Stephen Milne
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| Nickname(s) | Milney | ||
| Date of birth | 8 March 1980 | ||
| Original team(s) | Dandenong Stingrays (TAC Cup) | ||
| Draft | No. 23, 2000 Rookie Draft, St Kilda | ||
| Height / weight | 176cm (5 ft, 9 in) / 83kg | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
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| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 2001–2013 | St Kilda | 275 (574) | |
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| Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
| 2002, 2011 | Australia | 2 (0) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 2013.
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| Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com | |||
Stephen Milne (born 8 March 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). A small forward, he held the AFL record for the most goals kicked at the Docklands Stadium. He also held the record for the most games played by a player originally drafted via the Rookie Draft, however this was surpassed by the West Coast Eagles' Dean Cox in early 2014.
Milne was recruited to the St Kilda Football Club from the Essendon reserves and placed on St Kilda's Rookie List after playing for the Dandenong Stingrays and Noble Park Football Club in the late 1990s.
Milne was elevated to St Kilda's primary list from the club's rookie list prior to the start of the 2001 season. He played his first official AFL game in 2001 against Port Adelaide at Football Park in Round 4. He scored 2.1 in his first game and had 17 disposals in a losing side.
He was St Kilda's leading goalkicker in 2002, kicking 50 goals from 21 matches in the 2002 AFL Premiership Season.
Milne played in St Kilda’s 2004 Wizard Home Loans Cup winning side, the club's second pre-season cup win.
Later in 2004 Milne and team mate Leigh Montagna were the at the centre of a police investigation of the alleged rape of a woman. No charges were laid; however, in June 2010 a former detective who was the lead detective in the case made claims that the case collapsed under internal pressure from within the Victorian police force and powerful club backers as well as another detective alleging the cost of the case was a factor. In 2012 the Office of Police Integrity concluded after a lengthy investigation that "the OPI investigators found no evidence to substantiate the allegation that police investigating the rape were subject to improper influence" On 18 June 2013 it was reported that Milne had been charged with four counts of rape over the 2004 incident.
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