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The Team Wellington Gazette
12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Timothy Atamenwan out for 112 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Team Wellington will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Sam Boxall at Team Wellington
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sam Boxall is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Team Wellington
Steven Lustica 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.
In brief
- Squad A late step up for Ruon Tongyik
- Market Bill Rufer steps up from the Team Wellington academy
- Market Tim Rufer steps up from the Team Wellington academy