The Auckland FC Sentinel
Match19 Feb 2028
Auckland FC win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Macarthur FC will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Louis Verstraete 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 Auckland FC this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Jesse Randall 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.
Match19 Feb 2028
Auckland FC get the job done against Macarthur FC
A 2‑1 win over Macarthur FC, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings21 Feb 2028
A masterclass from Jesse Randall
Marked 8.34 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Defences have started doubling up on Jesse Randall
8 goals and a season average of 7.23 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
In brief
- Player ratings Logan Rogerson turns it into his own net
- Squad Daniel McKay stays put
- Player ratings Lachlan Brook runs at them all day