A 75-point belting from former Launceston co-tenant St Kilda brought a run of 19 consecutive victories at UTas Stadium to a crushing end.

Numerous records were established, none of which make enjoyable reading for the 2013-15 premiers.

The 19.16 (130) to 8.7 (55) thrashing was comfortably the Hawks’ largest losing margin in their adopted state.

St Kilda racked up their highest score in Launceston, easily topping the 13.17 (95) in torrential conditions against the Bulldogs in 2003.

And only a Jack Gunston goal on the final siren prevented Hawthorn equalling their lowest ever score of 7.7 (49) at the venue – which coincided with their last loss to the Saints in 2009.

The last Launceston defeat, to a rampant Sydney side en route to the 2012 premiership, witnessed Adam Goodes’ 300th appearance and this clash claimed a similar milestone in Nick Riewoldt’s 700th goal.

It was to be one of many highlights for St Kilda fans who made up an impressive percentage of the 15,571 crowd.

Riewoldt would finish on four goals while Tim Membrey contributed three, as did the impressive Josh Bruce although his 50th consecutive game will be best remembered for a candidate for worst miss of all time when he somehow hit a post trotting into an empty goal.

A new-look Mav Weller kicked two popular home-state 50-metre bombs while even defender Dylan Roberton could claim multiple goal-kicker status.

To say the Saints marginally edged the first half would be like saying Donald Trump is marginally dangerous.

By quarter-time, they already had the top seven possession-getters but frustratingly only led by 10 points.

The second quarter followed a similar theme until the breaks started to go the visitors’ way and for a team that had run out through a banner paraphrasing Don McLean’s American Pie, the half-time air was indeed sweet perfume.

Misplaced Hawthorn passes were becoming almost as commonplace as uncontested St Kilda marks inside 50 as Alan Richardson’s men went from double their opponents’ score at half-time to more than treble at three-quarter time.

In the week of Anzac Day, the leadership diagram on the AFL website which had looked like a series of trenches since the opening shot, suddenly resembled the edge of a vast crater courtesy of seven unanswered goals.

​Tom Mitchell’s 35 touches and two goals against his old team from big Ben McEvoy were the slim picking consolations for the humiliated Hawks.​