The Melbourne City Gazette
Match21 Oct 2028
Melbourne City make home a hard place to visit
20 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
Patrick Beach says Melbourne City 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.
Market23 Oct 2028
Tyler Bindon wants European nights
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Boardroom23 Oct 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Melbourne City
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.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Tyler Bindon 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.
Match21 Oct 2028
After 6 games, Melbourne City finally taste it again
The first defeat in 6 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Newcastle Jets; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
Squad23 Oct 2028
A falling-out at Melbourne City
Antonee Burke-Gilroy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market23 Oct 2028
One of our own: Keanu Cummings joins the Melbourne City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Keanu Cummings is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market23 Oct 2028
Sam Crawford steps up from the Melbourne City academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sam Crawford 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
- Market Melbourne City promote Craig Lewis from within
- Match A bad afternoon for Melbourne City against Newcastle Jets
- Boardroom Melbourne City board go back on their word