Jake Coomes

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Free Agent
1 Jan 2030
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Jake Coomes

129 Edition

The Newport County Courier

15 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Lewis Jamieson settles it late for Newport County

The 87th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Lewis Jamieson decided nobody was going anywhere. Barnet had no time left to answer.

The dugout

Josh Magennis says Newport County went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Jake Coomes hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Newport County can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout

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Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jordan Graham

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Transfer targets

Aston Villa tell Newport County: Theo Houston is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Words exchanged at Newport County

Hayden Matthews 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.

Match

Still nobody has beaten Newport County

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

Lewis Jamieson sends Newport County past Barnet

It finished 1‑0, and it was Lewis Jamieson’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Newport County.

In brief

Back issues
114 Edition

The Newport County Courier

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A falling-out at Newport County

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

Squad

Newport County lose Matthew Russell

14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Newport County lose Michael Spellman

64 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match

Newport County come up short against Walsall

Walsall left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

Talks stall between Newport County and Callum Burton

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad

A muscle injury and 14 days out for Jake Coomes

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Newport County will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

The dugout

Daniel Wright answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Josh Magennis gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Bobby Kamwa gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Bobby Kamwa is on it.

In brief