The Newcastle Jets Gazette
The terraces24 May 2032
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.
Boardroom24 May 2032
Pressure builds in the Newcastle Jets boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Squad24 May 2032
A falling-out at Newcastle Jets
Dalton Wilkins and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad24 May 2032
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.
The dugout24 May 2032
Will Byrne knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Will Byrne trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
The dugout24 May 2032
The manager has not finished forgetting Caleb Murray's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
The dugout24 May 2032
No hiding place for Paul Webb
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Paul Webb, and the manager let it.
The dugout24 May 2032
When it matters, Andrew Lee plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market24 May 2032
Still no signature from Ben Reid
3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Newcastle Jets could get for him.
In brief
- Market The Samuel Aduragbemi talk will not go away
- Boardroom Newcastle Jets keep producing them