Daniel Grant

Goalkeeper - Perth Glory
17 Mar 2033
Thursday
Process

Marked for Daniel Grant

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The Perth Glory Sentinel

28 Feb 2033
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Perth Glory spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Squad

7 saves: Matthew Sutton was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Squad

Matthew Sutton in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Perth Glory this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Grant Campbell

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Grant Campbell sends Perth Glory past Central Coast Mariners

It finished 1‑0, and it was Grant Campbell’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Perth Glory.

Squad

Daniel Grant signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Grant and Perth Glory agree another 3 years.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Kevin Falcao kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Trent Ostler

Defensive actions: 15. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Anthony Miller

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Anthony Miller, and the manager let it.

In brief

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The Perth Glory Sentinel

27 Oct 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Rhys Harris, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.00

A mark of 8.00 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Harrison Devenish-Meares asks to leave Perth Glory

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout

Anthony Didulica: 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.” Perth Glory have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom

the manager signs on for the long haul

Perth Glory moved before anybody else could: a new deal for the manager, agreed quietly and announced loudly. Boards extend managers for many reasons; the good one is the one this looks like.

Match

Perth Glory make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Perth Glory have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

Matthew Sutton in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Perth Glory this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Perth Glory

7 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Rhys Harris

He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Grant Campbell sends Perth Glory past Auckland FC

It finished 2‑0, and it was Grant Campbell’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Perth Glory.

In brief