The Melbourne City Gazette
Match23 Oct 2027
Still nobody has beaten Melbourne City
The unbeaten run reaches 18. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Awer Mabil beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 32. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
Andrew Nabbout: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Melbourne City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Age has not caught Ryan Fraser yet — 8.10
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.10 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match23 Oct 2027
Nobody wins at Melbourne City
12 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
A new deal for Darren Brown
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Squad25 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Melbourne City
Harrison Delbridge and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Melbourne City
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.
Match23 Oct 2027
At last: Melbourne City win one
5 matches without a win, and then this, against Newcastle Jets. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Grant Cooper joins the Melbourne City first team
- Market One of our own: Noah Hunter joins the Melbourne City first team
- Market Scott Harrison steps up from the Melbourne City academy