St Kilda showed its brilliant skill and goalkicking prowess to destroy Richmond by 68 points in Sunday night's round five AFL game at Telstra Dome.

The Saints slammed on eight goals in a scintillating first quarter to blow the game apart and then steadily built on their lead to win 22.15 (147) to 11.13 (79) before a bumper crowd of 49,580.

Forward pocket Stephen Milne kicked five goals for the Saints to join Richmond's Matthew Richardson at the top of the goalkicking table with 16 goals each for the season.

Richardson went goalless on Sunday night, while Saints full-forward Fraser Gehrig kicked four goals to give him 15 for the season.

While the Saints' skill was breath-taking early, they could not sustain their fierce tempo and the sting gradually slipped from the game.

The game was marred by a sickening collision of heads between Saint Matt Maguire and Richmond's Chris Hyde in the last quarter and both players appeared to have lost consciousness before they hit the turf.

Play was stopped for several minutes before trainers carried the players off.

Maguire was one of the stars of the game as a loose man in defence and continually set up attacking waves with his strong attack on the ball.

St Kilda had winners everywhere: midfielders Nick Dal Santo, Lenny Hayes and Robert Harvey starred, veterans Aussie Jones and Justin Peckett were good on their wings, ex-Tiger Aaron Fiora (two goals) was busy across half-forward and Max Hudghton did the job on Richardson.

Greg Stafford was the only shining light on Richmond's forward line and he used his height to take several contested marks and boot four goals.

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