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589 Edition

The Newcastle Jets Gazette

9 Nov 2037
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings9 Nov 2037

Mark Natta, 34, rolls back the years — 8.52

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.52 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad9 Nov 2037

Will Dobson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Will Dobson commits to Newcastle Jets for another 3 years.

Squad9 Nov 2037

Tempers go at Newcastle Jets

Will Dobson 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.

Match7 Nov 2037

A bad afternoon for Newcastle Jets against Central Coast Mariners

3‑4 to Central Coast Mariners, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Match7 Nov 2037

Oscar Fryer among the goals in a wild afternoon

7 goals in one match, Oscar Fryer on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Newcastle Jets and Central Coast Mariners.

Player ratings9 Nov 2037

Ninety minutes of Will Dobson at his very best

Marked 9.11. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Newcastle Jets.

Match7 Nov 2037

No clean sheets in sight for Newcastle Jets

4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Player ratings9 Nov 2037

One of those days for Oscar Fryer

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.74, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings9 Nov 2037

Xavier Bertoncello was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.18. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

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581 Edition

The Newcastle Jets Gazette

14 Sep 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Sep 2037

Will Dobson 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 Newcastle Jets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Sep 2037

Words at Newcastle Jets training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christian Pullella is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad14 Sep 2037

Will Dobson has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Newcastle Jets will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

545 Edition

The Newcastle Jets Gazette

5 Jan 2037
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad5 Jan 2037

A one-man rearguard from James Delianov

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad5 Jan 2037

Reece Cummings breaks a bone — 49 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 49 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad5 Jan 2037

A day Will Dobson will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Squad5 Jan 2037

Will Dobson is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Newcastle Jets will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Player ratings5 Jan 2037

Age has not caught Mark Natta yet — 8.45

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.45 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market5 Jan 2037

Thomas Bailey hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Newcastle Jets can pretend not to have heard.

Match3 Jan 2037

Will Dobson the difference as Newcastle Jets beat Auckland FC

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Will Dobson. 6‑5 against Auckland FC, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings5 Jan 2037

One of those days for Will Dobson

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 10.00, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Match3 Jan 2037

Will Dobson among the goals in a wild afternoon

11 goals in one match, Will Dobson on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Newcastle Jets and Auckland FC.

In brief

537 Edition

The Newcastle Jets Gazette

10 Nov 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match8 Nov 2036

Newcastle Jets leaking at the back

7 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Match8 Nov 2036

No end in sight to Newcastle Jets's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Newcastle Jets has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad10 Nov 2036

James Delianov 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 Newcastle Jets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match8 Nov 2036

Alex Badolato’s goal not enough for Newcastle Jets

Alex Badolato scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to Central Coast Mariners, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Player ratings10 Nov 2036

Alex Badolato was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.06. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Player ratings10 Nov 2036

Will Dobson in the eights

A performance of 9.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad10 Nov 2036

The manager makes an example of Nicholas Pennington

“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.

Squad10 Nov 2036

When it matters, Mark Natta 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 ratings10 Nov 2036

The one thing Arion Sulemani could not do

Shots: 14, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief