After a 1988 season where he played only eight senior games, Russo, alongside Paul Harding and Robert Handley, was traded to St Kilda in exchange for the first choice in the 1988 VFL Draft.
[1] Russo spent three seasons with the Saints, although he did not play a single game in 1991 due to a knee reconstruction and retired in June of that year.
Peter coached the Dandenong Stingrays in their inaugural TAC Cup season in 1992.
He also has three nephews who have played league football, Josh Kennedy (son of John Kennedy Jr. and Bernadette Russo), and brothers Luke and Matthew Ball (sons of Ray Ball and Jenny Russo).
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