Sam Morrison

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Auckland FC U18
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Marked for Sam Morrison

32 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market8 Mar 2027

Logan Rogerson asks to leave Auckland FC

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Hiroki Sakai signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Hiroki Sakai and Auckland FC agree another 2 years.

Squad8 Mar 2027

Auckland FC lose Sam Morrison

15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad8 Mar 2027

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.

The dugout8 Mar 2027

The manager makes an example of Jesse Randall

“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.

Match6 Mar 2027

Adelaide United take the points off Auckland FC

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout8 Mar 2027

Hugh Butler answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout8 Mar 2027

When it matters, Sam Cosgrove 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.

Player ratings8 Mar 2027

Nobody could get near Lachlan Brook

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

Back issues
28 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout8 Feb 2027

Logan Rogerson: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Auckland FC have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Oliver Sail stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Squad8 Feb 2027

Auckland FC count the cost of losing Sam Morrison

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

Squad8 Feb 2027

Words exchanged at Auckland FC

Sam Cosgrove 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.

Match6 Feb 2027

Melbourne Victory take the points off Auckland FC

Beaten 1‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad8 Feb 2027

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.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

No hiding place for Jake Brimmer

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Jake Brimmer, and the manager let it.

The dugout8 Feb 2027

Hugh Butler faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Hugh Butler after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Market8 Feb 2027

Auckland FC buy the years ahead of Daniel Graskoski

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

In brief

2 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 Aug 2026

The knee: Francis De Vries out for 119 days

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

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Fee done, terms next for Jay Barnett

Auckland FC and Adelaide United have settled on $650.0K. 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.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

An offer of $1.3M for Angus Thurgate

Auckland FC have gone to Western Sydney Wanderers with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Auckland FC

Louis Verstraete and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Jake Brimmer signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jake Brimmer commits to Auckland FC for another 4 years.

Market10 Aug 2026

Auckland FC promote Harrison Johnston from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Harrison Johnston 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

Auckland FC promote Mitchell Price from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Mitchell Price 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

Auckland FC promote Sam Morrison from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sam Morrison 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: Matt Wilson joins the Auckland FC first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matt Wilson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief