James Jackson

Central Defender - Free Agent
21 Jul 2030
Sunday
Process

Marked for James Jackson

197 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

6 May 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alan Chacón breaks a bone — 119 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 119 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Mpho Manare has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Western Sydney Wanderers they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at Western Sydney Wanderers

Ryan Fraser 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.

In brief

Back issues
196 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

29 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Alan Chacón breaks a bone — 126 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 126 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Dylan Scicluna hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Western Sydney Wanderers can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Luciano Romero

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Luciano Romero will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Western Sydney Wanderers the goodbyes have quietly begun.

In brief

174 Edition

The Western Sydney Wanderers Chronicle

26 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The cup run ends for Western Sydney Wanderers

2‑3 against Newcastle Jets, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Lawrence Thomas

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

James Jackson, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.71

A mark of 7.71 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Squad

Tempers go at Western Sydney Wanderers

Ryan Fraser 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.

Squad

Words at Western Sydney Wanderers training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alex Gersbach 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.

Match

Sydney FC take the points off Western Sydney Wanderers

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

In brief