The Team Wellington Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Dane Boxall
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Team Wellington have done the hard part with Waitakere United, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Team Wellington
Matthew Acton and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Team Wellington rebuffed over Ryan Cacace
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hawke's Bay United have kept their man, and Team Wellington go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sam Garbett steps up from the Team Wellington academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sam Garbett has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Marco Cacace joins the Team Wellington first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marco Cacace is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Team Wellington promote Tim Boxall from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tim Boxall 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Sam Boxall joins the Team Wellington first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Sam Boxall is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Steven Lustica needs a bigger stage
He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Team Wellington know which stage they are at.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Team Wellington are still strangers to each other
13 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
- Squad The formation has left Christian Bracco behind
- The dugout Ilisoni Lolaivalu knocks on the manager's door