The Perth Glory Sentinel
Player ratings11 Feb 2047
Travis Cooper scores twice — 8.25
Two goals and a mark of 8.25 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad11 Feb 2047
Words at Perth Glory training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Luke Brooke-Smith 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.
Match9 Feb 2047
Perth Glory see off Adelaide United
Three points for Perth Glory, 2‑1 the final word against Adelaide United in a contest settled by the finer margins.
The terraces11 Feb 2047
The crowd has taken to Travis Cooper
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings11 Feb 2047
Blake Beath runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad11 Feb 2047
Ryan Davis signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ryan Davis and Perth Glory agree another 1 years.
Squad11 Feb 2047
Jarrod Edwards 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.
Squad11 Feb 2047
When it matters, Luke Brooke-Smith 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.
Market11 Feb 2047
Toby Riley leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Toby Riley leaves Perth Glory the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Simon Webb leaves for nothing
- Market The market said no: Rhys Moore stays put
- Market Perth Glory put Toby Wood up for sale