The Melbourne City Gazette
Match1 Mar 2031
Whatever happens, Melbourne City do not lose
15 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad3 Mar 2031
Genaro Rossi is carrying Melbourne City
20 goals and a season average of 7.60. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
Match1 Mar 2031
The run is over for Melbourne City
13 matches without defeat, and then Macarthur FC. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
The dugout3 Mar 2031
Bailey Brandtman: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Melbourne City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad3 Mar 2031
A falling-out at Melbourne City
Angus Thurgate and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings3 Mar 2031
Joel Anasmo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad3 Mar 2031
Genaro Rossi 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.
Market3 Mar 2031
Melbourne City promote Dylan Collins from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dylan Collins 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.
Market3 Mar 2031
One of our own: Jarrod Lawrence joins the Melbourne City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jarrod Lawrence is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Jamie Ferguson joins the Melbourne City first team
- Market Melbourne City promote Lucas Webb from within
- Match The run at home goes on for Melbourne City