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Edition
The Team Wellington Gazette
14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Clayton Boxall out for 31 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Team Wellington will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Alexander Butler 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
Tempers go at Team Wellington
Steven Lustica 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.
In brief
- Squad Tommy Colvey has improved at 25, which nobody expected
- Market The window shut and Liberato Lockyer is still in the building
- Market The clock does Richard Roberts’s negotiating for him