Jake Kirwan

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Canterbury United U18
31 Jan 2027
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Marked for Jake Kirwan

17 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Liberato Van Hattum could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 8.83

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 8.83, 3 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Ryan Boxall runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match18 Nov 2026

Cup progress for Canterbury United

A 5‑3 win over Hawke's Bay United, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Match21 Nov 2026

A 2-goal lead gone for Canterbury United

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Auckland City kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Canterbury United will be asked about the last half hour all week.

Squad23 Nov 2026

3 goals for Liberato Van Hattum

The match ball belongs to Liberato Van Hattum, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

Bill De Vries, 17, plays like he has been here for years — 8.30

A mark of 8.30 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 17-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market23 Nov 2026

Jake Kirwan 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 Canterbury United can pretend not to have heard.

Match21 Nov 2026

Canterbury United leaking at the back

6 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.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Alex Rufer signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alex Rufer commits to Canterbury United for another 4 years.

In brief

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13 Edition

The Canterbury United Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Oct 2026

Tommy Wood takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Market26 Oct 2026

Jake Kirwan 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 Canterbury United can pretend not to have heard.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Matt Fenton at Canterbury United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Matt Fenton is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Alex Tuiloma 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 Canterbury United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match24 Oct 2026

Tommy Wood among the goals in a wild afternoon

8 goals in one match, Tommy Wood on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Canterbury United and WaiBOP United.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Ninety minutes of Tommy Wood at his very best

Marked 8.89. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Canterbury United.

Match24 Oct 2026

Canterbury United and WaiBOP United take a point apiece

It finished 4‑4, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Matt Fenton signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matt Fenton commits to Canterbury United for another 3 years.

Loan watch26 Oct 2026

James Wood wants to come home

“I did not go to Melbourne Victory to sit and watch. I want to come back to Canterbury United and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.

In brief