The Team Wellington Gazette
Match20 Nov 2027
10 matches without a win for Team Wellington
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Team Wellington are no longer polite ones.
Match17 Nov 2027
Team Wellington bow out of the cup
WaiBOP United go through and Team Wellington go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
The terraces22 Nov 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 8 of the 30 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
No sign of nerves from Noah Reid at 17 — 7.93
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Noah Reid did not need any: 7.93, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Joe Bell keeps Team Wellington in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
Age has not caught Cameron Singh yet — 7.86
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.86 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Player ratings22 Nov 2027
A chastening introduction for Matt Boxall — 5.56
It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.56 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.
Squad22 Nov 2027
Marco Van Hattum 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 Team Wellington this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Nov 2027
No hiding place for Marco Van Hattum
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marco Van Hattum, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Player ratings The one thing Alex Stamatelopoulos could not do
- Squad Noah Singh stays put
- Match Team Wellington share the spoils with Hawke's Bay United