The Newcastle Jets Gazette
Squad22 Oct 2029
A knee injury of the worst kind for Joel Sacks
124 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Newcastle Jets lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings22 Oct 2029
Will Dobson runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match20 Oct 2029
The wait goes on for Newcastle Jets
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match20 Oct 2029
7 matches without a goal for Newcastle Jets
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 7 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad22 Oct 2029
Will Dobson stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Will Dobson and Newcastle Jets agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad22 Oct 2029
Tempers go at Newcastle Jets
Zach Clough 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.
Boardroom22 Oct 2029
9 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.
Squad22 Oct 2029
Words at Newcastle Jets training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nikos Vergos 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.
Market22 Oct 2029
One of our own: Peter Roberts joins the Newcastle Jets first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Peter Roberts 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 Isaac Anderson steps up from the Newcastle Jets academy
- Market Newcastle Jets promote Robbie Evans from within
- Market Newcastle Jets promote Blake Taylor from within