The Canterbury United Gazette
Match16 Jan 2027
The wait goes on for Canterbury United
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Oliver Wood keeps Canterbury United in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Adam Bell in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Canterbury United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Auckland City tell Canterbury United: Jackson Manuel 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Canterbury United come up short against Auckland City
Auckland City left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market18 Jan 2027
Team Wellington watching Tim De Vries
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Canterbury United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Canterbury United count the cost of losing Oliver Fenton
25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Looking ahead18 Jan 2027
A six-pointer for Canterbury United
Hawke's Bay United next, and both sides can do the sum. Win and the table looks different; lose and it looks the way everybody has been fearing.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Winston Waine runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Squad Canterbury United count the cost of losing Kosta Fenton
- The dugout Matt Waine faces the questions
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Stefan Barbarouses's mistake