Matt Murphy

Goalkeeper - Brisbane Roar
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Marked for Matt Murphy

248 Edition

The Brisbane Roar Chronicle

28 Apr 2031
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces28 Apr 2031

Anger at Brisbane Roar 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.

Squad28 Apr 2031

A knee injury of the worst kind for Matt Polster

32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Brisbane Roar lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom28 Apr 2031

The scrutiny sharpens at Brisbane Roar

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Brisbane Roar is running low.

Market28 Apr 2031

Macay Benbenisti puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Brisbane Roar, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout28 Apr 2031

Bill Reid: 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.” Brisbane Roar have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad28 Apr 2031

Words exchanged at Brisbane Roar

Jordan Lauton 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.

Squad28 Apr 2031

Words at Brisbane Roar training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Harry Politidis is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad28 Apr 2031

Matt Murphy stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Matt Murphy and Brisbane Roar agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout28 Apr 2031

Emmanuel Junior Chidi knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Emmanuel Junior Chidi trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

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221 Edition

The Brisbane Roar Chronicle

21 Oct 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom21 Oct 2030

Brisbane Roar part company with Denis Le Goff

The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.

Squad21 Oct 2030

A knee injury of the worst kind for Musa Drammeh

42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Brisbane Roar lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom21 Oct 2030

An empty coaching office at Brisbane Roar

There is nobody left to promote and nobody left to run a session. The board have brought in a name the supporters do not know, and the question of how a club gets here will outlast whoever answers it.

Boardroom21 Oct 2030

Interim Coach steps up at Brisbane Roar for now

“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.

Squad21 Oct 2030

Tempers go at Brisbane Roar

Harry Politidis 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.

Squad21 Oct 2030

A move Bill Reid would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Bill Reid is living that version at Brisbane Roar, and it tends to show in the first month.

Boardroom21 Oct 2030

7 academy graduates step up at Brisbane Roar

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Market21 Oct 2030

One of our own: Liam Campbell joins the Brisbane Roar first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Liam Campbell is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market21 Oct 2030

Matt Murphy steps up from the Brisbane Roar academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matt Murphy has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief