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Melbourne City will be seeking redemption following their 1-0 loss to Western Sydney Wanderers last time out, as they prepare to face the...
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Josh Gribling
Dec 26, 20204 min read
2020/21 Melbourne City W-League Season Preview
The usual benchmark of walking the league and adding another W-League trophy to the City cabinet looks to have been thrown out the window...
Josh Gribling
Dec 23, 20204 min read
2020/21 Melbourne City A-League Season Preview
How do you preview a season that, all things considered, still may not yet go ahead without further disruption? It’s a pessimistic way to...
Josh Gribling
Dec 5, 20203 min read
Scouting Naoki Tsubaki
Naoki Tsubaki joins Melbourne City today on a one-year loan from fellow City Football Group club Yokohama F. Marinos. A graduate of the...
Josh Gribling
Nov 30, 20202 min read
W-League fixture wrap-up: Title defence, double-headers galore and TC's 'unmissable' home games
Fans of the ‘Dub’ rejoiced today at the release of the 2020/21 W-League fixture, with our champion City girls set to have a number of...
Josh Gribling
Nov 24, 20203 min read
The Good, the Bad and the Uncertain: Our take on City's 20/21 fixtures
Mid-week fixtures? A season that will run (nearly) into the winter? And we’re sure that this is Australia, not England… right? The new...
Josh Gribling
Oct 28, 20207 min read
By the Numbers: Melbourne City Statistical Team of the Decade
Over a series of 11 podcasts throughout the 2019/20 season, the ever-changing cast of Talking City panellists argued for the players they...
Josh Gribling
Oct 16, 20204 min read
Best of the Rest: Selecting a squad of City's best-ever foreign signings
With players of 23 foreign nationalities passing through the club over the years, we’ve accumulated quite the pool of talent from which...
Josh Gribling
Oct 14, 20205 min read
Home-grown: Selecting an all-Aussie squad of past and present players
Picture Saturday night football and a packed AAMI Park – yes, we’re aware that’s a fair old task even for the wildest imagination. It...
Josh Gribling
Sep 29, 20202 min read
From the Archives: Our Top 5 Melbourne City Kits! (July 2019)
There’s nothing like releasing a fresh batch of kits to build energy and excitement for all the unknowns of the upcoming campaign. City’s...
Matt McIndoe
Sep 12, 20204 min read
OPINION: Time to scrap the cap
What a year 2020 has been for Australian football; COVID caused a major disruption to the closing stages of the season, the financial...
Josh Gribling
Sep 9, 20203 min read
Scouting Aiden O'Neill
Aiden O’Neill has this morning signed a three-year deal with Melbourne City, joining from Premier League side Burnley in what is to be...
Josh Gribling
Jul 29, 20202 min read
Brad Rowse on Heart's start to life in the A-League
In an SEN interview with Talking City that aired on Tuesday night, current Melbourne City CEO Brad Rowse was gracious in giving both his...
Christian Leggas
Jul 27, 20202 min read
OPINION: Why Wales, not Atkinson, is the better Susaeta replacement
Disclaimer: Views expressed are those of the individual writer and are not representative of those of Talking City. Statistics as per...
Josh Gribling
Jul 16, 20202 min read
ICYMI: Engelaar named Goal of the Decade (Breakdown of votes)
It’s been ten seasons since Ben Kantarovski put the ball into the back of his own net to record Melbourne Heart's first-ever goal. Since...
Matt McIndoe
Jul 16, 20201 min read
Surely it couldn't happen again?
After the huge battle that we undertook just to get into NSW to get this season restarted it looks like we may have to gear up for...
Josh Gribling
Jun 5, 20203 min read
Who won the Brattan-Brillante exchange?
When Josh Brillante signed for City in August last year, fans knew it was likely to spell the end for fan-favourite Luke Brattan, who...
Josh Gribling
May 22, 20203 min read
Revisiting our 'players to watch' predictions for 2019/20
Whilst we await the recommencement of the 2019/20 season, now might be as good a time as any – with just a small handful of games left to...
![From the Archives: The best player from every country in club history! [August 2019]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/43bee9_62f4c7aa56a743caaf2932c51531c00b~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_909,h_683,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/43bee9_62f4c7aa56a743caaf2932c51531c00b~mv2.jpg)
Josh Gribling
May 16, 20209 min read
From the Archives: The best player from every country in club history! [August 2019]
Since the club’s inaugural season in 2010/11, players of 24 different nationalities have turned out for Melbourne Heart/City at the...
![From the Archives: Best XI of players to have played at both Heart/City and Adelaide [October 2019]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/43bee9_afdb6ce7e743445ab6f1d8226fdbc926~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_921,h_692,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/43bee9_afdb6ce7e743445ab6f1d8226fdbc926~mv2.jpg)
Josh Gribling
May 6, 20205 min read
From the Archives: Best XI of players to have played at both Heart/City and Adelaide [October 2019]
The eyebrow-raising abundance of players to have turned out for both Melbourne Heart/City and Adelaide United really just typifies the...
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