The Team Wellington Gazette
Match1 Feb 2027
Team Wellington are in real trouble now
Position 5, 12 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.
Match27 Jan 2027
The small margins put Team Wellington out
Out, 0‑1 to Waitakere United, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Clayton McCowatt out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Team Wellington will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market1 Feb 2027
Tim Sutton 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 ratings1 Feb 2027
Deklan Nelson runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market1 Feb 2027
Team Wellington turn down Melbourne City for Alex Cacace
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Bill McCowatt out for 54 days
The medical room confirms 54 days on the sidelines for Bill McCowatt, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Joe De Vries out for 24 days
The medical room confirms 24 days on the sidelines for Joe De Vries, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Clayton Van Hattum 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.
In brief
- Market The Dane Cacace conversation is coming
- Market Window shut, Monty Just still here