SOME 200 St Kilda players past and present will form a guard of honour for retiring champion Robert Harvey in what the Saints are dubbing the Robert Harvey Tribute match against the Crows on Sunday.

The club has been busy trying to contact the 220 players that Harvey has played with throughout his 21-year career — including current players — to be there on Sunday when Harvey runs out on to the Telstra Dome with his wife and three children.

"Hopefully we should get the vast majority of them," club spokesman Matt Schmidt said yesterday.

"It's going to be quite incredible."

While the Saints will play at the Telstra Dome again in round 22, and could extend their season into the finals, Schmidt said they had chosen the weekend's match to dedicate to Harvey as it will be their last home game of the season.

"We thought it would be best to mark it as our last home game and then regardless of how far we stretch into finals — if we make finals — we have marked it properly already," Schmidt said.

"It's a pretty emotional time, having a legend like Harvs' career coming to an end, but certainly we wanted to be able to mark his last game at some point."

Other measures the club are taking to mark the occasion include making a vast No. 35 jumper to hang from the Nylex sign at the Dome, handing out 30,000 small No. 35 banners to supporters as they come into the ground and printing an 80-page Robert Harvey testimonial magazine that will be sold on the night.

The man himself, meanwhile, is typically focused on the upcoming match.