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Edition
The Team Wellington Gazette
5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Deklan Payne at Team Wellington
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Deklan Payne is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Team Wellington
Zolani Nkombelo 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A late step up for James Barbarouses
At 28 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
In brief
- Squad Gavin Bailey signs on for more
- Market Talks stall between Team Wellington and Cameron Boxall
- Market The Francis Rufer talk will not go away