The Newcastle Jets Gazette
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Will Dobson, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.83
A mark of 7.83 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Newcastle Jets
Nikos Vergos was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Newcastle Jets
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Lachlan Rose 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
One of our own: Mason Thompson joins the Newcastle Jets first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mason Thompson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market26 Oct 2026
Sam Phillips steps up from the Newcastle Jets academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sam Phillips 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.
Market26 Oct 2026
One of our own: Peter Patterson joins the Newcastle Jets first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Peter Patterson is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market26 Oct 2026
One of our own: Rhys Mason joins the Newcastle Jets first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Rhys Mason is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad26 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Thomas Aquilina
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Thomas Aquilina, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Player ratings Zach Clough runs at them all day
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Newcastle Jets
- Match Newcastle Jets and Melbourne City take a point apiece