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The Melbourne Victory Post
12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jack Duncan
88 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Melbourne Victory lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Jack Mihailidis at Melbourne Victory
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Jack Mihailidis is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Melbourne Victory
Jordi Valadon and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Adrian Davis joins the Melbourne Victory first team
- Squad Michael Ruhs has settled at Melbourne Victory
- The dugout Keegan Jelacic keeps his manager's vote