Marked for Jack Davis
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad18 Oct 2032
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.
Market18 Oct 2032
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lucas Lloyd 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.
Market18 Oct 2032
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Aidan Spencer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market18 Oct 2032
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dean Murray is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market18 Oct 2032
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Reece McCallum 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.
The dugout18 Oct 2032
Grant Campbell has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Perth Glory will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad20 Sep 2032
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.
Squad20 Sep 2032
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jamie Thomas commits to Perth Glory for another 3 years.
The dugout20 Sep 2032
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Grant Campbell is on it.
Market20 Sep 2032
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Alex Badolato’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market20 Sep 2032
Perth Glory have made Bonphas Munyasa available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.
The dugout20 Sep 2032
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Patrick Robinson trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
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Squad
The training reports on Jack Davis are not good
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Squad
Ethan Price is training like a man with a point to make
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Uneasy
Squad24 May 2032
Clayton Taylor and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 May 2032
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Anthony Miller and Perth Glory agree another 3 years.
Squad24 May 2032
Anthony Didulica falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout24 May 2032
Trent Ostler has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Perth Glory will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout24 May 2032
Caleb Butler gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Market24 May 2032
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Perth Glory know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
The dugout16 Feb 2032
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Perth Glory may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad16 Feb 2032
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bailey O'Neil commits to Perth Glory for another 3 years.
Squad16 Feb 2032
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.
Match14 Feb 2032
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Transfer targets16 Feb 2032
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. CF Montreal have kept their man, and Perth Glory go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout16 Feb 2032
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout16 Feb 2032
Bailey O'Neil gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Bailey O'Neil is on it.
The dugout16 Feb 2032
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad16 Feb 2032
Blake Kennedy falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.