Patrick Moore

Left Forward - Central Coast Mariners
26 Jan 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Patrick Moore

24 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Joe Lolley

119 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sydney FC lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

12 matches without a win for Sydney FC

The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Sydney FC are no longer polite ones.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Harrison Devenish-Meares

There were 7 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.

Squad

Joe Lolley 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 Sydney FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Whatever happens, Sydney FC do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Marcel Tisserand 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.

Boardroom

Kavian Rahmani will join Sydney FC for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Kavian Rahmani has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Sydney FC have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Al Hassan Touré

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Newcastle Jets are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Sydney FC will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

Back issues
13 Edition

The Sydney FC Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Leandro Chaparro damages knee ligaments — 143 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 143 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

5 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.

Squad

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.

Squad

A late step up for Leandro Chaparro

At 35 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Player ratings

Piero Quispe 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.

Market

One of our own: Patrick Miller joins the Sydney FC first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrick Miller is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Ethan Hamilton steps up from the Sydney FC academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ethan 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.

Market

Sydney FC promote Patrick Moore from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Patrick Moore 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.

In brief