But for those of us born before the birth of Oasis and Nirvana, this year's worthy wooden spooner Carlton represent a much darker era, and I'm not taking the Twilight series, yo!
I am not about to pass comments; I am going to let the facts do the speaking and they're not pretty reading:
In the first 120 games between St Kilda and Carlton, Carlton won 100, 2 were draws.
Before we won our first premiership in 1966 we managed only 23 wins against the boys from north of the Yarra.
In the fifteen seasons between the post-Allan Jeans and pre-Kenny Sheldon eras our wins against the Blues were locked on 26 or 27 wins against them. Our winning ratio against them at this time was 15% - possibly the all-time show stopping worst in the history of professional sport.
Until 1989 our highest ever score against the latte-sippers from Lygon Street was an embarrassing 114 points kicked in the 1970s, a score equalled or bettered by the Blues a remarkable 37 times! Our top ten highest scores against Carlton at the time were all losing scores
Until Kenny Sheldon coached us our greatest ever winning margin against the powerbroking club was a very modest 53 points, from our premiership year, 1966.
We only beat them 7 times at Moorabbin.
Before 1993 we had only beaten them 6 times at Princes Park, in a run going back to 1897
Between 1976 and 1983 we lost five games in a row against them at Princes Park by 100 points or more. A record.
Before 1999 we had NEVER beaten them at the MCG...
Our longest run of consecutive wins against Elliot's mob was an atrocious 3 (for perspective's sake, we are currently on a 4 in a row winning streak against the Lygon Street fashionistas).
Since the VFL competition was renamed the AFL in 1990, we have:
Bettered our highest ever score 14 times, including kicking a very decent 31 goals (196), and three scores of more than 150 points (for the sake of persepctive, against the 'Dogs, whom we have a proud record against, we have only kicked more than 150 points twice).
Bettered our greatest ever winning margin 8 times, including a highly satisfying 108 point victory, three victories by more than 15 goals, and as of last night, six by more than 10 goals. This is most satisfactory!
We've won 21 games against them in 16 years, a feat it took St Kilda FC 67 years to achieve in the 20th century.
We have won our previous 5 games unbroken against the glamour side at the MCG, the last win was by 12 goals.
Not pretty reading, but the KPIs are looking up for the Moorabbin Massive as the millenials might say.
