The Perth Glory Sentinel
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nothing got past Brandon O'Neill
30 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Brian Kaltak shuts the door
Defensive actions: 29, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Perth Glory
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
Tom Lawrence 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Sebastian Despotovski runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market26 Oct 2026
Sam Bailey steps up from the Perth Glory academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sam Bailey 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
Mason Hamilton steps up from the Perth Glory academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mason Hamilton 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
Perth Glory promote Jesse Wilson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jesse Wilson 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: Jarrod Williams joins the Perth Glory first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jarrod Williams is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Match Adam Taggart sends Perth Glory past Auckland FC
- Squad No hiding place for Sam Sutton
- Player ratings Scott Wootton shuts the door