Marked for Patrick Robinson
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Boardroom27 Sep 2032
The scrutiny sharpens at Perth Glory
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Perth Glory is running low.
Squad27 Sep 2032
Matthew Sutton 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.
Squad27 Sep 2032
“The easiest signature of my career.” Patrick Robinson and Perth Glory agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad20 Sep 2032
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.
Squad20 Sep 2032
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jamie Thomas commits to Perth Glory for another 3 years.
The dugout20 Sep 2032
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Grant Campbell is on it.
Market20 Sep 2032
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Alex Badolato’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market20 Sep 2032
Perth Glory have made Bonphas Munyasa available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
The dugout20 Sep 2032
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Patrick Robinson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
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Squad
The training reports on Jack Davis are not good
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Squad
Ethan Price is training like a man with a point to make