The Macarthur FC Chronicle
Squad25 Oct 2027
Tomislav Uskok damages knee ligaments — 113 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 113 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match23 Oct 2027
12 matches without a win for Macarthur FC
The run now stands at 12, and the questions being asked around Macarthur FC are no longer polite ones.
The dugout25 Oct 2027
Frédéric Efuele says Macarthur FC went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Words exchanged at Macarthur FC
Tomislav Uskok 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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Time is catching up with Tomislav Uskok
Everybody at Macarthur FC saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Macarthur FC
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.
Market25 Oct 2027
Damien Bailey steps up from the Macarthur FC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Damien Bailey 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.
Market25 Oct 2027
One of our own: Nathan Harrison joins the Macarthur FC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nathan Harrison is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market25 Oct 2027
Macarthur FC promote Anthony Powell from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anthony Powell has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Macarthur FC promote Mitchell Simpson from within
- Boardroom Macarthur FC let a promise lapse
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Gabriel Cléùr