Bill Sutton

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Marked for Bill Sutton

26 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market25 Jan 2027

Callum Wood puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Team Wellington, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Chris Waine: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Team Wellington have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market25 Jan 2027

Joe Lewis is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Team Wellington is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Owen Smith scores twice — 8.47

Two goals and a mark of 8.47 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market4 Jan 2027

Deklan 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.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Age has not caught Tommy Wood yet — 8.11

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.11 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Team Wellington

Ryan Barbarouses 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.

Match2 Jan 2027

Team Wellington get the job done against Canterbury United

A 3‑1 win over Canterbury United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Market4 Jan 2027

Eyes on Joe Lewis again

The phone has started ringing about Joe Lewis again, and this time the name on the line is Southern United. Team Wellington are listening politely and promising nothing.

The terraces4 Jan 2027

The crowd has taken to Owen Smith

At 23 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.

Loan watch4 Jan 2027

Kosta Singh wants to come home

“I did not go to Auckland City to sit and watch. I want to come back to Team Wellington and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.

Squad4 Jan 2027

A place in the month's best eleven for Ben Smith

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Ben Smith has come out of that comparison in the side, and Team Wellington have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

In brief

2 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Team Wellington say no — this time

The offer from Canterbury United for Bill Sutton was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market10 Aug 2026

Stefan Singh 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Owen Smith stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Owen Smith and Team Wellington agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Team Wellington

Ryan Barbarouses 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Ben McCowatt 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Cameron Stamatelopoulos

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

1 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

Ryan Barbarouses 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Canterbury United watching Bill Sutton

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Team Wellington have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Clayton Waine stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Clayton Waine and Team Wellington agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief