The Canterbury United Gazette
Squad17 Aug 2026
Chris De Vries damages knee ligaments — 32 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 32 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Hawke's Bay 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.
Squad17 Aug 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Team Wellington watching Noah Just
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Canterbury United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tommy Bell stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tommy Bell and Canterbury United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- Market Still no signature from Dane Stamatelopoulos
- Market Joe Lewis placed on the list