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Universal Kangaroos
 Starting with the Universal Kangaroos, The Kangaroos, North Melbourne or just plain Kangaroos, North or even the Shinboners whatever you want to call them. Of the other AFL clubs, they are the only mob to follow us and change their legitimate name.
I would strongly advise any Universal Kangaroos fan that does not have it, to go out and buy the club’s official history book. ‘The North Story’ is its name and was written by Father Gerard Dowling. This book was published in 1997 soon after North’s Premiership victory in 1996. Father Dowling’s account is well written and should be compulsory and pride of place on all Universal Kangaroos fans bookshelves at home. Perhaps if this book had of came out in 2000 we would have got Father Dowling’s views (and other people’s opinions) about changing North’s name to The Kangaroos. Would Father Dowling have had to change the name of his book from the ‘North Story’ to ‘The Kangaroos Story’?
They Universal Kangaroos supporters seem to be a happy and contented lot. They don’t appear to ever really challenge their hierarchy and their administrations through the years in particular from the early 1970’s onwards seems to run smoothly. Factions and cliques don’t seem to be a problem at Arden Street and their main and only publicised trauma surrounded some individual players in early 2002. Admittedly it was a huge and much public problem but it had nothing to do with factions, cliques or club politics.
Maybe or if there is disunity, factions or cliques they do a pretty good job of keeping it in house. The loose confederation of warring tribes description does not apply at the Universal Kangaroos unlike many other sporting and cultural organizations.
Perhaps this is because they are a small club and despite making the finals on 20 years out of the last 30 and taking part in seven Grand Finals for a return of four premierships they haven’t been able to significantly increase their supporter base. Hawthorn also had a smallish following in 1974 when North made the finals (and Grand Final) yet they have now markedly a larger support. Hawthorn did win more premierships though 7 compared to North Melbourne’s 4. Still from 1974 North have won more premierships than all Victorian teams save Carlton and Hawthorn, the equal number of Essendon and more than the combined tally of Collingwood, Geelong, Melbourne, Richmond, St Kilda and of course Western. Quite stunning success for a small club and the envy of nearly all other Victorian teams.The Kangaroos are also high up in Grand Final appearances since 1974 with eight(nine if you decide to count 1977 twice) and is only beaten by Hawthorn and equalled by Carlton, surpassing all the other Victorian teams. The Preliminary Final has been contested 14 times, that is 10 more than our four. We have not progressed beyond our 4 Preliminary Final appearances. The Kangaroos were victorious in 8 of those 14. They are definitely one of the standout teams of the last 30 years.
However despite this generation of riches, for some reason they are unable to increase their support base. No one has really found a definitive answer to this question. Some suggestions for this have been:
- Geographically disadvantaged, a small suburb sandwiched between Carlton, Essendon and Footscray.
- Their lack of premiership success between since joining the VFL in 1925 through to their first VFL Premiership in 1975. Like Footscray and 1954, it was not North Melbourne’s first premiership. They won the flag six times in the VFA 1903,1904,1910,1914,1915 and 1918. Two of those flags (1915 and 1918) were achieved without a loss during every season. Yet fifty years is a long time and every team needs their bandwagon element. Good time fans don’t choose teams that struggle and fifty years ate into picking up the glory hunters.
- Their name- North. That has been put forward by a few academics, North being quite a common name and not a unique one. It is quite bland really and doesn’t sound anything special. Many places throughout the world are known as North (like West and Western), so being different from others does not apply.
- The three clubs that joined the VFL in 1925 are disadvantaged because the others have got a 28year start on them. Richmond thus would have a 17 year start as they joined the VFL in 1908 unlike 1897 that the others did.
I’m not sure about this argument because Footscray had the highest membership in the VFL in 1933, just eight years after joining the competition.
Anyway, The Kangaroos are still an integral part of the competition and should be for at least a few more years, small following or not. Some Universal Kangaroos fans are not overly concerned with their modest following because it proves as one of their supporters explained:
- They don’t have a bandwagon support compared with other clubs. Fickle and fair weathered are adjectives never uttered to describe Kangaroos fans although it needs to be mentioned that they haven’t sunk to any sustained depths since their disastrous 1972 season. Their lowly 1984 campaign was quickly followed by a finals appearance the next year. Of their non –finals participating years except for 1984, they were not the wooden spooners or near being it. They haven’t had 3 consecutive years of being on or near the bottom like Footscray from 1980-1982 and some of St Kilda’s bad spells.
- It is easier for them to obtain finals and Grand Finals tickets. Compare this with ballots and other schemes Eastern Magpies and Western Bombers fans endure.
- There is more of a close family feel in a smaller group and you are also probably more likely to make friends with people that say at the Eastern Magpies, where some of their fans may be both directly and indirectly competing against each other ie for finals tickets.
- “Who cares about the number of fans we have, it is all about the team”. “More fans may mean the newies or bandwagon’s will get finals tickets before me”. “When we go bad they will drop off anyway”. “Quality of supporter not quantity is what matters and anyway the club is still here, small following and all.”
Can’t argue with these sentiments in particular the value for money The Kangaroos have given their supporters over the last 30 years.
The dropping of North Melbourne for the new name The Kangaroos caused a few ripples, but it didn’t reach anywhere near the same height as our schism did. I don’t recall any official opposition movement fighting to preserve the name North Melbourne like we had with the Footscray Forever Committee. It was like North Melbourne one night and in the morning they had become The Kangaroos. They lost the 1998 Grand Final and if their opponents and conquerors Adelaide had of lost their Preliminary Final a week earlier, the 1998 Grand Final would have seen North playing Western for the premiership. One quirk of that hypothetical Grand Finals is that this game would have seen West, West and Southern playing for Western against North! The first season of their new name they went on to win the flag so maybe that pacified some aggrieved fans.
Their leaving of Arden Street didn’t from my memory generate much of a song and dance either. Possibly this was because it happened quite suddenly leaving no opportunity for any action. A good trivia question is to ask who were North Melbourne’s last opponents at Arden Street? The game happened in 1985 and it was their only match at home for that year. If the suspense is killing you, well the answer was Richmond. From memory it was not specially designated as a farewell game, unlike the situation with the Eastern Magpies and ourselves. We played our last match their in 1984 and happily for us it was a crushing victory, Ian Rickman’s best ever game in Footscray colours he booted 6, Beasley got a bag as well and Chris Burton played a slashing game.
North had left Arden Street before, but quickly returned home. That was 1965 and they played at Coburg in that year. 1965 was a famous year for Coburg and not just because VFL football was played in that suburb. In December the Ronald Ryan/ Peter Walker escape took place and which resulted in the death of warder George Hodson and then later in Ronald Ryan’s execution in February 1967. One season only at Coburg as in 1966 they were domiciled back at Arden Street. This was not a unanimous decision to return to North Melbourne. Although the Coburg move was deemed unsuccessful a proposal to play home matches at the Junction Oval came from the St Kilda cricket club who were keen to fill the void of the St Kilda football club moving to Moorabin. Two of North’s vice-presidents supported the Junction Oval move and resigned from the club when the pro-Arden Street faction won the day. The Junction Oval was to see senior football again when Fitzroy moved there for the 1970 season. They had been sharing Carlton’s Princes Park from 1967 after leaving their traditional Brunswick Street home. Their exit from the Junction Oval at the conclusion of the 1984 season nearly mirrors North’s final exit from Arden Street. Save the Richmond game of 1985, North Melbourne basically finished with Arden Street in 1984.
Arden Street was one of my favourite grounds and I even attended a charity game there in 1989 between the Collingwood and North Melbourne players of the1977 Grand Final. In 1989 the ground was still roughly the same as my previous visit in 1984. Nowadays the ground is vastly altered, hard to believe that League Football was ever played there when you drive past although that can be the same for many other old grounds now as well.
Please allow me to digress and go off on a tangent about my memories of North’s home. My attendance at Arden Street was for Footscray games of 1978,1979,1980,1983 and 1984 as we played North Melbourne at Waverley in 1981 and 1982. I went to a couple of non-Footscray games there as well – both in 1982. The first one was for a game against Melbourne and the other one against Richmond. The day that North Melbourne played Melbourne, we were to play the Swans in Sydney the next day so I wasn’t missing a Footscray game. The Richmond game was different as I went with some people from interstate that wanted to watch the tigers. I am happy that I went with them not just for seeing Malcolm Blight take some screamers in the second quarter. I missed on that September day a home game against Essendon and subsequently a 146 point obliteration. I hated being an absentee from any Footscray games (especially home ones), however a few points shy of a 25 goal annihilation is something I could live with.
My memories of the Melbourne game was sitting directly behind the Melbourne Cheer Squad with a boy I went to school with. He was an Essendon supporter and sporting a duffle coat with Merv 4 Neagle on the back. We were sitting right behind the Melbourne cheer squad and listening to the horrific abuse they gave one of the goal umpires in the first quarter. He didn’t award what the Demon cheer squad regarded as a goal and one woman leaned over the fence and informed this goal umpire that “Your so ugly your mother threw you out when you were born” It was rather a controversial decision because soon another Melbourne supporter, not from their cheer squad but nearby also launched a tirade although his consisted of conspiracy theories. This chap a fellow with a beard, got his timing perfect, as there was a lull in the crowd for his speech that went on for about 3 minutes and he had everyone within earshot’s (and that was a sizeable proportion of the overall small crowd) undivided attention. His party political went something along the lines of ‘The games stuffed it’s rigged and we are paying good money to stand here and cop this garbage and its typical of the Liberal party and all that you lot stand for with your born to rule mentality, you do nothing for the working class” Well after he finished this Melbourne bloke received a rapturous reception and those who were sitting stood up to award him with a standing ovation.
The Melbourne fans weren’t the only ones down on the umpiring because the next day the North Melbourne President Bob Ansett appeared on World of Sport to vent his frustration with the men in white and even raised the possibility of an interchange bench for umpires. He was filmed off camera speaking with one of the umpires before it was pointed out to him that he was now ‘on air’. He quickly smiled and shook hands with this umpire who had been there in the studio for I assume the ‘What’s Your Decision’ segment of World of Sport.
Back to the Footscray games at Arden Street, we were victorious for three of those 1978,1979 and 1984.The 1979 game sticks well in my memory for the unrelenting hooting of Gary Dempsey from the outer on the Macaulay Road side of the ground. Every time Dempsey even went near the ball (and being a ruckman it was most of the time) the entire outer booed and jeered him all day. We really enjoyed that win, more so not for beating the previous year’s Grand Final participants but to show our annoyance with Dempsey who had left to play in a premiership team. He never did win a premiership medallion nor even play in a Grand Final but at least he received a higher wage at North.
What I liked about Arden Street was that they had two areas where you could avoid the rain. One was behind the goals at the Arden Street end (the right hand end goal on television) and in the outer on Macauley Road, directly opposite the centre square. Tin roofs always made the atmosphere better as well as eliminating the need for umberellas. I liked Arden Street and miss that ground.
The other point with North Melbourne was the changing of their nickname from the Shinboners to the Kangaroos. The Kangaroos nickname took effect from the 1950 season. That was the year that North made their first Grand Final as a VFL club and North’s first Grand Final since their loss to us in the1919 VFA Grand Final. They lost that game and it was 25 years later that they claimed their first VFL Premiership and their seventh flag overall and first since their VFA triumph of 1918. The football club formerly known as North Melbourne has been around since 1869. They are into their 136th year of existence yet the Kangaroos nickname is only 55 years of age. For 89 of their 136 years Kangaroos was not associated with the royal blue and white. Like Bulldogs it has taken over and now runs the show and also like Bulldogs it was NOT the nickname from day one of their existence.
It seems that the Universal Kangaroos fans are more tolerant of their lot than we at Western. Their appeared to be a bigger political brawl over the move to and away from Coburg, much more than dropping the name from North Melbourne to the Kangaroos. They have had more success than us since 1996(and also since 1973) and winning the flag, in their first season as The Kangaroos, would have definitely helped the cause of those who wanted the North Melbourne name ditched. Lyrics from the official theme song were altered so as to delete references of North Melbourne. Recently this has been overturned and the words North and Melbourne re introduced.
Despite having my own personal opinions on matters relating to the non- Footscray teams, it is not FNWB’s place to lecture other clubs on what their supporters and administration should be doing. Sometimes though I will offer comments and suggestions and with the Universal Kangaroos I applaud them for putting North Melbourne back in to their official theme song and recognising those two words. I wish my club would do the same and end this boycott of Footscray the word. It isn’t that hard is it? - Sons of the Scray / West: That made old Footscray’s name / The team of the Mighty West.
I wonder if they will ever return to being North Melbourne. There have been strong rumours that they are indeed strongly considering it. Then rumours are precisely just that-rumours. I would also be interested if one day some aggrieved North loyalists produced a website:
North Melbourne Not The Kangaroos
If not that title maybe something similar. We can only wait and see.
“Hit the Boundary Line”
The Southern Saints or St Kilda have moved home quite a few times and there was angst with each move although some more than others. The leaving of the Junction Oval to play at Moorabbin for the1965 season created major turmoil and the more recent 1992 decision to play home games at Waverley from 1993 was also controversial and divisive. The decision to leave Waverley for the brand new Docklands Stadium in 2000 was seen by some Southern Saints fans, as another annoying move after just becoming settled at Waverley.
For all the chopping and changing and in particular the move away from the Junction Oval at the end of the 1964 season to Moorabbin in 1965, they always kept St Kilda despite the fact that Moorabbin is miles and miles from St Kilda and Waverley is even further away. Initially it seemed they would drop St Kilda and adopt Moorabbin or combine both St Kilda and Moorabbin in their name. They are still St Kilda and probably always will be.
Like the Universal Kangaroos and the Father Dowling book ‘The North Story’ all Southern Saints fans should have the copy of the official St Kilda history book, written by the late Jules Feldmann and Russell Holmesby. Their brilliantly named tribute to St Kilda “The Point Of It All” provides some of the background to the departure from the Junction Oval. It was by no means a unanimous decision and many Saints fans were aghast.
These paragraphs are directly from pages 167 and 168 of The Point Of It All (TPOIA).
But there were wider issues evident in these opening lines from the 1963 annual report: “In summing up, your committee considers that the present method of distribution of football revenue is archaic and farcical.”
Those words gave a hint of what was to come for a club tired of having the bulk of its profit from match receipts “siphoned off” to the ground manager, St Kilda Cricket Club. The only way for St Kilda to beat this arrangement was to secure its own ground. In 1960,the idea of moving to a ground such as Elsternwick Park had been aborted when the St Kilda Cricket Club had promised to spend 7000 pounds on room improvements at the Junction Oval and it was announced that the football club would stay there for 10 years.
Despite attracting record crowds, the club was losing vast amounts of money it needed to compete on the escalating inter-state recruiting market. Late in March 1964, St Kilda dropped a bombshell by announcing it would move to the Moorabbin ground in 1965 and become the ground manager in its own right.
One of the original conditions of occupancy discussed on March 17,1964, at St Kilda’s committee meeting was: “ The Moorabbin Football Club shall amalgamate with the St Kilda Football Club and the club shall be known as the St Kilda-Moorabbin Football Club for a period of 10 years, and after that period shall be known as the Moorabbin Football Club approval (providing is obtained from club members).
On April 28, the president reported :”The condition originally imposed by the Moorabbin Council, namely that the name of the club be changed, has now been withdrawn.” A long forgotten rule in the club’s constitution stated that the name could not be changed unless three-quarters of the members voted for it. The law had been framed in the1980’s when St Kilda amalgamated with Prahran.
Veteran ex-player and coach Wells Eicke resigned from the committee in protest. Some members also doubted the 100,000 pounds loan the Moorabbin council had promised would be enough to make the necessary improvements in facilities at Moorabbin. Then VFA PRESIDENT Alec Gillon initiated a motion that suspended Moorabbin from the association for a year.
He sparks that flew in the days after the announcement ignited into an inferno when a member, John Sist took out a Supreme Court writ against the committee to prevent the club moving to Moorabbin or changing its name. President Graham Huggins hit back through an issue of leaflets at the final practice, re-iterating that the club’s name would not be changed unless members voted for it.
It is still to be changed to Moorabbin. It definitely won’t be now as they left Moorabbin at the conclusion of the 1992 season. I well remember that saga and how a vote was held on whether St Kilda should remain at Moorabbin or move to Waverley.
The Point Of It All was published in early 1992 and sadly one of the co-authors Jules Feldmann died not long after it hit the shelves. The Moorabbin/Waverley issue arose after this book was published. I often wonder what would have happened if this book had of came out in 1993 as no doubt it could have given a detailed account of the Moorabbin/ Waverley issue.
 The actual vote did take place although some people had their doubts about aspects of its validity and whether it was truly one- man (woman) one vote. The club administration was pro-Waverley as was the then coach Ken Sheldon. The official resistance to leaving Moorabbin was led by a chap named Les Heimann.
Things seemed to conspire against those who wanted St Kilda to remain at Moorabbin. The vote was held in the week after a home game at Moorabbin. St Kilda won all of their Moorabbin matches in 1992 bar one and that defeat was against us. It so happened that the vote was arranged to occur just after the Footscray game. It’s worth pondering what might have been if the vote was held after any other of St Kilda’s home games that season. In particular the Brisbane fixture from May 23rd that saw the then nicknamed Bears endure a 108 point thrashing in front of a happy and satisfied Moorabbin crowd. The Footscray loss was St Kilda’s second consecutive defeat, having fallen to Essendon on the MCG a week earlier. All hypothetical but if the Essendon loss had have been at Waverley for instance rather than the MCG, would this have had any bearing on the vote? The same again can be argued obviously with the Footscray defeat- if that happened elsewhere(in particular Waverley) or indeed if St Kilda had of won that game. Footscray had many injuries and were without crucial players and the result was great for us, but disastrous for the Saints who were clearly expected to win at home against and an under strength Footscray. I wonder how much of this may have influenced the vote?
It was a very emotional issue and not what St Kilda needed at that time because they were having a good season like the year before. In 1991 they made the finals for the first time since 1973 and 1992 was expected to be a further march forward.
Sadly for the Moorabbin stalwarts, those who wanted Waverley as St Kilda’s home claimed victory in that vote. I well remember Les Heimann’s comments on television afterwards where he stated that the matter was now closed, “We are St Kilda first and Moorabbin second” There was one Moorabbin game left on the roster and perhaps fittingly and ironically it was against Fitzroy who moved in to the Junction Oval in 1970 five years after St Kilda had voted to leave it for Moorabbin. St Kilda’s last home match with Fitzroy was to be a farewell to their home from 1965. They won this game to send off Moorabbin in fine style and also gain the four premiership points they desperately needed to make the finals. They did take part in the September action beating Collingwood at Waverley, before losing one week later at their new home to us.
I went to Moorabbin for eight games all Footscray ones- 1977,1978,1979,1984,1985,1986,1990 and 1992. I missed 1982 when Barry Breen playing his 300th game inspired the Saints to a close victory. I am still crook on missing the game a year later when we came from 39 points down to snatch a 6 point victory despite kicking against the breeze in that last quarter. I wasn’t there to see Lockett boot his 100th goal for the season in 1987 either.
We won there in 1977,1979,1986,1990 and 1992 and the game I missed in 1983. Our only other win there was our first in 1974 when I was in kindergarten. It took nine years for us to succeed there, a very similar situation to the Sydney Cricket Ground when we finally triumphed in 1990 eight years after our first Swans game in 1982 and 10 years when taking into account we played and were destroyed to the tune of 122 points by North Melbourne in a one off game in 1980. Perth is the same, 1995 our first success there.
Moorabbin had a great atmosphere and for my money was the loudest and noisiest of all the suburban grounds. What helped enormously was the Grandstand that stretched uninterrupted entirely across one side of the ground. I always wished that we at Footscray could have linked the John Gent and Whitten Stands together even if only the roofs, to trap and bounce back the noise, but my father on asking that question for me, was told that it was structurally impossible. I also wish that I had of gone there for a non-Footscray game just to further take in the atmosphere and not worry about the result, maybe stand in front of the grandstand rather than the outer where I always stood. Moorabbin’s bad point was that there was no shelter in the outer. If it rained you copped it but then that is no different to Kardinia Park and that is what you endured at the Junction Oval. I still stick to my beliefs that the visiting fans at Footscray were better looked after than at most away grounds. The away fans got the roof yet us Footscray fans outside of the Whitten and Gent stands copped the rain. The standing up was no problem for me, I always preferred to stand and would rather stand in the rain than sit in it
In 1985 St Kilda had to win their final game of the season to prevent the unwanted distinction of going through an entire season without a home victory. They were playing the team who were to finish second at the conclusion of the home and away season- Footscray. Despite being 21 points up at three quarter time, we seemed to be thinking of next week and collapsed to see St Kilda swamp us in the last quarter and avoid that unenviable stigma. It was the Saints third win for the season the other two against Fitzroy. 1985 was a disastrous year for the Saints but they at least did well against the F teams as we only beat them at home by 21 points. Ten years later history repeated itself although that time it was at the newly renamed Whitten Oval. The last game of the season Footscray playing St Kilda, the Saints not playing in the finals Footscray securely in there. Whilst 1985 was a close game, 1995 was in St Kilda’s possesion at half time. Losing your last game before the finals is not good preparation, I had been told and that viewpoint was right because in 1985 Hawthorn done us by 93 points and in 1995 the Geelong final was over at quarter time.
Waverley was decided by the AFL commission in the late 1990’s that it’s time was up. This was despite the valiant efforts of many people who desired its retention as a venue for AFL football. In 1999 the Southern Saints like the Eastern Hawks had played their final home (and non-home) games there. For 2000 the Southern Saints joined the Western Bombers and ourselves in claiming the Docklands Stadium as their new home. It was a mighty task convincing the St Kilda membership to leave Moorabbin for the gold dust of Waverley. Seven years later Waverley Park was gone and now in 2005, it is in an advanced state of housing development.
There have been some calls for Moorabbin to be recalled. Former St Kilda player, test cricketer and board member Simon O’Donnell was one who seemed willing to consider moving back to Moorabbin. Present President Rod Butrress did not completely rule out the Moorabbin option for some games against interstate teams.
The main stumbling block presently for those willing on a Moorabbin homecoming is ironically St Kilda’s great success at the Docklands Stadium. They seem to have made it more of a home ground than both the other main tenants Western and the Bombers. Here are many varied reasons for this and perhaps the best one is that they are plainly a good side and win anywhere anyway?
Wherever they have played their home matches, St Kilda has always been their name. The Kilda part of their name is only ever used in conjunction with the saint word. I have never heard, read or seen anyone describe the red, white and black team as the Kildans or the Kilda’s or heard during games “Come on Kilda”, “Come on Kildans” or even-“Carn the Killers” (Maybe it’s a good idea that I definitely haven’t heard that last one).
Leaving homes has not been a smooth process for St Kilda down the years. By going to Moorabbin however St Kilda had the massive advantage of the fertile fields of the southern suburbs of Melbourne, to plough alone. They obviously would have picked up new supporters from out that way who did not have a local VFL team to follow. It was also stated in TPOIA ON page 173 :
There was considerable evidence to support the committee’s claim that it was taking the club to the heart of its supporter base, as up to 75 per cent of members in 1964 lived south of Elsternwick, while only one player came on the senior list was recruited from the City of St Kilda. Of the others, eight came from the country teams and 17 from southern areas such as Hampton, Sandringham, Cheltenham and Moorabbin.
Despite the affection many of their fans had for Moorabbin, one of their all time greats- Harold Bray claimed years later that they should never have left the Junction Oval. There would be others who would have agreed.
 Unlike The Kangaroos and Western they have not changed their name. If they had of switched to Moorabbin and dumped St Kilda, no doubt the goodwill of many St Kilda locals to accepting the club moving to Moorabbin would have been lost and their supporter base (both dormant and active) would be nowhere near the size it is. By keeping St Kilda as their name they maintained links with their history as well as gaining the support of potential members in their new area.
I understand that St Kilda had a different theme song years ago from watching a video. If it wasn’t the official club song it still appears near the beginning of St Kilda’s history Video/ DVD “Heaven and Hell” It was to the tune of “I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside” and it is sung as background music to highlights of the game at the Junction Oval against Geelong on 24th August 1963 on the ‘Heaven and Hell’ DVD. The words are something along the lines of:
Oh I do like to be beside the seaside Oh I do like to be beside the sea
And down at the Junction there’s the football ground
And that’s where the Saints all hang around
So lets give three cheers for old St Kilda,
For this year the premiers they may be
Though it’s not yet in the bag, We’ve got hopes of winning the flag
Beside the seaside, beside the sea
Though it’s not yet in the bag, We’ve got hopes of winning the flag
Beside the seaside, beside the sea
I reckon this was quite good, and although I may not have got those lyrics 100% accurate I believe St Kilda should seriously consider re –introducing it, well perhaps at least playing this as their second verse after a victory rather than going on with ‘When The Saints Go Marching in for ages and ages. Perhaps swap the word Junction with Docklands?
I’m not sure as to where St Kilda should call home and it probably isn’t my business to give a judgement on that topic.
For the name issue however and for all their moving around Mebourne, I will give this opinion. It was never changed away from St Kilda, and never modified as in St. Kilda-Moorabbin or any other suggestion. They have remained St Kilda.
This they got 100% right.
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