Luke Walker

Striker - Auckland FC
14 Oct 2032
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316 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

16 Aug 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad16 Aug 2032

Carlo Armiento breaks a bone — 22 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 22 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market16 Aug 2032

Only the photograph left for Logan Sambrook

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Logan Sambrook will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Auckland FC the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad16 Aug 2032

Lachlan Brook 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.

Squad16 Aug 2032

Jake Brimmer 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.

Market16 Aug 2032

Wellington Phoenix watching Luka Vicelich

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Auckland FC have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad16 Aug 2032

Jonty Bidois gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

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312 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

19 Jul 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Jul 2032

A fracture rules Carlo Armiento out for 51 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Auckland FC will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad19 Jul 2032

Lachlan Brook 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.

Squad19 Jul 2032

Guillermo May 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.

Market19 Jul 2032

Wellington Phoenix are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Auckland FC will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad19 Jul 2032

Lachlan Brook has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Auckland FC 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.

Market19 Jul 2032

Lachlan Brook linked with a move away

The name of Lachlan Brook keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Auckland FC say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

308 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

21 Jun 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Jun 2032

Logan Rogerson damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad21 Jun 2032

Carlo Armiento breaks a bone — 80 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 80 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market21 Jun 2032

Auckland FC say no — this time

The offer from Wellington Phoenix for Luka Vicelich was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad21 Jun 2032

Lachlan Brook 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.

Squad21 Jun 2032

Jake Brimmer 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.

Market21 Jun 2032

Lachlan Brook linked with a move away

The name of Lachlan Brook keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Auckland FC say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

286 Edition

The Auckland FC Sentinel

19 Jan 2032
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match17 Jan 2032

Guillermo May leads the rout of Melbourne City

4‑1, and Guillermo May took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Auckland FC tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad19 Jan 2032

Matt Dibley-Dias keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Auckland FC may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings19 Jan 2032

Guillermo May, 33, rolls back the years — 9.47

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.47 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad19 Jan 2032

Tempers go at Auckland FC

Daniel Hall 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.

Squad19 Jan 2032

Words at Auckland FC training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lachlan Brook 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.

Squad19 Jan 2032

Jesse Randall is carrying Auckland FC

6 goals and a season average of 7.52. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings19 Jan 2032

Nando Pijnaker was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.17. 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 ratings19 Jan 2032

Jesse Randall in the eights

A performance of 8.93 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Market19 Jan 2032

The Mitchell Wilson conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Adelaide United will make the call about Mitchell Wilson this week. Auckland FC have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief