Ryan Lockyer

Right Midfielder - Canterbury United
29 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Ryan Lockyer

9 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Real improvement from Ryan Lockyer at Canterbury United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ryan Lockyer is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Tempers go at Canterbury United

Alex Nelson 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.

Squad

Alex Nelson 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. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

WaiBOP United come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Canterbury United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Clayton Boxall 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Canterbury United

Winston Wood 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.

Market

Eyes on Alex Lewis again

The phone has started ringing about Alex Lewis again, and this time the name on the line is Waitakere United. Canterbury United are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Joe Sutton

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad

Matt Cacace stays put

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

In brief