Tom Richards

Left Midfielder - Melbourne City U18
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507 Edition

The Melbourne City Gazette

14 Apr 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout14 Apr 2036

Blake Harrison 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.

Market14 Apr 2036

Connor Gallagher is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Melbourne City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad14 Apr 2036

Finn Surman 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.

Squad14 Apr 2036

A row about effort at Melbourne City

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ussumane Djabi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout14 Apr 2036

Anthony Pantazopoulos 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.

The dugout14 Apr 2036

Lamine Diaby Fadiga has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Melbourne City 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.

Squad14 Apr 2036

A wage question at Melbourne City

Salieu Drammeh has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

Market14 Apr 2036

Still no ink between Melbourne City and Anthony Marshall

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Melbourne City, another week without a signature from Anthony Marshall.

Market14 Apr 2036

Still no signature from Ussumane Djabi

5 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Melbourne City could get for him.

In brief

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487 Edition

The Melbourne City Gazette

26 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match24 Nov 2035

Melbourne City make home a hard place to visit

11 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.

Market26 Nov 2035

Connor Gallagher is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Melbourne City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad26 Nov 2035

Finn Surman 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.

Match24 Nov 2035

Salieu Drammeh the difference as Melbourne City beat Central Coast Mariners

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Salieu Drammeh. 1‑0 against Central Coast Mariners, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings26 Nov 2035

One of those days for Salieu Drammeh

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.32, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout26 Nov 2035

The manager makes an example of Usisya Longwe

“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.

Squad26 Nov 2035

Tom Richards signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tom Richards and Melbourne City agree another 3 years.

The dugout26 Nov 2035

Tyler Holmes has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Tyler Holmes on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

Squad26 Nov 2035

Connor Gallagher 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.

In brief

485 Edition

The Melbourne City Gazette

12 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match10 Nov 2035

Wellington Phoenix end the Melbourne City run at 18

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 18 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Market12 Nov 2035

Anthony Pantazopoulos is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Melbourne City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

The dugout12 Nov 2035

Steven Turner: 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.

Squad12 Nov 2035

Words at Melbourne City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Finn Surman is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match10 Nov 2035

Wellington Phoenix take the points off Melbourne City

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings12 Nov 2035

Eyong Ofem beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 19. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market12 Nov 2035

Melbourne City promote Tom Richards from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tom Richards 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.

Market12 Nov 2035

One of our own: Thomas Cummings joins the Melbourne City first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Thomas Cummings is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market12 Nov 2035

Blake Harrison steps up from the Melbourne City academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Blake Harrison 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