The Melbourne Victory Post
Squad1 Sep 2031
11 seasons of Nishan Velupillay
239 appearances across 11 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Melbourne Victory know what they have.
Boardroom1 Sep 2031
Window shuts: 0 in, 6 out at Melbourne Victory
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 0 arrived, 6 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad1 Sep 2031
Denis Genreau 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 Melbourne Victory this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout1 Sep 2031
Nishan Velupillay has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Melbourne Victory will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad1 Sep 2031
Andile Zungu moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Melbourne Victory than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
The dugout1 Sep 2031
Jonty Bidois knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Jonty Bidois trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Squad Cameron Powell still has not settled
- Market The window shut and Ryan Kalms is still in the building
- The dugout The manager comes out for Denis Genreau