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The Macarthur FC Chronicle
17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Macarthur FC
Ji Dong-Won and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Macarthur FC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ryan Fraser was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager plants his flag on Ji Dong-Won
“Judge me on him.” Managers do not say that kind of thing by accident — it moves the pressure from Ji Dong-Won’s shoulders onto his own, and both of them know it.
In brief
- Squad Word from the training ground: Ji Dong-Won
- Squad Sam Reid is fit again