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Edition
The Team Wellington Gazette
14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
Deklan Lewis is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Bill Lewis has improved at 25, 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Words at Team Wellington training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Owen Smith is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at Team Wellington
- Market The Deklan Lewis story refuses to die
- Market The window shut and Ben Nelson is still in the building