Jake Sutton

Goalkeeper - Canterbury United U20
4 Dec 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Jake Sutton

98 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Jake Sutton damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market

Tim Stamatelopoulos asks to leave Canterbury United

“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.

Squad

Tempers go at Canterbury United

Kye Shaw 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.

Squad

Kirill Rios gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Kirill Rios has just signed for Canterbury United, and for once the answer mattered.

Boardroom

Canterbury United beat the market to Winston Kirwan from WaiBOP United

WaiBOP United will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Winston Kirwan has pre-agreed a move to Canterbury United, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Market

Auckland City are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Canterbury United will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

Back issues
97 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

5 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jake Sutton

25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Canterbury United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Ryan Barbarouses 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 Canterbury United can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tim Reid is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

In brief

96 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jake Sutton

32 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Canterbury United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Canterbury United refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 19 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market

Michael Lockyer asks to leave Canterbury United

“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.

In brief

95 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

22 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Jake Sutton damages knee ligaments — 40 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 40 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Real improvement from Cameron Lockyer at Canterbury United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Cameron Lockyer is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Kye Shaw 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 Canterbury United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief