The Melbourne Victory Post
Squad23 Oct 2028
Jack Duncan breaks a bone — 100 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 100 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings23 Oct 2028
Nobody could get near Nishan Velupillay
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match21 Oct 2028
Nobody wins at Melbourne Victory
15 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Match21 Oct 2028
10 unbeaten for Melbourne Victory
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 10 matches without defeat is a foundation Melbourne Victory did not have in the autumn.
Boardroom23 Oct 2028
Melbourne Victory tie Travis Roberts down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Tempers go at Melbourne Victory
Denis Genreau 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.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Joshua van Schoor is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Boardroom23 Oct 2028
Graduation day at Melbourne Victory
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad23 Oct 2028
A late step up for Liam Gillion
At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
In brief
- Market Jamie Murray steps up from the Melbourne Victory academy
- Market Gavin Nelson steps up from the Melbourne Victory academy
- Market One of our own: Thomas Patterson joins the Melbourne Victory first team