The Canterbury United Gazette
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tommy Tuiloma damages knee ligaments — 30 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 30 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market30 Aug 2027
Daniel Mjengu 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 The request is on a desk at Canterbury United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Canterbury United count the cost of losing Kosta Wood
30 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Canterbury United
Kosta 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Marco Kirwan has improved at 29, 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. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Market30 Aug 2027
The Ryan Van Hattum conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: WaiBOP United will make the call about Ryan Van Hattum this week. Canterbury United have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
In brief
- Market Callum Nelson leaves for nothing
- Market Tim Rufer leaves for nothing