Régis

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Marked for Régis

17 Edition

The Cambridge United Post

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Cambridge United

Beaten 0‑3 by Shrewsbury Town, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

Words exchanged at Cambridge United

Alex Rolfini and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Cambridge United dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

Words at Cambridge United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Liam Bennett 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.

The dugout

Andrew Hawkins: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑3, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Player ratings

Wrong net for Shayne Lavery

A touch he did not mean and a goal that goes in the book with his name against it. Cambridge United will not blame him tonight and he will not need them to.

Squad

Cambridge United are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout

Aaron Bott dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Liam Bennett

“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.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Cambridge United Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

A hiding for Cambridge United

Beaten 0‑3 by Cheltenham Town, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

Jake Eastwood keeps Cambridge United in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

The step up is real for Aaron Bott

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

A falling-out at Cambridge United

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

Boardroom

Nobody left the Cambridge United dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Andrew Hawkins to a room that had heard them before.

Squad

David Drocco signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” David Drocco commits to Cambridge United for another 1 years.

The dugout

Cambridge United pick somebody else ahead of Aaron Bott

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Shayne Lavery

“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.

In brief