The Melbourne Victory Post
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Melbourne Victory
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.
Market26 Oct 2026
Melbourne Victory promote Patrick Scott from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Patrick Scott 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Jordi Valadon 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
No time for Western Sydney Wanderers to settle
The goal that put Western Sydney Wanderers ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Melbourne Victory equalised, 2 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.
Squad26 Oct 2026
100 appearances for Jordi Valadon
100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nishan Velupillay was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 17. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Keegan Jelacic was the difference for Melbourne Victory
Marked 7.88. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Too much change too quickly at Melbourne Victory
9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Match24 Oct 2026
Melbourne Victory and Western Sydney Wanderers take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
In brief
- The dugout Mark Hughes on the point
- Looking ahead Melbourne Victory take on the side everybody is chasing
- The dugout The form table has caught Franco Lino