The Canterbury United Gazette
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Canterbury United
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match23 Aug 2027
Canterbury United are in real trouble now
Position 5, 11 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Market23 Aug 2027
Clayton Kirwan asks to leave Canterbury United
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market23 Aug 2027
Winston De Vries agrees terms with Hawke's Bay United
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Canterbury United people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market23 Aug 2027
Canterbury United turn down Auckland City for Oliver McCowatt
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Oliver McCowatt at Canterbury United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Oliver McCowatt is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Words exchanged at Canterbury United
Winston Van Hattum 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Michael Sutton has improved at 26, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Canterbury United rebuffed over Bill Boxall
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Waitakere United have kept their man, and Canterbury United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Squad Oliver McCowatt falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Monty McCowatt
- Market Darko Lukic leaves for nothing