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Post: # 492363Post Oh When the Saints »

Don't shoot me for this and personally I don't want it to happen, but I'm just floating it up there ...

Our heritage is very much "St Kilda", and people identify the club as "St Kilda" - not so much the Saints.

Despite having no connection with the St Kilda area for 40+ years, we have maintained the name and identity that accompanies that.

With the move to Frankston looking fairly long-term, and a return to St Kilda itself nigh on impossible, is it an appropriate time to consider the club's name?

Would the "Bayside Saints" or somesuch similar name be appropriate? It is wider and more inclusive of the area we want to own ...

Thoughts? (I expect 5 pages of replies that say "no")


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Post: # 492367Post ausfatcat »

Maybe a return to the old club song as well?



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Post: # 492370Post Solar »

well no, the kangaroos are a good example of a club that have lost so much by changing their name. We have not played in stkilda for many a year, doesn't mean a thing.


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Post: # 492372Post my les foote »

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Post: # 492373Post Go Sretnias Go »

Change of name, ABSOLUTELY NOWAY. Why would you even think of it - to change your name and therefore brand would be suicidal.
You can change your heritage though only by success, becoming a leader through success - eg say the next five premierships and $million profits.


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Post: # 492375Post osama milne laden »

Collingwood managed to move without changing their name

Not that they ever played in that suburb anyway (address for Vic Park was always Abbotsford)


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Post: # 492381Post saint66au »

heres MY contribution to the 5 pages..

NO NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Did anyone want to rename us the Dockland Saints in 2000? Waverley Saints in 1992??


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Post: # 492385Post Brian Collis »

Might as well call them the Gayside Saints?

This move makes no difference to the interstaters who wouldn't know the difference between Cranbourne and Frankston.


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Post: # 492389Post cowboy18 »

Top idea - we should choose something for Gen Y and beyond.

I vote for SNTZ.


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Post: # 492395Post bigcarl »

Oh When the Saints wrote:Would the "Bayside Saints" or somesuch similar name be appropriate? It is wider and more inclusive of the area we want to own ...
how about the st kilda-bayside saints? your idea as not without its merit because the more closely we can identify with our new home the more local businesses will get behind us. and frankston is a big city.

we could set up the social club in fitzroy st, st kilda, and then justly lay claim to the entire bayside.

too many would be loathe to ditch the st kilda name


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Post: # 492398Post chook23 »

cowboy18 wrote:Top idea - we should choose something for Gen Y and beyond.

I vote for SNTZ.
:lol: :lol:


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Post: # 492405Post supersaints »

What about the Frankferters !!!!!!


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Post: # 492410Post cowboy18 »

The Bayside Beach Boys.


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Post: # 492413Post saintsRrising »

Thoughts...

Change the name from St Kilda to anything else and you kill off the club.


St Kilda is what give us our identity.


We don't really havea mascot and "The Saints" comes from our name St Kilda.


We are St Kilda..

We have had training bases at a number of locations and now at Frankston...we are and always have been St Kilda.

Southern Saints...Bayside saints....Gold Coast Saints....would all mean the death of St Kilda.


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Post: # 492420Post stinger »

i have given this issue my considered opinion...for all of two seconds.......no....


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Post: # 492421Post evertonfc »

We are St Kilda; four generations of my blood - dating back to the club's VFA days - tells it to be so.


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Post: # 492439Post saint66au »

Brian Collis wrote:Might as well call them the Gayside Saints?

This move makes no difference to the interstaters who wouldn't know the difference between Cranbourne and Frankston.
Your constant working of irrelevant gay references into most of your posts is childish

Youve been warned before..now its a public one. Stop it.


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Post: # 492471Post n1ck »

No, no, and no.


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Post: # 492478Post B W and R all over »

Collingwood and Hawthorn didn't feel the need to change their names.

And the Brisbane Bears were actually based on the Gold Coast for the first four years of their existence.

I do see your point, but I don't see it happening and don't want to see it happening.

Wasn't there a push about 20 years ago to name us the Southern Saints?


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Post: # 492487Post Brian Collis »

saint66au wrote:
Brian Collis wrote:Might as well call them the Gayside Saints?

This move makes no difference to the interstaters who wouldn't know the difference between Cranbourne and Frankston.
Your constant working of irrelevant gay references into most of your posts is childish

Youve been warned before..now its a public one. Stop it.
What's wrong with Gay references. I think you have the problem!


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Post: # 492494Post saintsRrising »

B W and R all over wrote:
Wasn't there a push about 20 years ago to name us the Southern Saints?
Yes...and I hated it then too


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Post: # 492522Post bigcarl »

i don't mind "st kilda-bayside saints"


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Post: # 492528Post Otiman »

I'd much prefer to keep our current name, Kangaroos and Western Bulldogs have not been too successful with their changes.

However, if there was such a change, Bayside would be my preferred option.


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