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Edition
The Wellington Phoenix Gazette
21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Henry Gray at Wellington Phoenix
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Henry Gray is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Wellington Phoenix
Bill Tuiloma was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad21 Sep 2026
James McGarry has improved at 28, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
In brief
- Squad Words at Wellington Phoenix training over how hard people work