Patrick Lewis

Left Wingback - Perth Glory
5 Sep 2036
Friday
Process

Marked for Patrick Lewis

513 Edition

The Perth Glory Sentinel

26 May 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Kye Henderson has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

A falling-out at Perth Glory

Matthew Sutton and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

Kye Phillips is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Market

The Alex Badolato talk will not go away

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.

Match

Perth Glory in the hunt for Europe

Position 6, 30 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.

The dugout

Kye Henderson knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Perth Glory, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
500 Edition

The Perth Glory Sentinel

25 Feb 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Aidan Spencer, 19, steals the show — 7.95

Marked 7.95 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

The dugout

Kye Henderson says Perth Glory 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.

Squad

Matthew Sutton 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 Perth Glory this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Theo Leeming sends Perth Glory past Central Coast Mariners

It finished 2‑0, and it was Theo Leeming’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Perth Glory.

Player ratings

Alex Badolato was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.06. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Kevin Falcao, on a 2‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

When it matters, Matthew Sutton plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

The form table has caught Jackson White

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Looking ahead

A reunion for Will Kennedy

He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Sydney FC in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.

In brief