Tim Rufer

Central Defender - Team Wellington
18 Nov 2029
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172 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

12 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings12 Nov 2029

Nobody could get near Stefan Stamatelopoulos

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad12 Nov 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Callum Kirwan

124 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Team Wellington lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad12 Nov 2029

A fracture rules Stefan Cacace out for 94 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.

Market12 Nov 2029

Only the photograph left for Ben Boxall

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ben Boxall will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Team Wellington the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad12 Nov 2029

Tempers go at Team Wellington

James Cacace 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.

Match10 Nov 2029

Team Wellington come up short against Southern United

Southern United left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

In brief

Back issues
111 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad11 Sep 2028

Tim Smith damages knee ligaments — 45 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 45 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market11 Sep 2028

James Reid’s move to Southern United falls through

The deal that would have taken James Reid to Southern United has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Team Wellington with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Squad11 Sep 2028

Tim Rufer is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 16 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

In brief

107 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad14 Aug 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tim Smith

74 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Team Wellington lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad14 Aug 2028

James Cacace 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 Team Wellington this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Tim Rufer is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 15 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

In brief

99 Edition

The Team Wellington Gazette

19 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad19 Jun 2028

Tim Smith damages knee ligaments — 131 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 131 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad19 Jun 2028

A fracture rules Bill Lewis out for 58 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.

Squad19 Jun 2028

James Cacace 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 Team Wellington this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief