The Canterbury United Gazette
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
Bill Barbarouses has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Canterbury United can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Match3 Jul 2028
Canterbury United sink to position 5
15 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Winston Payne breaks a bone — 53 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 53 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Tempers go at Canterbury United
Jamie Hughes 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.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Monty De Vries signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Monty De Vries and Canterbury United agree another 3 years.
Squad3 Jul 2028
Canterbury United count the cost of losing Liberato Lockyer
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Boardroom3 Jul 2028
Canterbury United sign 7 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
Market3 Jul 2028
The Alex De Vries conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Team Wellington will make the call about Alex De Vries this week. Canterbury United have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
Market3 Jul 2028
No place for Alex De Vries in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Alex De Vries has his answer from Canterbury United; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
In brief
- Boardroom $708.1K taken back off the Canterbury United table
- Market Talks stall between Canterbury United and Marco Lewis
- Boardroom Canterbury United answer back