The Auckland City Post
Squad19 Oct 2026
Regont Murati breaks a bone — 58 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 58 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Elliot Collier
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Age has not caught Ryan De Vries yet — 8.09
At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.09 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Nathan Lobo is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Elliot Collier has improved at 31, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Auckland City
David Yoo 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.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Graduation day at Auckland City
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ryan De Vries sends Auckland City past Southern United
It finished 2‑0, and it was Ryan De Vries’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Auckland City.
Market19 Oct 2026
One of our own: Jai Lockyer joins the Auckland City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Jai Lockyer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Michael Payne joins the Auckland City first team
- Market One of our own: Noah Boxall joins the Auckland City first team
- Market One of our own: Ryan Colvey joins the Auckland City first team