The Sydney FC Gazette
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Joe Lolley runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Jesse Crawford at Sydney FC
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jesse Crawford is 15, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Sydney FC
Joe Lolley 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.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Sydney FC
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Sydney FC training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Takahiro Sekine 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
Sydney FC promote Marcus Mason from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marcus Mason 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
Sydney FC promote Stefan Russell from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stefan Russell 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
One of our own: Flynn Knight joins the Sydney FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Flynn Knight is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
The afternoon belonged to Víctor Campuzano
A mark of 7.57, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
In brief
- Squad Sydney FC pick somebody else ahead of Rhyan Grant
- Match Point won or two lost for Sydney FC?
- Market The Patrick Wood talk will not go away