The Team Wellington Gazette
Squad23 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tommy McCowatt
73 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Team Wellington lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match23 Aug 2027
Team Wellington are in real trouble now
Position 7, 8 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Stefan Colvey at Team Wellington
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Stefan Colvey is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Francis 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. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Matt Smith 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
WaiBOP United are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Team Wellington will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
In brief
- Market Team Wellington bring in an old head
- Market Matt Colvey leaves for nothing
- Market Bill Cacace leaves for nothing