1991 - 1992
1997 - 1998
2004 - 2006
2008 - 2011
No matter how you look at things, there is no question that Brett Ratten and the St Kilda FC Football Department have done a remarkable job to get the team into their first finals since 2011.
It has been 9 long years for long suffering Saints members and supporters to finally see the promise of a new dawn for our team!
It may be premature for us to call this the Age of Aquarius, but the improvement in the playing list in 2020, combined with the club's stated objective to bring in one or two more experienced elite level players in 2021, indicates to me that this team is destined to stay in finals contention for at least another 4 or 5 years.
For far too long St Kilda FC has been the whipping boy of the comp, often a basket case as evident by collecting a record number of wooden spoons
This needs to change.
What needs to happen now is for the club to emulate the "big" teams in the competition, and have long term strategies in place to ensure long periods of success, in fact to ingrain this into the club's culture permanently.
Having embarked on a complete overhaul of the Football Department with Simon Lethlean, I sense that the President and his Board of Directors will not take their feet off the pedal and wlll do whatever is required to maintain the new momentum.
Win, lose or draw the upcoming Elimination Final, I am convinced that St Kilda is now on track to achieve sustained success, and 2020 is the prelude to bigger and better result in 2021 and beyond.
