongside Frawley in recent years at St Kilda, had a special attachment to the former fullback.

Danny Frawley and Tony Brown. Source: News Corp Australia

It was Frawley who presented Brown with the number two Guernsey after he retired in the mid-1990s. When Frawley returned to the club as part-time defensive coach in November 2014, his desk was situated just five metres from Brown's office at the Saints Seaford headquarters. The duo shared a special bond.

Later on Thursday, St Kilda champion Stewart Loewe spoke fondly of Frawley’s legacy. Those who witnessed it say it was incredibly moving and insightful.

Saints recruit Dan Butler offered up his three acre property not far from Frawley’s for everyone to stay. Players brought their own swags and slept under the stars.

To this new wave of St Kilda people, learning about the club’s history and one of its most admired players was universally embraced.

Dinner was at Oscar’s, an award-winning Ballarat restaurant owned by Frawley’s cousin Danny Quinlan.

Quinlan, who grew up with Frawley and formed a dynamic duo as ‘the two Dannys’, spoke at last September’s memorial service.

"Mate, we tried our best. We didn’t get it done. I am going to miss you so badly, words cannot describe the heartache," Mr Quinlan, who spoke on behalf of Frawley's family, said.

"Give your mates a hug. Don’t be afraid to talk about the big issues. I would love you to remember him as you heard him on the radio [Triple M] with Garry [Lyon] and the boys. They would wind him up and we'd hear the true Danny. He didn’t have to act,

On Friday morning, players, coaches and staff carpooled back to Melbourne ahead of training on Saturday. The footy-grind can only wait for so long.

Team-building is often a key plank of summer training. But this, according to a Saint who was there, was club building. And hugely beneficial.

Frawley may be gone, but his legacy is not forgotten.