Kai Mitchell

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631 Edition

The Melbourne City Gazette

30 Aug 2038
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad30 Aug 2038

A knee injury of the worst kind for Hervé Koffi

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

Squad30 Aug 2038

A fracture rules Quinn MacNicol out for 29 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Melbourne City will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Boardroom30 Aug 2038

The scrutiny sharpens at Melbourne City

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

Squad30 Aug 2038

Jayden Necovski 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.

Market30 Aug 2038

Melbourne City say no — this time

The offer from Perth Glory for Paul Evans was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market30 Aug 2038

Amadou Bamba hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Melbourne City can pretend not to have heard.

In brief

Back issues
629 Edition

The Melbourne City Gazette

16 Aug 2038
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad16 Aug 2038

A knee injury of the worst kind for Hervé Koffi

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

The terraces16 Aug 2038

Anger at Melbourne City 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.

Squad16 Aug 2038

A fracture rules Quinn MacNicol out for 43 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Melbourne City will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match16 Aug 2038

Melbourne City are in real trouble now

Position 12, 20 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad16 Aug 2038

Tempers go at Melbourne City

Isaac Hughes 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.

Squad16 Aug 2038

Cooper Green is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

In brief

587 Edition

The Melbourne City Gazette

26 Oct 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad26 Oct 2037

Daniel Bennie damages knee ligaments — 68 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 68 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.

Player ratings26 Oct 2037

Both of them Max Caputo's — 9.90

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.90, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings26 Oct 2037

Clayton Taylor scores twice — 9.84

Two goals and a mark of 9.84 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad26 Oct 2037

A one-man rearguard from Hervé Koffi

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad26 Oct 2037

Bailey O'Neil: 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.” Melbourne City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings26 Oct 2037

A chastening introduction for Reece Sullivan — 5.17

It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.17 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.

Match24 Oct 2037

Melbourne City come up short against Newcastle Jets

Newcastle Jets left with the points after a 5‑6 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad26 Oct 2037

Tempers go at Melbourne City

Isaac Hughes 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.

Player ratings26 Oct 2037

Austin Harrison in the eights

A performance of 9.94 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief