The Team Wellington Gazette
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Michael Just has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Team Wellington can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Boardroom4 Oct 2027
Crisis meeting at Team Wellington
The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Simphiwe Mtsweni signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Simphiwe Mtsweni and Team Wellington agree another 2 years.
Squad4 Oct 2027
James Cacace 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.
Squad4 Oct 2027
Bill Nelson gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Loan watch4 Oct 2027
Michael Payne has seen enough of Southern United
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Team Wellington, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
- Squad The manager's exit leaves Simphiwe Mtsweni exposed
- Boardroom $1.2M taken back off the Team Wellington table
- Boardroom Team Wellington answer back