Bailey Walsh

Left Forward - Melbourne City
9 Nov 2030
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Marked for Bailey Walsh

222 Edition

The Melbourne City Gazette

28 Oct 2030
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad28 Oct 2030

Goforth Amedu breaks a bone — 81 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 81 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

The dugout28 Oct 2030

Lamine Diaby Fadiga keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Melbourne City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings28 Oct 2030

Bailey Walsh, 17, steals the show — 7.61

Marked 7.61 at 17, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market28 Oct 2030

Cameron Cook asks to leave Melbourne City

“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.

Market28 Oct 2030

Joe Knowles has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Melbourne City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad28 Oct 2030

Patrick Beach 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 Melbourne City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Oct 2030

A move Abdul Annan 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. Abdul Annan is living that version at Melbourne City, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match26 Oct 2030

Melbourne City get the job done against Newcastle Jets

A 2‑1 win over Newcastle Jets, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

The terraces28 Oct 2030

One of their own: Bailey Walsh

He is 17 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.

In brief

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170 Edition

The Melbourne City Gazette

29 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings29 Oct 2029

A brace, and Justin Vidic takes the afternoon — 8.54

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Justin Vidic provided it, and the 8.54 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings29 Oct 2029

Gianni Stensness pops up at the right end — 7.91

7.91, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Market29 Oct 2029

Jurvain Valentijn has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Melbourne City they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad29 Oct 2029

Gianni Stensness 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 Melbourne City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match27 Oct 2029

Melbourne City get the job done against Auckland FC

A 3‑1 win over Auckland FC, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad29 Oct 2029

Belal Halbouni 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 dugout29 Oct 2029

Nathaniel Atkinson back under a manager who knows him

The new man at Melbourne City has worked with Nathaniel Atkinson before and it went well. He arrives with a view of the player already formed, which is worth more than any pre-season.

Player ratings29 Oct 2029

Adrian Segecic in the eights

A performance of 8.03 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad29 Oct 2029

Bailey Walsh signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bailey Walsh commits to Melbourne City for another 4 years.

In brief