Ethan Thomas

Central Defender - Auckland City
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Marked for Ethan Thomas

858 Edition

The Auckland City Post

5 Jan 2043
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match5 Jan 2043

Auckland City are in real trouble now

Position 6, 7 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Player ratings5 Jan 2043

A brace, and Oliver McCowatt takes the afternoon — 9.07

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Oliver McCowatt provided it, and the 9.07 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market5 Jan 2043

Auckland City say no — this time

The offer from Hawke's Bay United for Jordan Burns was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Match3 Jan 2043

The wait goes on for Auckland City

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market5 Jan 2043

Riley Nelson hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Auckland City can pretend not to have heard.

Squad5 Jan 2043

Ethan Thomas is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Auckland City will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Squad5 Jan 2043

Remember the name: Oliver McCowatt

He is 21, he is averaging 7.26, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Squad5 Jan 2043

Bruno Barrionuevo stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Bruno Barrionuevo and Auckland City agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match3 Jan 2043

No clean sheets in sight for Auckland City

5 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

In brief

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855 Edition

The Auckland City Post

15 Dec 2042
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings15 Dec 2042

Both of them Oliver McCowatt's — 9.08

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.08, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market15 Dec 2042

Only the photograph left for Jordan Burns

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jordan Burns will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Auckland City the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad15 Dec 2042

A one-man rearguard from Oscar Page

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match13 Dec 2042

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Auckland City and Team Wellington in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad15 Dec 2042

Ethan Thomas signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ethan Thomas commits to Auckland City for another 3 years.

Squad15 Dec 2042

Tempers go at Auckland City

Alex McCowatt 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.

Squad15 Dec 2042

No hiding place for Oscar Page

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oscar Page, and the manager let it.

Match13 Dec 2042

Auckland City share the spoils with Team Wellington

A 3‑3 draw with Team Wellington leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

Player ratings15 Dec 2042

Nobody could get near Jordan Burns

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

850 Edition

The Auckland City Post

10 Nov 2042
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings10 Nov 2042

Oliver McCowatt scores twice — 8.73

Two goals and a mark of 8.73 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match8 Nov 2042

No clean sheets in sight for Auckland City

9 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

Match10 Nov 2042

Every point is an argument now for Auckland City

Position 5 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Player ratings10 Nov 2042

Up for the corner, and Ethan Thomas delivers — 7.47

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Ethan Thomas scored, was marked 7.47, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad10 Nov 2042

Emilio Giaccone 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 Auckland City this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match8 Nov 2042

Auckland City come up short against WaiBOP United

WaiBOP United left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Match8 Nov 2042

7 goals as Auckland City and WaiBOP United go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Auckland City and WaiBOP United, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad10 Nov 2042

Words at Auckland City training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bruno Barrionuevo 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.

Player ratings10 Nov 2042

Nobody could get near Jordan Burns

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

849 Edition

The Auckland City Post

3 Nov 2042
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 Nov 2042

Ethan Thomas keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Auckland City may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Match1 Nov 2042

Auckland City leaking at the back

8 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Player ratings3 Nov 2042

No sign of nerves from Oliver McCowatt at 21 — 7.71

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Oliver McCowatt did not need any: 7.71, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match1 Nov 2042

A bad afternoon for Auckland City against Hawke's Bay United

1‑3 to Hawke's Bay United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad3 Nov 2042

Bruno Barrionuevo 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.

Squad3 Nov 2042

James Ferguson gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad3 Nov 2042

A month that belonged to Oliver McCowatt

The young player of the month award goes to a 21-year-old at Auckland City who has looked like the finished article for four weekends running. The next four are the ones that decide whether he is.

Market3 Nov 2042

Tommy Barbarouses is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Auckland City has been clear about where Tommy Barbarouses stands, which is more than many ever get.

Player ratings3 Nov 2042

Mark Sullivan runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 10. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

823 Edition

The Auckland City Post

5 May 2042
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 May 2042

Aman Babakhanov breaks a bone — 50 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom5 May 2042

Auckland City put Chris Stamatelopoulos on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Boardroom5 May 2042

Crisis meeting at Auckland City

The official line will be that it was routine. It was not routine, the timing says so, and every person in that room knows what the next bad result costs.

Squad5 May 2042

Bruno Barrionuevo pulls a muscle — 17 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 17 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad5 May 2042

Emilio Giaccone signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Emilio Giaccone commits to Auckland City for another 2 years.

Squad5 May 2042

A move Ethan Thomas would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ethan Thomas is living that version at Auckland City, and it tends to show in the first month.

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