Tim Sutton

Goalkeeper - Southern United
1 Dec 2026
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Marked for Tim Sutton

18 Edition

The Southern United Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market30 Nov 2026

Noah Van Hattum asks to leave Southern 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.

Squad30 Nov 2026

A fracture rules Laisenia Tuinakauvadra out for 31 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Southern United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match28 Nov 2026

Still nobody has beaten Southern United

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Southern United

Monty McCowatt 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.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Noah Van Hattum falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Looking ahead30 Nov 2026

The big one: Auckland City come into view

Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Southern United will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

No hiding place for Kosta McCowatt

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Kosta McCowatt, and the manager let it.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Joe Barbarouses beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Somebody else is better right now than Owen Lockyer

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

In brief

Back issues
17 Edition

The Southern United Herald

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match18 Nov 2026

Southern United through in the cup

A 3‑0 win over Waitakere United, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Chris Lewis could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 8.49

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 8.49, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Match23 Nov 2026

Southern United up to position 2

9 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Both of them Monty McCowatt's — 9.22

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.22, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad23 Nov 2026

38 days out for Laisenia Tuinakauvadra after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Southern United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market23 Nov 2026

Ryan McCowatt puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Southern United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Monty McCowatt 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 Southern United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match21 Nov 2026

Whatever happens, Southern United do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

The terraces23 Nov 2026

One of their own: Chris Lewis

He is 18 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

In brief

12 Edition

The Southern United Herald

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad19 Oct 2026

Laisenia Tuinakauvadra breaks a bone — 76 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 76 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A one-man rearguard from Tim Sutton

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

A debut to forget for Noah Van Hattum — 5.00

Every first appearance is one of two stories, and this was the harder one: 5.00, and a long walk to the tunnel. The second appearance is the one that decides what the first one meant.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Marco Bell at Southern United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Marco Bell is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Dane Reid stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Dane Reid and Southern United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Boardroom19 Oct 2026

1 academy players handed senior numbers at Southern United

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Match17 Oct 2026

Alex Kirwan the difference as Southern United beat Auckland City

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Alex Kirwan. 2‑1 against Auckland City, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

One of those days for Alex Kirwan

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.84, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Market19 Oct 2026

Chris Smith steps up from the Southern United academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Chris Smith has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

9 Edition

The Southern United Herald

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Michael Lewis

22 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Southern United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Joe Barbarouses 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.

Market28 Sep 2026

Ryan McCowatt hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Southern United can pretend not to have heard.

Market28 Sep 2026

Jake Sutton is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Southern United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Monty McCowatt 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 Southern United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad28 Sep 2026

Late improvement for Tim Sutton

At 30 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

In brief