The Macarthur FC Chronicle
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ji Dong-Won scores twice — 8.67
Two goals and a mark of 8.67 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Macarthur 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
A row about effort at Macarthur FC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Joshua Laws was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match24 Oct 2026
Ji Dong-Won the difference as Macarthur FC beat Brisbane Roar
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ji Dong-Won. 2‑1 against Brisbane Roar, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market26 Oct 2026
Anthony Spencer steps up from the Macarthur FC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Anthony Spencer 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Hajime Suzuki
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Hajime Suzuki, and the manager let it.
Squad26 Oct 2026
12 new faces, and Macarthur FC are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Costly mistake from Hajime Suzuki
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Hajime Suzuki knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Hajime Suzuki is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
In brief
- The dugout Rhys Hamilton: “That is the standard”
- Boardroom Macarthur FC say no to the training-ground money
- Squad Ji Dong-Won finally opens his account