St Kilda's only premiership vs Doggies only premiership

saintlee · Post: # 776477Post **saintlee** » Thu 16 Jul 2009 5:16pm

It seems to me that St Kilda cops far more sh#t for having won only 1 premiership than the Western Bulldogs do....is this my imagination or do other people find this as well? And if so, why?

degruch · Post: # 776479Post **degruch** » Thu 16 Jul 2009 5:19pm

Absolutely. It probably goes hand in hand with the fact that we were the last VFL club to win one, and that the cup sits in our trophy cabinet next to 26 wooden spoons.

Mr Magic · Post: # 776480Post **Mr Magic** » Thu 16 Jul 2009 5:19pm

To starters, we've been in the Competition since its inception, Footscray only came in in 1925?

Ice Wolf · Post: # 776481Post **Ice Wolf** » Thu 16 Jul 2009 5:19pm

saintlee wrote:It seems to me that St Kilda cops far more sh#t for having won only 1 premiership than the Western Bulldogs do....is this my imagination or do other people find this as well? And if so, why?

Doggies had numerous premierships in the VFA before joining the VFL, we had none and we founded the bloody thing.

saintdooley · Thu 16 Jul 2009 5:19pm

you will find the dogs have 1 premiership in 55 years like us, but they won a fair few back from 1890-1930
they have 9 or 10, something like that.

mick13 · Post: # 776483Post **mick13** » Thu 16 Jul 2009 5:23pm

degruch wrote:Absolutely. It probably goes hand in hand with the fact that we were the last VFL club to win one, and that the cup sits in our trophy cabinet next to 26 wooden spoons.

Weren't the Hawks the last to win one?

Against us in '71?

chook23 · Post: # 776485Post **chook23** » Thu 16 Jul 2009 5:24pm

mick13 wrote:
degruch wrote:Absolutely. It probably goes hand in hand with the fact that we were the last VFL club to win one, and that the cup sits in our trophy cabinet next to 26 wooden spoons.
Weren't the Hawks the last to win one?

Against us in '71?

Hawks won in 61

saintlee · Post: # 776486Post **saintlee** » Thu 16 Jul 2009 5:25pm

mick13 wrote:
degruch wrote:Absolutely. It probably goes hand in hand with the fact that we were the last VFL club to win one, and that the cup sits in our trophy cabinet next to 26 wooden spoons.
Weren't the Hawks the last to win one?

Against us in '71?

Nope, was against Footscray in '61

perfectionist · Thu 16 Jul 2009 5:30pm

Ice Wolf wrote:...Doggies had numerous premierships in the VFA before joining the VFL, we had none and we founded the bloody thing.

Yep. The Victorian Football Association was established in 1877. The Foundation Senior clubs were Albert Park, Carlton, East Melbourne, Essendon, Geelong, Hotham, Melbourne, St. Kilda and West Melbourne.

Footscray won 9 VFA premierships. We never managed to finish in the top four. Hey, the Saints were the party club!

evertonfc · Post: # 776494Post **evertonfc** » Thu 16 Jul 2009 5:32pm

There is a part of me that in spite of our history of crap-ness, we are still on the fringes of becoming a big club and really do have a big supporter base.

It pays to party

stinger · Post: # 776539Post **stinger** » Thu 16 Jul 2009 6:22pm

saintdooley wrote:you will find the dogs have 1 premiership in 55 years like us, but they won a fair few back from 1890-1930
they have 9 or 10, something like that.

all prior to them joining the vfl bar one......

Beno88 · Post: # 776543Post **Beno88** » Thu 16 Jul 2009 6:29pm

Albeit not a foundation club, North Melbourne didn't win one until 1975.

White Winmar · Thu 16 Jul 2009 6:33pm

Doggies have only played in two grand finals, compared to our five. They've never finished on top of the ladder at the end of a season either. So there!

st.byron · Post: # 776546Post **st.byron** » Thu 16 Jul 2009 6:33pm

People give us shyte for winning so many spoons, but to me it's a miracle that the club survived. 7 out of the first 8 VFL spoons and 9 by 1910. It could so easily have gone the way of University, East Melbourne, Albert Park and West Melbourne.
We copped another 7 spoons out 13 between 1943 and 1955 and another 7 out of 12 between 1977 and 1988. The others were in 1920, 1924 and 2000.

That's 23 out of the 26 in three eras. 1897 - 1910, 1943 - 1955 and 1977 - 1988.

desertsaint · Thu 16 Jul 2009 7:02pm

I think that, despite both clubs lack of success, we register as a much bigger club. bullies don't seem to stir anyones emotions (except for their own supporters).

VietNam_Saint · Fri 17 Jul 2009 1:29am

I've mentioned this before ,, even though Doggies should never be in a position to give us stick , I love it when one does .

my mate is the same age as me ,,, I always shut him up with ,,

"We may have only won one Premiership as well ,, but at least ours was in my lifetime"

Post: # 777042Post **n1ck** » Fri 17 Jul 2009 7:41pm

Ours is also the more memorable one, as it was recorded and available to watch now on dvd.

The one point margin over Collingwood helps, too.

TriColourDisciple · Sat 18 Jul 2009 8:22pm

I thought North were the last VFL team to win a premiership. In the 1970s.
I think they entered the league at the same time as Footscray

starsign · Post: # 777536Post **starsign** » Sun 19 Jul 2009 7:30am

I recon it stinks!

Our wooden spoon collection is virtually second to none!

an just like at present ....16 zip ......and very little recognition!!

They should at least name it "the StKilda Spoon"!!!

st.byron · Post: # 778100Post **st.byron** » Sun 19 Jul 2009 10:46pm

st.byron wrote:People give us shyte for winning so many spoons, but to me it's a miracle that the club survived. 7 out of the first 8 VFL spoons and 9 by 1910. It could so easily have gone the way of University, East Melbourne, Albert Park and West Melbourne.
We copped another 7 spoons out 13 between 1943 and 1955 and another 7 out of 12 between 1977 and 1988. The others were in 1920, 1924 and 2000.

That's 23 out of the 26 in three eras. 1897 - 1910, 1943 - 1955 and 1977 - 1988.

Just looked through some other stats as well.
We lost 98 out of our first 100 games. Bloody miracle that the St.Kilda Football Club survived.

St Kilda's only premiership vs Doggies only premiership

St Kilda's only premiership vs Doggies only premiership

Re: St Kilda's only premiership vs Doggies only premiership

Re: St Kilda's only premiership vs Doggies only premiership