Dane McCowatt

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Canterbury United
7 Feb 2027
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Marked for Dane McCowatt

25 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Both of them Tim Just's — 8.28

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.28, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Dane McCowatt: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Canterbury United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Tim Just 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.

Match16 Jan 2027

Tim Just sends Canterbury United past Hawke's Bay United

It finished 2‑0, and it was Tim Just’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Canterbury United.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Canterbury United

James Smith 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.

Market18 Jan 2027

WaiBOP United are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Canterbury United will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match14 Dec 2026

Canterbury United sink to position 7

3 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market14 Dec 2026

Tim Just 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 Canterbury United can pretend not to have heard.

Player ratings14 Dec 2026

Nobody could get near Tim Just

Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match12 Dec 2026

WaiBOP United take the points off Canterbury United

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Words at Canterbury United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matt Payne 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.

Loan watch14 Dec 2026

Chris Payne has seen enough of Auckland City

“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 Canterbury United, and 1 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad14 Dec 2026

When it matters, Tim Just plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad14 Dec 2026

Callum Barbarouses 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.

Squad14 Dec 2026

The plan did not have a place for Dane McCowatt

Nobody at Canterbury United is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

In brief

19 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad7 Dec 2026

Dane Stamatelopoulos signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dane Stamatelopoulos and Canterbury United agree another 1 years.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Tim Just 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.

Loan watch7 Dec 2026

Ryan Wood wants to come home

“I did not go to Melbourne City to sit and watch. I want to come back to Canterbury United and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.

In brief

10 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Oct 2026

James Waine 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

James Just has improved at 24, 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. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Dane McCowatt signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dane McCowatt and Canterbury United agree another 1 years.

In brief