The A-League Post
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Nobody scored more than Lachlan Brook
The month closes with Lachlan Brook out in front — 2 goals in 2 games, and Auckland FC have the division's most feared finisher.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Haine Eames is the month's best young player — 8.01
The award the rest of the division reads as a transfer rumour. 8.01 over the month and 1 goal contributions, from a Central Coast Mariners U18 player whose price has just gone up without anybody at his club doing anything.
Market1 Nov 2026
Nicholas Pennington puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Auckland FC, and it is not being withdrawn.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Nobody made more than Joshua Smits this month
3 assists, 6.51, and a Adelaide United player who spent four weekends being the reason somebody else's name went in the paper. It is the least-rewarded skill in football and the easiest one to notice its absence.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Highest marks in the league belong to a Auckland FC man
Lachlan Brook averaged 8.57 over 2 appearances. Nothing about that will trend, and anybody who watched all four games would tell you it was the most accurate thing on this page.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Nick D'Agostino keeps the pressure on
2 goals in 2 appearances for Brisbane Roar leave him among the month's leading marksmen.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Still scoring: Keegan Jelacic
2 in 2 for Melbourne Victory. Nobody outside his own ground is talking about him, which tends to be true of everybody on this list except the man at the top of it.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Zach Clough up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Newcastle Jets — 2 goals from 1 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Sam Cosgrove up among the month's scorers
A productive month at Auckland FC — 2 goals from 2 appearances, and a place near the top of the charts.
Scoring charts1 Nov 2026
Marius Lode named among the month's best — 7.98
2 appearances at that mark for Brisbane Roar. The team of the month is chosen against every player in the division who does his job, which makes it a quieter compliment than an award and a harder one to dispute.
Market1 Nov 2026
Adelaide United and Craig Goodwin are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market1 Nov 2026
The Sam Cosgrove story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Sam Cosgrove signs something — a contract at Auckland FC or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.