To mark our 150th year, we teamed up with PURA in April to find the ultimate Sainters who bleed red, white and black.

After receiving hundreds of submissions, we whittled down the list to these lucky winners, who have each won a year's supply of PURA and a St Kilda merch pack.

Read their stories below as we celebrate Saints Say Thanks Round - a week honouring YOU, the real legends of St Kilda.

Richard Reeves

I've always had a love and passion for the Saints.

I spent nearly 10 years in the Australian Army, and on deployment to Somalia in 1993, I built a flag pole to fly my Saints flag. After about a month, the flag was torn into pieces by the wind, so I wrote to the club asking for a new flag. Thankfully, they sent me over a gift pack including a new flag which is the one in the photo (top of article).

A few years after my return from Somalia, I decided to rebuild an old Leyland Mini, and of course when it came time to choose the colour, I just couldn't decide on one, so I made it the best three colours instead. This included the interior being re-done in Saints colours.

In 1997, the AFL ran a competition to find Australia's biggest football fan, which I won, of course! Some of the prizes were tickets to the 1997 AFL Grand Final and Coca-Cola countdown football jumpers, which I have from No. 1 to No. 188. There was one for each day of the football season, and it's the jumper that Molly Meldrum is wearing below.

On the Thursday before the 1997 AFL Grand Final, I was asked to bring the car down to training and all the players signed the bonnet, which now takes pride of place in my games room.

The car was featured in The Age, appeared on A Current Affair and in the Football Record on 7 September, 1997, as well as the Grand Final edition of the Football Record which I can't find a copy of anywhere.

Rosemary De Young

My family came to Australia from Ireland when I was five. Being Irish, we loved sport, but we had to pick an AFL club (well, VFL back then actually), so we chose the Saints of course! We were living in country Victoria at the time, but we then moved to Hampton in Saints heartland, which only cemented my love for the club. Soon enough we were regulars at Moorabbin, which was a mud patch back then.

During university, I was asked by a boy to go to the 1966 Grand Final. He had two tickets, but I suggested he take my dad as he was a Saints nut. I told him there would be plenty of time for me to see the Saints win a premiership.

I thought it was so nice of him to take my dad, so I married that boy and we're still married today. I'm now 76 and through all the ups and downs, I love my players, but I hope I'm not running out of time to see that premiership. Hope springs eternal and my faith in the Saints never waivers.

Tim Astengo

I've got a 1965 BMC Morris 1100 Landcrab which I decided to spray paint in the Saints colours to get through the challenges of lockdown.

I use it for non-competitive rallies and take it each year to the Rylstone Classic in New South Wales. I drive it all the way from Melbourne and we're the only ones from Victoria who take part in the rally, so we're proudly repping the Saints colours. The car is definitely a talking point and turns a lot of heads.

I turned 30 this year and still use my childhood Stewart Loewe footy locker money box for coins!

Don Portway

You won't find a more passionate Sainter in the land than me!

As a youngster, I made sure I played junior footy in Canberra for Ainslie, who wore the same colours as the Saints.

In 1970, I was billeted in Bentleigh with a St Kilda trainer. He'd take me to training at Moorabbin and I was lucky enough to share a locker room at times with some of the 1966 premiership heroes.

When it came to the exit song for my wedding, I made sure it was the St Kilda theme song.

Three sons later, we're all Saints supporters who live in hope and support the club through all the ups and downs.