The Perth Glory Sentinel
Squad22 Oct 2029
A fracture rules Brendan Hamill out for 40 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Perth Glory will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match20 Oct 2029
Auckland FC end the Perth Glory run at 13
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 13 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Match20 Oct 2029
6 matches without a win for Perth Glory
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Perth Glory are no longer polite ones.
Market22 Oct 2029
Bryce Murray is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Perth Glory is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 Oct 2029
Tom Lawrence in a row with a teammate
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.
Boardroom22 Oct 2029
Graduation day at Perth Glory
6 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match20 Oct 2029
Auckland FC take the points off Perth Glory
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market22 Oct 2029
Reece Hughes steps up from the Perth Glory academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Reece Hughes 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.
Market22 Oct 2029
One of our own: Michael Phillips joins the Perth Glory first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Michael Phillips 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 Perth Glory promote Archie Shaw from within
- The dugout the manager: “No excuses”
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Will Freney