But what the 26-year-old defender really wants to smash is the Seagulls' 61-year-old Hampden league premiership drought. 

"It's been a long time, so the people of the town have suffered a lot," he said. 

And Sully would know.

His father Gerard, grandfather Murt, and uncles Mick and Robert Sully, Shaun Murrihy and Scott Hetherington all played for the Seagulls, while his grandma, Marj, is a life member of the club.

Port Fairy endured its fair share of heartbreak in this time, with grand final defeats in 1971, 1972, 1983, 1997, 2005 and 2017. 

Sully remembers watching the club's 2005 loss to Terang Mortlake, when former Geelong players Brad Sholl and Ronnie Burns donned the purple guernsey alongside John McNamara and Josh Walters. 

But the sting of having three seasons in a row ended by Koroit, including preliminary finals in 2016 and 2018 and the decider in 2017, motivates him just as much as the ancient history.

"We're not going to sit here and say we're just aiming to play finals - we want to win it all," Sully said.

"I've got family here and there's so many volunteers who've put so much into the club for the last 60 years.

"So it would be massive for me, but even more so for the whole playing group and everyone involved - it would be pretty special."

Sully said he and the league's other key defenders would have their hands full with two boom recruits in Koroit's Sam Dobson, a former Geelong VFL player, and former NT Thunder star Darren Ewing, who has joined Warrnambool. 

But he's confident Port Fairy's experienced core, buoyed by up-and-coming players in Jim Conlan, Blake Carroll, Tyler Hetherington, Kaine Mercovich and Colin Harwood, can match with the best in the business and put the Seagulls into finals contention once more.

Port Fairy kicks off the 2019 season against South Warrnambool on April 6 at Gardens Oval.