The Perth Glory Sentinel
Match20 Nov 2027
15 matches without a win for Perth Glory
The run now stands at 15, and the questions being asked around Perth Glory are no longer polite ones.
Squad22 Nov 2027
A falling-out at Perth Glory
Tom Lawrence and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Nov 2027
A row about effort at Perth Glory
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gabriel Cléùr was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match20 Nov 2027
Arion Sulemani’s goal not enough for Perth Glory
Arion Sulemani scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Wellington Phoenix, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Perth Glory count the cost of losing Patrick Beath
21 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Luke Roberts faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Luke Roberts after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Brian Kaltak
“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.
The dugout22 Nov 2027
Sam Sutton has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Perth Glory 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.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Arion Sulemani is off the mark for Perth Glory
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
In brief
- Looking ahead Cameron Cook faces his old club
- The dugout No place in the plan for Scott Wootton
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Marco Rojas