St Kilda played its earliest games on a patch of ground known as the Alpaca Paddock, near what is now the St Kilda Railway Station.

The peculiar name derives from St Kilda Council’s earlier attempt to raise alpacas in the area as a commercial enterprise. The fact the fledgling Saints were able to lay claim to the small, grassy plain gives enough of an indication as to how the alpaca venture fared.

Alpaca Paddock was a stone’s throw away from the club’s future home of Junction Oval, and a short walk from Young’s Hotel where the club was first founded in 1873.

An agreement was struck with Moorabbin Council and on the opening day of the 1965 VFL Season, the Saints met Collingwood in their first game at their new Linton Street home to a 51,000-strong crowd. That record crowd has never been beaten.

The tears ran freely when St Kilda played its last AFL game at Moorabbin in 1992, but football was breathed back into the hallowed turf with the introduction of the Saints’ AFLW side in 2020, as well as sporadic practice matches.

Although falling into disrepair after the club moved its training base to Seaford in 2011, the beloved ground was given a multi-million-dollar revitalisation in 2018, going under the new name of RSEA Park.

The modern-day home for the modern-day game. St Kilda had another move when they agreed to play home games at the newly built Docklands Arena from 2000 as stadium football became the new precedent.

The name may have changed from Colonial Stadium, to Telstra Dome, to Etihad Stadium to Marvel Stadium, but St Kilda fans nonetheless adopted their new residence.

When the Saints were on the charge, the rolling thunder from the grandstand was still as strong as it had ever been on the great days at Moorabbin and the Junction.

The red, white and black were on the move again at the beginning of the 2010s, moving away from the then-rundown Moorabbin into its new facility at Seaford.

While the Linen House Centre never saw any on-field action for Premiership Points, the venue became the new training and administration centre for the club for several years.

St Kilda returned to Moorabbin – now redeveloped into RSEA Park – in 2018, with the Linen House Centre planned to be remodelled by the Saints and Frankston City Council into the Healthy Futures Hub for community as of 2023.