The Auckland City Post
Squad30 Oct 2028
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.
Squad30 Oct 2028
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.
Squad30 Oct 2028
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 ratings30 Oct 2028
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.
Squad30 Oct 2028
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 ratings30 Oct 2028
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
- Match Honours even between Auckland City and Team Wellington
- Market The Mario Ilich talk will not go away
- Market Chidiebere Ukoha runs his contract down
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Liberato Tuiloma