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Marked for Dane Sutton

41 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

10 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 May 2027

Owen Dale 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.

Market10 May 2027

Team Wellington promote Noah Tuiloma from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Noah Tuiloma has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

The dugout10 May 2027

Ruon Tongyik gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Ruon Tongyik is on it.

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31 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

1 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout1 Mar 2027

Noah McCowatt keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Team Wellington may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Tempers go at Team Wellington

Steven Lustica 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.

Boardroom1 Mar 2027

Jordan Vale will join Team Wellington for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Jordan Vale has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Team Wellington have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

The dugout1 Mar 2027

Willem Ebbinge has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Team Wellington will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market1 Mar 2027

Winston Waine brings the grey hairs Team Wellington lacked

At 35, he has seen every situation this season can produce, twice. The legs will be managed; the head is the purchase.

Squad1 Mar 2027

Team Wellington have started building around Alex Nelson

He used to be one of the options. He is now one of the men the options are picked around, and the change happened quietly enough that only the dressing room noticed on the day.

In brief

26 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad25 Jan 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Matthew Acton

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

Squad25 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Team Wellington

Steven Lustica and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad25 Jan 2027

James Barbarouses 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.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Dane Sutton stays put

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

The dugout25 Jan 2027

When it matters, Owen Dale plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout25 Jan 2027

The manager makes an example of Michael Kirwan

“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

10 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Oct 2026

The knee: Matthew Acton out for 149 days

149 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Team Wellington lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad5 Oct 2026

The step up is real for Corey Hollman

At 22 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Team Wellington count the cost of losing Dane Sutton

41 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief