Mason Shaw

Left Back - Auckland City U20
7 Feb 2029
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Mason Shaw

118 Edition

The Auckland City Post

30 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Nathan Garrow: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Auckland City have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at Auckland City

Willem Ebbinge 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Conor Tracey

“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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Liberato Tuiloma

Marked 8.51 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Auckland City lose Mason Shaw

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

Player ratings

Willem Ebbinge runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
114 Edition

The Auckland City Post

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Auckland City

Fidel Origa 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.

Squad

Alfie Rogers signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alfie Rogers and Auckland City agree another 2 years.

Squad

Auckland City count the cost of losing Mason Shaw

62 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

No hiding place for Liberato Barbarouses

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Liberato Barbarouses, and the manager let it.

Market

Nobody at Auckland City has picked up the phone to Alfie Rogers

24 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Market

Auckland City and Sebastián Ciganda are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief