Josh Gribling

🧵 One pic from every #FIFAWWC match attended, a thread: 20/7/23: 🇳🇿 v 🇳🇴

Melb. City goals + assists per 90 mins (1000+ mins played): 1️⃣ McNamara 1.17 💎 2️⃣ McCormack 1.04 3️⃣ Maclaren 0.85 4️⃣ Arslan 0.84 5️⃣ Mooy 0.83 Is H-Mac City’s best attacking player ever? (Women’s assist data not collected across all comps anywhere, hence G+A/90 not possible)

In 50 games, Holly McNamara has scored 37 and assisted 9 in 3533 mins up to today's 3rd goal (all comps). That's 1.17 G/A per 90, or a goal involvement every 77 min. I don't have the City Women data, but Ross McCormack's 1.04 (City Men #1) doesn't come close. #MCYvPER

Danella Butrus just pulled off this perfect rainbow kick in Melbourne City's #AWCL match against Stallion Laguna. The 18-year-old is flying in her debut season.

@osaussiesadam Even aside from your point, I posted this knowing that it wasn’t going to be impressive to all audiences full stop — some huge names, others not so. I’d invite other ALM fans to share some Academy XIs (e.g. CCM, ADL) and give testament to some of their youth development.

With all due respect, knowing the context of the Australian football system, this isn’t impressive. It’s how a monopoly/oligopoly works.

On the topic of City's Academy, here's (probably) its best XI of graduates: Delianov Atkinson - Stokes - Hall - Bos Genreau - Metcalfe - Valadon Arzani - Caputo - Borges Rodrigues A current total market of £11.1M or $19.8M AUD, according to Transfermarkt. #MCYvPER

Caputo is on fire to start the season 🔥 With that strike, the 20-year-old also surpasses Connor Metcalfe's 11 goals to become Melbourne City's leading goalscorer from its Academy (12). #MCYvPER

@ethanmvfc In the graphic*

@ethanmvfc Great work, would be handy to put their clubs/leagues in instead of Australia though?

AUSSIES ABROAD TOTW 1 With all the leagues underway I’m gonna try and keep a TOTW going considering we have so many players doing well every single week. MOTM ⭐️: Jordan Bos (8.6 rating 1 G, 1 CS, 100% Tackles)

This week, @TalkingCityFC signs off. Fittingly, the curtains will come down just a few weeks after we surpassed 100,000 all-time views on our articles, which we’ve been writing since 2019, an achievement that I’m very proud of. Thank you to MCFC and all who’ve supported us.

Look, this is my best attempt at drawing 2 possible offside lines based on 'mow lines' visible on the pitch in 2 different spots. Even though #2 is closer to the actual angle, it's much less visible, hence why I also used #1. Posted the unedited still to show the lines. #MCYvCCM

Which of Melbourne City's Invincible seasons do you rank highest? #PERvMCY

Incredible achievement by an incredible team. Truly special 🌟

POST-MATCH | 3 points, but we'll have to wait one more week and give it everything against the Glory in order to wrap up the title. For now, we savour a cruisy 4-1 win against a Newcastle team that seemingly had elsewhere to be: #MCYvNEW | @JoshGribling talkingcity.com.au/down-to-the-wi…

POST-MATCH | Three more points in the Dub 😤 Another step towards the Plate, another step towards an invincible season. Here's what we learned from today's gritty 1-0 win away to Wellington: #WELvMCY | ✍️: @JoshGribling talkingcity.com.au/two-more-games…

@mattmcindoe & @MattyBAus return alongside @jenko0923 & @JoshGribling to deliver some bittersweet news as Talking City draws to the end of Season 9. The boys discuss the Dub side's success and preview upcoming games before holding a special, nostalgic edition of Mifsud Moments.

For me, City nailed its marketing this wk. Extensive promotion by club, but also by league = Matildas + non-City fans targeted w/o having to beg to rivals. The 'sign' campaign targeted not only young fans, but invited #ALW-specifics to express themselves & be part of something

POST-MATCH | RECORD BREAKERS. That's 1️⃣9⃣ games unbeaten in the A-League Women following today's epic 4-3 win over Adelaide United. Here's what we learned from this afternoon's rollercoaster affair: #MCYvADL | ✍️: @JoshGribling talkingcity.com.au/of-all-time-th…

@AndyHowe_statto @MelbourneCity @aleaguewomen Is this an all-time Australian Women's domestic league record?

@MelbourneCity going for 19th undefeated game in a row, which would be a new @aleaguewomen record undefeated streak. Current record 18 undefeated also held by Brisbane Roar (2008-09), Canberra Utd (2011-12) and another Melb City streak (2015-16) #MCYvADL x.com/aleaguewomen/s…

The significance of Melb. City’s recent milestone men: 1. Tilio the youngest to reach 100 club games at 23y, 196d — Atkinson 3rd-youngest with Glover 2nd; both aged 25. 2. Atkinson becomes first Academy product to play 100 club games. 3. City now have 10 ALM centurions overall.