The Newcastle Jets Gazette
Boardroom23 Oct 2028
Newcastle Jets run out of patience with Tyler Hamilton
The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Tyler Hamilton clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.
Squad23 Oct 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Joe Shaughnessy
120 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.
The terraces23 Oct 2028
Anger at Newcastle Jets spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom23 Oct 2028
Toby Mason steps up at Newcastle Jets for now
“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.
Player ratings23 Oct 2028
Age has not caught Zach Clough yet — 7.82
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.82 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
James Nieuwenhuizen keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Newcastle Jets may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match21 Oct 2028
Still nobody has beaten Newcastle Jets
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Boardroom23 Oct 2028
5 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.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Daniel Wilmering 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.
In brief
- Market Keanu Morrison steps up from the Newcastle Jets academy
- Market One of our own: Eli Ross joins the Newcastle Jets first team
- Market One of our own: Craig Watson joins the Newcastle Jets first team