The round 14 AFL match between the St Kilda Saints and the Geelong Cats at Etihad Stadium on June 25 ended very well for for the Saints. (Photo Getty Images).
As a team building steadily towards a brighter future, St Kilda will hopefully have bigger moments over the next few years than Saturday night.
But when that success does arrive, the Saints' three-point win over Geelong on a cold mid-winter's evening in late June 2016 should nonetheless be remembered as one of the more significant milestones along the way.
St Kilda have had other impressive wins in the past three seasons under Alan Richardson, but this was one which underlined not only talent and toughness, but greater maturity and resilience, not to mention their first win over the Cats since the 2010 qualifying final.