The Team Wellington Gazette
Squad6 Sep 2027
Hassan El Hattab damages knee ligaments — 25 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 25 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
Christian Bracco agrees terms with Waitakere United
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Team Wellington people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Team Wellington close the window on a squad of their own making
9 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.
Squad6 Sep 2027
The step up is real for Jack Mihailidis
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
The paperwork begins on Deklan Kirwan
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Team Wellington have done the hard part with Hawke's Bay United, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Team Wellington
Walter Scott 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A late step up for Willem Ebbinge
At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 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.
Market6 Sep 2027
One of our own: Bill Singh joins the Team Wellington first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bill Singh is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market6 Sep 2027
One of our own: Ben Lewis joins the Team Wellington first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ben Lewis is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Team Wellington promote Monty Van Hattum from within
- The dugout Corey Hollman gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Sam Boxall keeps his manager's vote