The Auckland City Post
Squad16 Oct 2028
63 days out for Conor Tracey after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Auckland City will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market16 Oct 2028
Tommy Sutton is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Auckland City is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad16 Oct 2028
A falling-out at Auckland City
Bill Stamatelopoulos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom16 Oct 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Auckland City
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Market16 Oct 2028
One of our own: Joe Reid joins the Auckland City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Joe Reid is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market16 Oct 2028
One of our own: Deklan Just joins the Auckland City first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Deklan Just is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market16 Oct 2028
Auckland City promote James Smith from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. James Smith has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Boardroom16 Oct 2028
A promise the Auckland City board did not keep
There was a commitment, there was a date, and the date went past. Trust at a football club takes years to build and one afternoon to spend.
The dugout16 Oct 2028
When it matters, Adam Mitchell 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.
In brief
- The dugout Ashley Charles asks for a word with the manager
- Looking ahead Tommy Nelson goes back to face Southern United
- The dugout Adam Bell has been promised minutes