Oliver Just

Left Back - Team Wellington U20
22 Jan 2028
Saturday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 4 Transfers Relations Events 64 Awards Matches History

Marked for Oliver Just

77 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad17 Jan 2028

Liberato Tuiloma keeps Team Wellington in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 12 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad17 Jan 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oliver Just

31 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.

Player ratings17 Jan 2028

Nothing got past Ryan Van Hattum

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 29 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings17 Jan 2028

No sign of nerves from Liberato Colvey at 20 — 7.69

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Liberato Colvey did not need any: 7.69, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Dane Stamatelopoulos in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Team Wellington this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Jan 2028

A move Cameron Garbett would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Cameron Garbett is living that version at Team Wellington, and it tends to show in the first month.

The terraces17 Jan 2028

The crowd has taken to Liberato Tuiloma

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match15 Jan 2028

Team Wellington find a way past WaiBOP United

WaiBOP United made Team Wellington work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Market17 Jan 2028

Team Wellington sign Cameron Garbett, one for the future

Cameron Garbett is 18, and Team Wellington have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

In brief

Back issues
24 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad11 Jan 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oliver Just

20 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.

Match11 Jan 2027

Team Wellington sink to position 5

12 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market11 Jan 2027

Cameron Singh asks to leave Team Wellington

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Team Wellington

Dane Stamatelopoulos 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.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Words at Team Wellington training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sam Payne is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

Nobody could get near Deklan Waine

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market11 Jan 2027

Canterbury United expected to open talks for Noah Nelson

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Team Wellington will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Michael Payne gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market11 Jan 2027

Kosta Smith told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Kosta Smith has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Team Wellington.

In brief

23 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad4 Jan 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oliver Just

27 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.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Monty Garbett says Team Wellington went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market4 Jan 2027

Winston Rufer asks to leave Team Wellington

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Dane Stamatelopoulos in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Team Wellington this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match2 Jan 2027

Sam Payne sends Team Wellington past Canterbury United

It finished 2‑1, and it was Sam Payne’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Team Wellington.

The terraces4 Jan 2027

Team Wellington supporters have found a favourite in Sam Payne

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Sam Payne has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad4 Jan 2027

No hiding place for Liberato Tuiloma

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Liberato Tuiloma, and the manager let it.

Loan watch4 Jan 2027

Winston Kirwan wants to come home

“I did not go to Wellington Phoenix to sit and watch. I want to come back to Team Wellington and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Sam Payne takes the honours

Marked 7.68 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Team Wellington had the best player on the pitch.

In brief

22 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad28 Dec 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Oliver Just

34 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.

Match26 Dec 2026

No end in sight to Team Wellington's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Team Wellington has to find a result from somewhere.

Match26 Dec 2026

Chastening afternoon for Team Wellington

A 0‑3 beating by Southern United was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market28 Dec 2026

Alex Garbett 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 Team Wellington can pretend not to have heard.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Tempers go at Team Wellington

Dane Stamatelopoulos 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.

Match26 Dec 2026

The goals have deserted Team Wellington

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Team Wellington can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad28 Dec 2026

Words at Team Wellington training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sam Payne is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad28 Dec 2026

No hiding place for Sam Payne

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sam Payne, and the manager let it.

Boardroom28 Dec 2026

Nobody left the Team Wellington dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

In brief