Despite losing to premiership contender Fremantle, Braham Dabscheck believes St Kilda can cause North Melbourne, Sydney and the Eagles more than a few headaches in their runs to September.
Round 19 – St. Kilda v Fremantle: Wounded Saints Never Lost Their Halos
August 11, 2015 by 2 Comments
Round 17 – Melbourne v St. Kilda: Saints Out Tackle Demons Inside 50 (46 Points Actually!)
July 27, 2015 by 2 Comments
Not so much the Carl Ditterich Cup, but a “[fight] for the coveted 13th spot on the ladder…” (Braham Dabscheck’s words, not ours!) On a day for the footy purists, St Kilda’s continued development takes another step forward at the ‘G.
Round 16 – St.Kilda v Richmond: Maddie’s Match, Two Games of Two Halves
July 20, 2015 by Leave a Comment
It’s been about as emotional a season in the AFL as anyone can remember. With the Crows and Power memorialising Phil Walsh with their Showdown in Adelaide, the Saints and Richmond honoured Maddie Riewoldt’s fight against Aplastic Anaemia at the Docklands and launched ‘Maddie’s Vision’; a fundraising foundation set up in her name.
Bulldogs’ Perfect Bark on Bastille Day: Be Loud, Be Fair
July 15, 2015 by 1 Comment
Bob Murphy and the Bulldogs’ ‘Be Loud, Be Fair’ campaign gives Braham Dabscheck cause to reflect on the role of footy in the wider community.
Round 15 – Greater Western Sydney v St. Kilda: Saints fall short against Giants in patchy display at Spotless Stadium
July 13, 2015 by Leave a Comment
After last week’s smashing of the Bombers, the Saints faced a much sterner task against the Giants at Spotless Stadium. Braham Dabscheck analyses how the Saints fared against one of the competition’s rising stars.
Round 14 – Essendon v St. Kilda: Saints achieve perfection against defused Bombers
July 6, 2015 by 2 Comments
Saints supporter Braham Dabscheck praises the Saints for a perfect game, while remembering Phil Walsh and the tributes that the players and coaches have given to him after every game this Round.
Round 11 – St. Kilda v Melbourne: Joe Frazier’s revenge; Saints win a thrilla but it wasn’t in Manila
June 16, 2015 by 2 Comments
Braham Dabscheck finds parallels between St Kilda’s thrilling win over the Dees’ and Ali and Frazier’s 1975 classic; The Thrilla in Manilla.
Round 10 – St. Kilda v Hawthorn: Saints out pecked by the Hawks at the Dome
June 8, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Braham Dabscheck watched his Saints go down comprehensively to the the Hawks, in what he found as an intriguing game.
Round 9 – Brisbane Lions v St. Kilda: Saints out claw Lions in sunny Brisbane
June 1, 2015 by 2 Comments
‘Things are on the up’ writes Saints supporter Braham Dabscheck, as he watched his Saints put a bad first quarter behind them to win at the GABBA against the Lions.
Round 8 – St. Kilda v West Coast Eagles: Saints clobbered by high flying Eagles
May 24, 2015 by 1 Comment
As Saints supporter Baraham Dabscheck disccuses, the Saints showed improvement even though they went down to the Eagles by 53 points.
Round 7 – Adelaide v St Kilda: Saints knocked off their stride in City of Churches
May 17, 2015 by 1 Comment
Sickening injuries to players from both teams spoil the contest for Braham Dabscheck.
Round 6 – Western Bulldogs v St. Kilda: Dogged Saints dog the Dogs
May 11, 2015 by 1 Comment
It goes down as one the greatest comebacks in AFL history. On the mat and down for the count at the long break, Alan Richardson’s young Saints somehow found a way to win.
Round 4 – St Kilda v Carlton: Saints dose of the New Zealand Blues
April 29, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The Saints’ ups have become downs again, this time in Wellington. Braham Dabscheck reports a case of the Blues.
Round 2 – Gold Coast v St Kilda: Thirty minutes of Heaven, and then some more.
April 12, 2015 by 2 Comments
A rather thrilled Braham Dabscheck thinks this win at the Gold Coast may mean more than others. It certainly gave Saints fans a quarter of sheer joy – the second – and the feeling did not subside.
Round 1 – St Kilda v GWS: No Easter eggs for Saints in season opener
April 7, 2015 by Leave a Comment
There is more to football than just football as Braham Dabscheck observes after the sad passing of Nick Riewoldt’s sister Madeleine. Footballers are just like the rest of us.
Book Review: The Best American Sports Writing 2014
March 3, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Braham Dabscheck takes a look at the recently released publication; The Best American Sports Writing 2014. The raw, the visceral and the heartbreak of sport, often without the Hollywood ending.
Hurlingham Park
January 27, 2015 by 2 Comments
Braham Dabscheck recalls a childhood of shattering the Donath’s dining room windows with sweetly-timed leg-side pull shots in street cricket, competing against mates and neighbours at the hallowed grounds of Hurlingham Park in Melbourne’s bayside suburbs, which sorted the men out from the boys and creating lifelong friendships and memories in equal measure.
The Early Days Of The VFL Players’ Association
December 6, 2014 by 1 Comment
Around this time last year John Harms published a fortieth year anniversary history of the AFL/VFL Players’ Association. His research was aided enormously by the early work of Braham Dabscheck, an academic who went on to be a leader in the area of understanding player associations, organisations, and unions (around the world). Braham now writes for the Almanac. To add to those St Kilda laments, we feel it’s timely to publish one of his early papers. [Thanks to Braham for making this original research paper available, and to Jay Carmichael for his diligent editing/conversion job – Ed]
The All Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final (Replay) 2014: Kilkenny v Tipperary
October 7, 2014 by 5 Comments
Braham Dabscheck always thought that Australian Football was the fastest and most exciting team sport of them all. Not any more. Hurling, he says, is a game that has no truck shillyshallying.
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