Adrian Baker

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
19 Jun 2030
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Marked for Adrian Baker

139 Edition

The Macarthur FC Chronicle

26 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad26 Mar 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sebastian Kršlović

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

Match21 Mar 2029

The wait goes on for Macarthur FC

10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match21 Mar 2029

Macarthur FC out of the cup

Sydney FC ended it 8‑9. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Match21 Mar 2029

A 2-goal lead gone for Macarthur FC

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Sydney FC kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Macarthur FC will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Player ratings26 Mar 2029

Ben Gibson scores twice — 9.84

Two goals and a mark of 9.84 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings26 Mar 2029

Michael Ruhs scores twice — 9.37

Two goals and a mark of 9.37 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad26 Mar 2029

A one-man rearguard from Adrian Baker

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.

Match21 Mar 2029

Macarthur FC are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 9 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Squad26 Mar 2029

3 goals for Ryan Fraser

The match ball belongs to Ryan Fraser, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

In brief

Back issues
135 Edition

The Macarthur FC Chronicle

26 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad26 Feb 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Sebastian Kršlović

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

Squad26 Feb 2029

A fracture rules Francis De Vries out for 44 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Macarthur FC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad26 Feb 2029

Adrian Baker keeps Macarthur FC in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market26 Feb 2029

Nathan Amanatidis is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Macarthur FC is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match24 Feb 2029

6 matches without a win for Macarthur FC

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Macarthur FC are no longer polite ones.

Squad26 Feb 2029

Tempers go at Macarthur FC

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.

Match24 Feb 2029

Macarthur FC are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 5 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match24 Feb 2029

Francis Tuiloma’s goal not enough for Macarthur FC

Francis Tuiloma scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑3 to Melbourne City, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout26 Feb 2029

No place for Mitchell Duke on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Macarthur FC pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

In brief