Kye Simpson

Left Back - Wellington Phoenix
15 Feb 2032
Sunday
Process

Marked for Kye Simpson

261 Edition

The Wellington Phoenix Gazette

28 Jul 2031
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Bill Tuiloma out for 66 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Wellington Phoenix will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Adrian Harris has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Wellington Phoenix they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Words exchanged at Wellington Phoenix

Fin Conchie and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Real improvement from Kye Simpson at Wellington Phoenix

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kye Simpson is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets

Newcastle Jets tell Wellington Phoenix: Jackson Walsh is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout

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Transfer targets

A loan move for Lucas Johnson is in the works

Wellington Phoenix have made the call to Melbourne Victory. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout

Matt Sheridan gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Matt Sheridan is on it.

Market

Matt Sheridan linked with a move away

The name of Matt Sheridan keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Wellington Phoenix say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

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216 Edition

The Wellington Phoenix Gazette

16 Sep 2030
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at Wellington Phoenix 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.

The dugout

James Jackson keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Words exchanged at Wellington Phoenix

Bill Tuiloma and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

The step up is real for Kye Simpson

At 16 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Transfer targets

Wellington Phoenix rebuffed over Alex Nassiep

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Melbourne Victory have kept their man, and Wellington Phoenix go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Joel Anderson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Joel Anderson commits to Wellington Phoenix for another 4 years.

In brief