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There are some interesting Richmond vs. St Kilda statistics as follows:
- After Melbourne and Richmond both played finals in 2018, Richmond & St Kilda have now gone the longest without playing in the same finals series. The Saints and Tigers were last in the same finals series in 1973.
- Richmond, which entered the VFL in 1908 has met all of the 8 sides already in the league at that stage in the Grand Final, with the exception of St. Kilda.
- The Saints and Tigers have met in finals games only twice, in 1939 and 1971.
- These teams played the last game in which a side was kept goal-less, St Kilda beating Richmond 12.19-91 to 0.8-8 at the Junction Oval in 1961, unbelievably on a fine and sunny day.
- In an early VFL game in Sydney in 1980, St Kilda jumped Richmond and led by over 5 goals in the first quarter. The Tigers ended up winning 34.18-222 to 11.4-70.
- Ian Stewart won Brownlow Medals for both St Kilda and Richmond.
- In 1983, St Kilda thrashed Richmond by 75 points, the biggest ever win by a wooden spoon team. This was beaten 4 years later by the bottom team Richmond, which beat St Kilda by 76 points in 1987.
- Richmond and St Kilda played the last Anzac Day clash before Essendon vs Collingwood became the fixture for that day, Richmond thumping the Saints by 42 points in 1994.
- St Kilda's premiership coach of 1966 Alan Jeans later coached Richmond for one unsuccessful season in 1992. Richmond's 1980 premiership coach Tony Jewell coached the Saints in 1983-1984, for two wooden spoons, before returning to the Tigers, where he coached them to the 1987 wooden spoon. Danny Frawley, a former captain of the Saints, coached Richmond in 2000-2004, delivering the Tigers last place in 2004.