Declan Craig

Goalkeeper - Macarthur FC
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344 Edition

The Macarthur FC Chronicle

28 Feb 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match28 Feb 2033

Macarthur FC sink to position 11

9 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match26 Feb 2033

Macarthur FC leaking at the back

10 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Player ratings28 Feb 2033

Luke Vickery scores twice — 8.15

Two goals and a mark of 8.15 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

The dugout28 Feb 2033

Declan Craig keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Macarthur FC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad28 Feb 2033

Tempers go at Macarthur FC

Kosta Grozos 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.

Match26 Feb 2033

Auckland FC take the points off Macarthur FC

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad28 Feb 2033

Words at Macarthur FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastian Esposito 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.

Squad28 Feb 2033

James Morgan out for 50 days

The medical room confirms 50 days on the sidelines for James Morgan, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad28 Feb 2033

Hayden Duncan signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hayden Duncan commits to Macarthur FC for another 3 years.

In brief

Back issues
336 Edition

The Macarthur FC Chronicle

3 Jan 2033
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match1 Jan 2033

No end in sight to Macarthur FC's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Macarthur FC has to find a result from somewhere.

Match1 Jan 2033

Macarthur FC taken apart

0‑4 to Central Coast Mariners, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match3 Jan 2033

Macarthur FC are in real trouble now

Position 10, 5 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market3 Jan 2033

Darren Jones 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 Macarthur FC, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets3 Jan 2033

Melbourne Victory tell Macarthur FC: Medin Memeti is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad3 Jan 2033

A falling-out at Macarthur FC

Liam Rose and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout3 Jan 2033

Jesse Cummings gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom3 Jan 2033

Doors closed at Macarthur FC

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

Squad3 Jan 2033

Declan Craig stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Declan Craig and Macarthur FC agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

277 Edition

The Macarthur FC Chronicle

17 Nov 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces17 Nov 2031

Anger at Macarthur FC spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market17 Nov 2031

Bryce Holmes 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 Macarthur FC, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad17 Nov 2031

Words at Macarthur FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sebastian Esposito 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.

The dugout17 Nov 2031

Luke Vickery gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad17 Nov 2031

Words exchanged at Macarthur FC

Liam Rose and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout17 Nov 2031

A promise honoured for Mason White

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Macarthur FC told Mason White something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout17 Nov 2031

Daniel Cooper is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout17 Nov 2031

Jesse Cummings knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Macarthur FC, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Boardroom17 Nov 2031

Macarthur FC keep producing them

71 graduates from an academy now rated 9 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.

In brief

274 Edition

The Macarthur FC Chronicle

27 Oct 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout27 Oct 2031

Bryce Holmes says Macarthur FC 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.

Market27 Oct 2031

Daniel Cooper 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 Macarthur FC, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad27 Oct 2031

Tempers go at Macarthur FC

Kosta Grozos 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.

Boardroom27 Oct 2031

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Macarthur FC

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

The dugout27 Oct 2031

Hayden Stewart frozen out at Macarthur FC

This is not rotation. Hayden Stewart has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Macarthur FC is pretending otherwise.

Squad27 Oct 2031

Sebastian Esposito falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market27 Oct 2031

One of our own: Declan Craig joins the Macarthur FC first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Declan Craig is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market27 Oct 2031

Macarthur FC promote Ryan Duncan from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ryan Duncan has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market27 Oct 2031

Mark Clark steps up from the Macarthur FC academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mark Clark has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief