Marked for Nicholas Moore
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Boardroom6 Aug 2029
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 41 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Boardroom6 Aug 2029
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Market6 Aug 2029
Harry Steele 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 Newcastle Jets can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
Everything agreed with Adelaide United, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
$430.0K on the table at Brisbane Roar. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets6 Aug 2029
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Sydney FC have kept their man, and Newcastle Jets go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout6 Aug 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ethan Alagich, and the manager let it.
Squad6 Aug 2029
Samuel Aduragbemi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad30 Jul 2029
A fracture rules Nicholas Moore out for 48 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Newcastle Jets will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2029
The paperwork begins on Noah James
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Newcastle Jets have done the hard part with Perth Glory, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
The dugout30 Jul 2029
This is not rotation. Harry Steele has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Newcastle Jets is pretending otherwise.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2029
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Brisbane Roar have kept their man, and Newcastle Jets go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Nikos Vergos 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.
Squad30 Jul 2029
Alex Nunes 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.
Transfer targets30 Jul 2029
Sydney FC have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
The dugout30 Jul 2029
Ethan Alagich asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout30 Jul 2029
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alex Nassiep, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
The terraces23 Jul 2029
Anger at Newcastle Jets spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom23 Jul 2029
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Newcastle Jets
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Match23 Jul 2029
12 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad23 Jul 2029
A fracture rules Nicholas Moore out for 55 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Newcastle Jets will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2029
Newcastle Jets and Sydney FC have settled on $130.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Squad23 Jul 2029
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Newcastle Jets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad23 Jul 2029
Words at Newcastle Jets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikos Vergos 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.
Transfer targets23 Jul 2029
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Atletico Nacional have kept their man, and Newcastle Jets go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market23 Jul 2029
Samuel Aduragbemi is 20, and Newcastle Jets have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.