The Team Wellington Gazette
Match16 Oct 2027
Cruel end for Waitakere United as Team Wellington pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Team Wellington scored in the 90th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
A brace, and Liberato Lewis takes the afternoon — 8.29
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Liberato Lewis provided it, and the 8.29 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market18 Oct 2027
Dale Webb puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Team Wellington, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market18 Oct 2027
Noah Nelson has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Team Wellington they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Dane Stamatelopoulos 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.
Boardroom18 Oct 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Team Wellington
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Match16 Oct 2027
Liberato Lewis the difference as Team Wellington beat Waitakere United
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Liberato Lewis. 3‑2 against Waitakere United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Sam Payne 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.
Market18 Oct 2027
Team Wellington promote Noah Nelson from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Noah Nelson 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Cameron Colvey joins the Team Wellington first team
- Player ratings Sam Payne in the eights
- Squad Liberato Colvey gets it from the manager