Reserves Premierships in the AFL Reserves 1919 to 1999. The Junior Premiership 1957, and club crest inspiration from 1876.

Reserves, Under 19's, and the "Elusive" 1st Ever Reserves Premiership Cup.

St Kilda FC qualified for its first ever Reserves Grand Final in 1933, listed as a 1 point loss to the Demons. Some thought it was more than suspicious.

Back to Back: 1942-43

The Saints broke through for two consecutive Reserves Premierships in 1942 & 43, during World War 2. Both won against Fitzroy by 31 and 26 points respectively. Fitzroy went on to win the Premiership & Reserves Premiership in 1944, before never winning anything ever again under that name at the highest level before their panto-mime, fully pre-negotiated, extortion plot, voluntary "faux forced" merger with Brisbane Bears in 1996. 

St Kilda FC's two consecutive flags were exactly that, there was no trophy at the time.

Under 19's: The One & Only Premiership 1957

The Saints 1st (and only) Under 19's Premiership was won in 1957 in gruesome circumstances at Punt Road, in front of some lazy barely interested Richmond supporters at their home ground. St Kilda FC played South (Sydney Swans). The game was going well until a young St Kilda player developed an issue with his foot suddenly, that then broke into three different pieces during play. Which became more obvious after his boot was removed. The Richmond members watched in quiet squealing horror.

He was told there were no reserves or emergencies allowed or available, and decided to sit out the rest of the game outside the boundary line to protect his foot, on the bench. He was then unceremoniously told incorrectly by the umpire that he had to stay inside the field of play, and could not sit inside the fence, outside the boundary line. His foot was described as "a bag of loose bones on the end of his leg" by the Richmond supporters there, as he propped himself inside the field of play in the "forward pocket".

South playing an extra player who could run compared to The Saints inexorably worked their way back into the game, getting within a goal in the Final Quarter. Always going via near the injured player from defense. Late in the game the ball bounded towards the injured junior hobbling in the forward pocket, who poked his broken foot at the ball as almost a reflex action in response to the bounce, to try to deflect it towards a teammate. When it made contact with his foot he immediately collapsed to the ground in agony, the ball deflected towards his teammate, who grabbed it and did an improvised "reverse torpedo" that wobbled through for a goal. The team then celebrated briefly next to him laying on the ground clutching his sock full of bones. 

St Kilda won its only Under 19's Premiership as a result. The seriously injured player received basically nothing from the Premiership. People complained afterwards that if the umpire had not insisted the injured player stay in the field of play, he would never have deflected the ball, and St Kilda FC may not have won.

The idea that a trophy "might have cheered him up afterwards", after he had to quit the sport due to his foot, is what spawned the eventual design for the current AFL Premiership Cup, designed by a member of the Webb family. With definitive respectful references to the sport being native to what is now Gippsland in origin in the 1500's. There were no references to the Habsburg Royal Family in the Premiership Cup design, for those familiar with the fact that the Webb family includes eligible Habsburg Royals, where applicable.

The injured premiership player who had to quit footy moved to the Americas afterwards, and became a rock star under the name "Ritchie Valens". He was erroneously reported dead in a plane accident, with Buddy Holly and the "Big Bopper", etcetera, in February 1959. The Premiership Cup, which was designed with the theme of "cheering him and his teammates up" after he played in St Kilda's only Under 19's Premiership, and then had to quit the sport, was first awarded as the Premiership Cup later in the year in the 1959 Finals Series, After he was erroneously reported dead. 

Valens looked remarkably like Prince Sebastian Habsburg when he was young and a rock star (likely his biological Grandfather).

The development of the players involved led to The Saints playing in three Reserves Grand Finals in a Row in 1961, 62, & 63.

1961 Reserves Premiership:

One of the earlier Reserves Finals Series games in 1961 was a draw. It caused the Reserves Grand Final between St Kilda and Geelong to be a stand alone event, as the only game at the MCG the week after the Grand Final in the Seniors.

A bizarrely large and focused crowd attended the game, which resulted in St Kilda FC winning a 3rd Reserves Premiership 56 - 46. Apparently it was a memorable event the crowd never really forgot. There was still no Reserves Premiership Trophy (Cup) at the time. 

The reserves Premiership Cup was not introduced until the 1970's (approximately). When it was, the focus immediately turned to teasing teams about not having one. 

1982 Reserves Grand Final:

St Kilda qualified for the 1982 Reserves Grand Final in more difficult circumstances than anyone really understood at the time, due to the ongoing attempt to completely obliterate the club (as a cover up) and replace it with a team from Perth later on. 

That in progress plan was escalated when South bizarrely moved to Sydney before the start of the 1982 season. It was specifically to destroy St Kilda FC ("within three years", like a big job offered by another club) in exchange for "debt relief" of the organized crime variety. The idea that if nobody watched them, after figuring out what they were doing in Sydney and the free tickets disappeared, they may be able to "move back to fill the void left by no St Kilda", was in the background.

The Saints ran into the ("Sydney") Swans in the Escort Cup during the first half of the year, which had games played mid-week during the Premiership Season. St Kilda defeated ("Sydney") Swans in the Quarter Finals, but were incorrectly listed as losing by 8 points, in fixed game (allegedly?). 

The Swans went on to pretend to win the tournament in a bizarrely stupid result, versus a seriously over-achieving North. The "this is for all you people in Sydney out there...." thing during the presentation, only a few months after the "move", went almost completely unnoticed there. Bizarre.

When the "financially troubled" Saints, under extreme terrorism oppression pressure for no valid reason, qualified for the 1982 reserves Grand Final against Geelong and fielded a strong eligible team, it was like a trip to Kardinia Park all over again. 

The scores were wrong by plenty (at least 30 points), and it may as well have been hypno-techno war on the dancefloor, against the Saints. 

A loss margin of 49 points was the fake result, creating plenty of grudges. The Saints (probably) would have won the Reserves Premiership, and it would have been St Kilda FC's first Reserves Premiership Cup. So the tease was on after that.

People who knew it was wrong did that annoying thing of looking thoughtful and thinking, "Y'know, that may have been a close game, too...." thing.

1987: An Absolute Outrage. Corrected, but not Announced Yet

St Kilda was partially resurrected as a club before the 1987 season, due to a generous response from horrified creditors owed money by an organisation that had been terrorised to complete financial ruin. 

Most creditors approached were horrified, and were very helpful in taking a small settlement of cents in the dollar to wipe off the clubs debts to allow it to continue to operate and not be liquidated. The other teams were not very helpful officially, generally speaking, to put it mildly. When The Saints started 1987 almost debt free, thanks to a settlement with very generous past and listed players owed wages, things were much more stable.

The team hired Premiership Captain Darrel Baldock (1966) and started long term planning again, with some clever recruiting decisions. The attempt to destroy St Kilda FC to allow a Perth based team in (run by organized crime from Adelaide) had resulted in the League's projectile corruption vomit reaching full force. 

The league pretended St Kilda FC finished last four years in a row in 1983, 84, 85, & 86, when things were at their absolute worst. Despite that not actually being true in ANY of those years. 

The Saints did NOT really finish last in any year in the 1980's. MF means something other than....

In 1987 the Season started with another spray from the corruption pumps, as a response to new long term planning almost debt free. The entry of a team from Perth (West Coast) anyway, despite the non-destruction of St Kilda FC, and Queensland (Brisbane, better described as Hawthorn 2) happened pre-season. The "we'll finish them off later, do whatever you want to St Kilda" attitude was their excuse for a reflex action. St Kilda played Geelong at Moorabbin in Round 1, and won comfortably. S

So they pretended the Saints lost by 1 point. Baldock was coach.

In Round 3 St Kilda FC was credited with its first win for the season, and became the first team to defeat the Brisbane Bears in a game for premiership points. "Hawthorn 2" casually hit Moorabbin for the game thinking "St Kilda were crap that finished last the previous 4 years in a row", after winning their first two games in their history, and lost by 50 points. It was a shock, apparently, emblazoned deeply into their memory.

St Kilda was illegally denied wins due to fixed games against Geelong (Moorabbin), North (Night Game MCG), Collingwood (Victoria Park), and Carlton (Princes Park by a fake 1 point). At the end of Round 14 The Saints were 7 & 7, but the vomit on the standings said 3 & 11. 

The team then won 4 credited games in a row, and Coach Baldock then had a stroke. He was hospitalized and a caretaker took the job for the rest of the season. The Saints played Footscray at Moorabbin, who "denied trying to kill Baldock after talking him into taking the job".

The Saints were listed as winning by 3 points, for a 5th win in a row. Really 12 & 7, the standings said 8 & 11. The Saints went 1 & 2 to finish the Season, a remarkable 13 & 9 from a fake last the previous year, after being seemingly minutes from liquidation. The standings said 9 & 13, though.

St Kilda FC qualified for the Finals in 4th, and should have played North in the Elimination Final, and won. Setting up a 1st Semi versus Sydney, at Waverley Park. But they pretended The Saints finished 10th. Their casual remarks that it was "too uplifting, too poignant, and too sentimental" for them to cope with anyway, wasn't the end of it there.

The Reserves Team went 15 & 7 in the Home & Away Season, rolling through to finish the season with six wins in a row, and won the Reserves Premiership at the MCG versus Carlton. Who were mercilessly teasing that it could be The Saints first ever Reserves Premiership Cup.

So they fixed the Grand Final. And that is official. The excuse was that Carlton had to play in the main Game later on as well, and it was "unfair" that they couldn't play the players selected for the seniors game later in the day against Hawthorn. 

A larger crowd than usual went to he MCG early for the game, and were interested early, until the incorrect score vomit started spraying. The outrage was intense, real, and it wasn't St Kilda FC supporters because nobody could get a ticket. Supporters were told that The Saints Grand Final Ticket Allocation had "been sold" for money before the team qualified for the Reserves Grand Final.

It was ugly. As each of the 7 incorrect scores were payed for Carlton during the game, the observers there got louder and more outraged, with the ground filling with people being described the details. The audio for the television broadcast was abandoned for a fake audio track, that sounded like it was on repeat, and out of context. 

Carlton were incorrectly presented with the Reserves Premiership after pretending to win by 20 points (1972 PF Style), despite losing a classic by 15. People expressing their outrage at the abhorrently obvious corruption did not stop venting their feelings about it until after the Senior Grand Final was over later in the day. Apparently, it was a bit scary, but not violent. The TV broadcast of the senior Grand Final had a fake audio track through it, because the expressions of outrage were that loud, and NOT from St Kilda FC supporters generally speaking.

Some of those people have never been to a game again.

In 2022, the result was finally overturned with match fixing convictions secured as part of an investigation into the 1972 Preliminary Final that St Kilda FC won by 15, but Carlton pretended to win by 16. 

The same people who fixed the 1972 Preliminary Final for the two disqualified Grand Final teams that year were also responsible for the fixed 1987 Reserves Grand Final. As if it was an organized crime reunion "Oceans Slack-Jaw" experience. 

After receiving sentences for fixing the 1972 Preliminary Final against The Saints, they were then convicted of the fixed 1987 Reserves Grand Final as well, and given more jail time. Most (if not all) of them were already in jail anyway. It involved people who now have new teams of their own to follow, aligned with each separate organized crime ring "temporarily allied" for the 1972 & 1987 thing. The excuse for violations in 1987 of at least 5 games including the Reserves Grand Final was: "A Finals win plus a Reserves Premiership was a too uplifting and emotionally poignant club resurgence, and would have made the Saints too much money".

St Kilda FC 1987 Reserves Premiers (officially).

St Kilda FC 1999 Reserves Premiers Officially:

1999. St Kilda FC qualified for Finals 7 out of 10 seasons in the 90's, but only played in them 4 times (91, 92, 97, 98 - the first three yielding Premierships after DSQ's officially). 

In 1999 a tough year saw the team the victim of an (allegedly) fixed Ansett Cup Semi-Final against Port Adelaide. It was upgraded to Joint Ansett Cup Premiers officially in 2022-23 due to doping DSQ's. St Kilda FC scraped into the 1999 Finals, but did not play in them, after being in the top 4 mid season with Tim Watson as Coach.

Then the Reserves team was next up. The Reserves won the Minor Premiership with a 17 & 5 Season on the official standings, and won through to the Grand Final with wins over the Demons and Footscray. 

Essendon also won through to the Reserves Grand Final. They lost the Senior Preliminary Final by 1 point (listed score) to Carlton.

Essendon decided to illegally "cheer themselves up". They selected plenty of players who "felt like playing", who were ineligible to play in the Reserves Grand Final due to participation rules, in their selected side, that had played in the PF loss to the Blues in the AFL. 

They selected them knowing they weren't eligible and submitted the team, asking the AFL to "let them play in the Reserves Grand Final and pretend to win the Premiership, to cheer them up after their Preliminary Final loss". St Kilda FC selected an eligible team.

The AFL said "No". It was a little controversial at the time, and all over the media quietly. The AFL told Essendon to submit an eligible line-up. Essendon re-submitted the line-up with ineligible players in it, and asked the AFL to let them play. 

After a thoughtful pause by the AFL, as if considering some sort of offer, the answer was a sort of "Ummmm. Mmmmm, Ummmm. No, NO!". Essendon were unhappy.

Essendon pretended to win the Reserves Grand Final comfortably by over 50 points, and half their squad smelt profusely bad during play. They fake celebrated on the MCG with the trophy, teasing all the while that St Kilda FC "didn't have a Reserves Premiership Cup yet, and it was the last AFL Reserves Grand Final ever". 

In September 2022 during the new tests doping blitz, Essendon were disqualified from the 1999 Reserves Grand Final for systematic doping amongst around half their team for the GF, and the Premiership awarded to St Kilda FC. St Kilda's 5th Reserves Premiership. Stephen Milne played for Essendon on the day and was not one of the players who failed sample re-testing in the 2020's. St Kilda FC recruited him based on his Essendon Reserves form, which Essendon didn't mind as him getting the ball seemed like "a great way to tease St Kilda FC about the 1999 Reserves Grand Final". He went on to become one of The Saints greatest ever players.

St Kilda FC Reserves Premiers 1942-43, 61, 87, & 99 officially.

The court orders are on the public record, even if the AFL hasn't got around to announcements and presentations, yet. People's compulsive liar assumption that "all disqualifications are sort of like classified information until the league announces it in a press conference or media release", is very incorrect. A written item on the website labelled "AFL Statement" is enough.

In 2000 St Kilda FC entered the old VFA (under the new name VFL) as the new second tier with a team called "St Kilda Reserves". The team qualified for the Finals and was sprayed with two fake finals losses that were really wins. Faked loses to Sandringham by 1 point, and Geelong by 5 points, saw The Saints fake crash out of the Finals. It was the only season of the "St Kilda Reserves" by name in the old VFA (new VFL) as an entity.

Their excuse for the faked losses was that "St Kilda would have won its first trophy of the VFA Premiership Cup variety ever in its history" if it had won the Premiership. 

St Kilda FC won 1 trophy prior to the formation of what is now called the AFL. The 1876 Challenge Cup, which saw St Kilda FC promoted to the top division in the VFA at the time. 

The trophy, highlighted below, rusted to pieces leaving only the base and a rusty shard, extremely quickly. The highlighted flag used in 1876 was inspiration for the club crest, first used officially on the playing vest in 1933 (approximately because I haven't checked the dates, but put on the playing vest during the club's 60th anniversary year of establishment).