Oliver Evans

Central Midfielder - Perth Glory
24 Sep 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Oliver Evans

95 Edition

The Perth Glory Sentinel

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Sam Sutton breaks a bone — 67 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 67 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Riley Foxe asks to leave Perth Glory

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tom Lawrence in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Perth Glory this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Perth Glory training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Brandon O'Neill is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

The manager has not finished forgetting Adam Taggart's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Loan watch

Will Freney counts the days

“I watch every Perth Glory game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Auckland FC runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

Back issues
91 Edition

The Perth Glory Sentinel

24 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Sam Sutton breaks a bone — 97 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 97 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Riley Foxe 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 The request is on a desk at Perth Glory, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tom Lawrence in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Perth Glory this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

84 Edition

The Perth Glory Sentinel

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Matthew Sutton hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Perth Glory can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tiago Quintal says Perth Glory went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tom Lawrence signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tom Lawrence commits to Perth Glory for another 2 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Perth Glory

Tom Lawrence was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Tom Lawrence

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Melbourne Victory take the points off Perth Glory

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings

An afternoon Adam Taggart will want back

Marked 3.73. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

Market

Arion Sulemani returns from a loan that gave him nothing

4 appearances and 0 goals is not a season, it is a year somebody has lost. Whether that is his fault, the borrowing club's or the people who arranged it is the argument the next few weeks will have.

Player ratings

An afternoon Nathan Amanatidis will want back

Marked 5.75. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

In brief