Noah Sutton

Striker - Hawke's Bay United
3 Dec 2028
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The Hawke's Bay United Courier

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match8 Jan 2028

Chastening afternoon for Hawke's Bay United

A 0‑4 beating by Team Wellington was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Match10 Jan 2028

Every point is an argument now for Hawke's Bay United

Position 5 and 8 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market10 Jan 2028

Rewa join the queue for Christian Bracco

Add another name to the list: Rewa have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Christian Bracco. The answer from Hawke's Bay United has not changed — yet.

Boardroom10 Jan 2028

Nobody left the Hawke's Bay United 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.

Squad10 Jan 2028

A long afternoon for Callum Tuiloma

Beaten 4 times, with 2 saves for company. Goalkeepers carry these scorelines on their record whoever actually caused them, which is the quiet injustice of the job.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Noah Sutton makes his debut at 16

At 16 years old, Noah Sutton became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.

Squad10 Jan 2028

The plan did not have a place for Liberato Payne

Nobody at Hawke's Bay United is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Tommy Wood knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Hawke's Bay United, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market10 Jan 2028

Francis Fenton leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Francis Fenton leaves Hawke's Bay United the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

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The Hawke's Bay United Courier

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom4 Oct 2027

Hawke's Bay United spell it out for Dane Kirwan

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Dane Kirwan has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Boardroom4 Oct 2027

Crisis meeting at Hawke's Bay United

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad4 Oct 2027

The armband comes off Alex Sutton

Hawke's Bay United will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.

Squad4 Oct 2027

Words at Hawke's Bay United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. James Lockyer 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.

Squad4 Oct 2027

No hiding place for Zaharaddeen Bello

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

Boardroom4 Oct 2027

$867.2K taken back off the Hawke's Bay United table

What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.

In brief