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Brownlow Medallist
- Oct 10, 2007
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A much longer article than the grabs I've posted (some of the "more mature" 
posters may be interested in reading)
http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/115995/default.aspx
To get to the Melbourne office of Mordy Bromberg, you have to pass through high-level security and explain in detail to a uniformed officer the reason for your visit.
The former St Kilda back-pocket is now the Honorary Justice Mordecai Bromberg of the Federal Court of Australia.
People would still remember Bromberg as a long-haired Saints defender who played 34 matches from 1978-81.
Bromberg joined the Saints from Brighton Grammar and East Brighton. That he even made it that far is remarkable, given he was born in Israel, didn't move to Australia until he was eight and didn't speak a word of English when he arrived.
He made his debut in 1978 under Mike Patterson while studying law at Monash University, but left midway through the following season after a falling out with the coach.
He spent the rest of 1979 in the Victorian amateur competition with Ajax, playing in a premiership with a group of mates who played for fun rather than money.
He returned to St Kilda in 1980 to give League football one last crack.
Bromberg enjoyed his best season, earning three Brownlow Medal votes for a match against Footscray at Moorabbin, a game he remembered more for the fact St Kilda's coach at the time, Alex Jesaulenko, had instituted a punitive training regimen, in which players had to run several 400m sprints after training, the number of which increased with every week the Saints kept losing.
The win over the Bulldogs snapped a four-match losing streak and Bromberg was feted as the king of Moorabbin because it meant an easier few weeks of training.
Yet after four games in 1981, Bromberg was gone, refusing to yield to a demand from Jesaulenko that he quit his law studies for good.
His other enduring memory of his St Kilda days was the colour television he won as best on ground in a night match in 1980.
Bromberg briefly returned to St Kilda as a member of the football sub-committee when Greg Westaway became president in 2008. But otherwise, he is a fan who attends, by his own estimation, about "90 per cent" of matches the Saints play in Victoria.
posters may be interested in reading)http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/115995/default.aspx
To get to the Melbourne office of Mordy Bromberg, you have to pass through high-level security and explain in detail to a uniformed officer the reason for your visit.
The former St Kilda back-pocket is now the Honorary Justice Mordecai Bromberg of the Federal Court of Australia.
People would still remember Bromberg as a long-haired Saints defender who played 34 matches from 1978-81.
Bromberg joined the Saints from Brighton Grammar and East Brighton. That he even made it that far is remarkable, given he was born in Israel, didn't move to Australia until he was eight and didn't speak a word of English when he arrived.
He made his debut in 1978 under Mike Patterson while studying law at Monash University, but left midway through the following season after a falling out with the coach.
He spent the rest of 1979 in the Victorian amateur competition with Ajax, playing in a premiership with a group of mates who played for fun rather than money.
He returned to St Kilda in 1980 to give League football one last crack.
Bromberg enjoyed his best season, earning three Brownlow Medal votes for a match against Footscray at Moorabbin, a game he remembered more for the fact St Kilda's coach at the time, Alex Jesaulenko, had instituted a punitive training regimen, in which players had to run several 400m sprints after training, the number of which increased with every week the Saints kept losing.
The win over the Bulldogs snapped a four-match losing streak and Bromberg was feted as the king of Moorabbin because it meant an easier few weeks of training.
Yet after four games in 1981, Bromberg was gone, refusing to yield to a demand from Jesaulenko that he quit his law studies for good.
His other enduring memory of his St Kilda days was the colour television he won as best on ground in a night match in 1980.
Bromberg briefly returned to St Kilda as a member of the football sub-committee when Greg Westaway became president in 2008. But otherwise, he is a fan who attends, by his own estimation, about "90 per cent" of matches the Saints play in Victoria.
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