Ryan Davis made his AFL debut for the West Coast Eagles at Gold Coast Stadium versus North Melbourne in Round 8 of the 2008 AFL season.  It has been a meteoric rise for Ryan who played his junior football at the Willoughby Wildcats Junior Football Club and then made his senior debut for North Shore in 2007.  Season 2007 was an outstanding season for Ryan with a list of achievement being selection in the NSW/ACT RAMS U18 team, scholarship with the West Coast Eagles, Senior Premiership, Rod Podbury Medal for best on ground in the grand final and runner-up in the 2007 North Shore senior best and fairest.

Following his outstanding season, Ryan was offered a rookie list spot with the West Coast Eagles and has progressed rapidly in 2008 with WAFL club Swan Districts.  His progress has seen him elevated to the senior list at West Coast.  Ryan has also joined a select group of AFL players who kicked a goal with their first kick in senior football.

Following a successful stint as a top up player in the Sydney Swans reserves whilst playing with North Shore, Andrew was drafted by Essendon at pick 25 in the 1996 AFL Draft.  He made his senior debut vs North Melbourne in round 3 of the 1997 season and played 13 games for the Bombers over a two year period.  Andrew was traded to Sydney in 1999 and played 15 games over two seasons and was delisted at the end of 2000.  Andrew finished his career with North Shore in season 2001 where he was an integral member of the 2001 Premiership Team that defeated Campbelltown.  Andrew is a member of the North Shore Team of the Century that was announced in 2003.

Andrew's father Paul is the current team manager of the North Shore senior team.

Recruited by Melbourne from North Shore in 1977, Michael Byrne played 177 games of VFL/AFL football with Melbourne (56 games from 1977-1982), Hawthorn (100 games from 1982-1986) and Sydney Swans (21 games from 1987-1988).  In 1983, Byrne was a member of the Hawthorn premiership team.

Michael finished his VFL career in 1988 with Sydney and coached North Shore in seasons 1994 and 1995.  The Byrne family has a long history at North Shore with Michael's father Lionel captain coach of the 1961 senior premiership team and Lionel also returned to coach North Shore in seasons 1975 and 1976.

The most successful captain in the history of the North Shore Football Club, Mark Livy has led the club to three premiership wins in 2004, 2005 & 2007 as well as being a member of the 2001 premiership team.  A highly decorated representative player, Mark has represented the Sydney AFL representative team for more than 8 years in a row and captained the rep side in 2005.  Mark has also represented New South Wales on 3 occasions.  He has won the club senior best and fairest in 2000, 2003 and 2007.

Playing most of his football as an uncompromising centre half back in the later stages of his career, Livy began his career as a full forward and achieved some success as an Under 18 in that position winning the leading goalkicker award for the NSW/ACT RAMS in the TAC Cup in his early years.  He was also a Sydney Swans rookie list player prior to commencing his career with North Shore.

Livy was awarded Life Membership of the North Shore Football Club in 2009.

The winner of the 2005 Phelan Medal and 2005 Senior Best & Fairest in only his second season of senior football, Dean Davies football career in still in it's early stages.  Following a solid debut season in 2004 as part of the 2004 Premiership team, Dean was provided the opportunity to do pre-season training with the Essendon Football Club and returned to the North Shore a fitter and determined player who took all before him in season 2005.  In addition to his Phelan Medal win, Dean was joint winner (with teammate Marc Lord) of the NAB Rising Star award and a key figure in the 2005 Premiership win over Western Suburbs.  Dean is now pursuing his football career in Melbourne with the Northern Bullants but has been hampered by injury following his outstanding 2005 season.

Born in Aylestone, Leicestershire, Ralph Robertson achieved substantial, if fleeting, notoriety as an exponent of a 'strange' code of football on the other side of the world, initially in Melbourne where he ventured with his family as a three year old in 1885, and later in Sydney, where his involvement was significant in helping the sport establish a toehold after a prolonged hiatus.

Robertson's early football was played with junior club South Beach which was based in the St Kilda area.  In 1899 he fronted up in the VFL with the Saints, and went on to play a total of 14 league games in two seasons.  The 1901 season saw him based in Sydney where, with Australian football being in abeyance at the time, he played rugby union with a club that gloried in the name of Fitzroy.  When Australian football resumed in the harbour city in 1903, Robertson was an inaugural member - and vice-captain - of East Sydney, which landed that year's premiership.

Somewhat diminutive in stature at only 171cm, Robertson, perhaps not surprisingly, played mostly as a rover, although he could also provide more than solid service across half forward or at the goalfront.  A regular member of metropolitan and state representative teams, Ralph Robertson, who was once described as "one of the most scientific footballers in the state", represented New South Wales with distinction at each of the first three interstate championship series, winning a Referee Medal at Sydney in 1914.  His tally of 30 interstate appearances for New South Wales has been bettered only once.

In 1909, after six seasons with East Sydney, Robertson transferred to North Shore, and enjoyed the  immediate satisfaction of participating in another premiership team.  He was still at the top of his game when he signed up for active war service in 1914.  He died while after a mid-air collision while piloting a single-seater fighter plane over Egypt in May 1917.

In 2003, Ralph Robertson was named as one of ten inaugural members of the official Sydney AFL Hall of Fame.

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The son of North Melbourne's and Essendon's diminutive former champion, Charlie Hardy, John 'Jack' Hardy was only marginally bigger than his father (166cm and 67kg, as opposed to 156cm and 60kg), and boasted the same indefatigable fire and flair.  He spent most of his football career playing at a lower level than his father, but enjoyed a measure of notoriety all the same.  Just after World War Two he lined up for University Blacks where he was beginning to develop a reputation as a lively, influential, pronouncedly two-sided rover when a broken leg threw his entire football future into doubt.  Recovery was slow, but in 1948 he was given a chance by Carlton, which had spotted his potential during his brief time in the amateurs.  After a highly promising season in the reserves, Hardy was given a solitary game in the seniors in 1949, but any thoughts of extended VFL career were scuppered when he had to relocate to Sydney because of his work as an industrial chemist.  In 1950 he continued his football career with North Shore, and was soon making his mark as one of the most talented players in the Sydney competition.  The highlight of his time in the Harbour City came with a Phelan Medal the following year.  He also played representative football for New South Wales.  Hardy returned to Carlton in 1952 but was unable to break into the seniors.  He finally did so in 1953, but only added another 3 VFL games to his tally.  His impact on the game in Sydney was considerable, however, and was fittingly recognised in 2002 with his inclusion as first rover in North Shore's official 'Team of the Century'.

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After leaving Richmond Brown played 26 VFA games and kicked 61 goals for Dandenong, 54 of them in the 1972 season.  He then played with North Shore between 1976 and 1978 as well as in 1982, coaching the side to a flag in his last year.

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That background saw the Wagga-born Pitura devote most of his formative years to rugby league.  "My superstar heroes were all rugby league players from Sydney when I was a kid," he recalled years later.  "I used to be always able to kick the ball a mile and a couple of my mates turned around and said to me, you're mad.  They said, you're playing the wrong game, why don't you come and play Australian Rules, which I regarded as a sissy's game.

"I started to play Australian football and my mates gradually got me to play another game, then another game and soon I found that I liked it.  My parents didn't like rugby league very much.

"My father was Polish and he was a mad soccer fan.  They preferred me to play Australian Rules." 

Spotted by South Melbourne coach Norm Smith while playing for Wagga in an inter-league match, Pitura was enticed to the Lake Oval as a 16 year old and, after overcoming home sickness and various other problems, quickly began to make his mark.  One of those rare individuals who possess the natural skills necessary to succeed at virtually any ball game, Pitura was a polished left footer who became equally at home in the centre or across half forward.  He earned a Big V jumper in 1973 and played precisely 100 games for South over six seasons.  His relations with the club hierarchy were never entirely comfortable, however, and after the 1973 season he threatened to quit, saying he was tired of the committee reneging on its promises.  After prolonged and often highly tense negotiations (he was even offered to Glenelg in a swap for Graham Cornes at one stage) Pitura returned to the team in July 1974, apparently on the condition that he be traded to Richmond at the end of the season.  However, once again the South committee proved reluctant to fulfill its promise, and Pitura threatened to challenge the clearance rules in court.  In the end, the clearance went through, albeit with much ill feeling on all sides, with perhaps the most damaged party being Pitura himself, who never again displayed his best form.  

After two and a half seasons and 40 games with the Tigers John Pitura returned to his home state of New South Wales as captain-coach of NSWAFL club North Shore which he immediately steered to a first premiership for twenty-six years.  He later played for Kedron (finishing 2nd in the voting for the 1981 Grogan Medal) and Coorparoo in the QAFL.

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After his playing career was over, Breen served as General Manager of the Sydney Swans.  He is a member of both St Kilda's and Balmain's official 'Teams of the Twentieth Century'.

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