Sam Smith

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821 Edition

The Auckland City Post

21 Apr 2042
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Apr 2042

A season's verdict on Oliver McCowatt: the best of his age

Auckland City have a 20-year-old the division has just voted its finest young footballer. The club's next problem is that everybody else now knows it too.

Squad21 Apr 2042

A fracture rules Sam Smith out for 21 days

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

Market21 Apr 2042

Jordan Burns has one foot out of the door

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

Squad21 Apr 2042

Oliver McCowatt 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.

Market21 Apr 2042

Tim Boxall asks to leave Auckland City

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad21 Apr 2042

A move Tim Cacace 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. Tim Cacace is living that version at Auckland City, and it tends to show in the first month.

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820 Edition

The Auckland City Post

14 Apr 2042
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Apr 2042

A fracture rules Sam Smith out for 28 days

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

Squad14 Apr 2042

Remember the name: Oliver McCowatt

He is 20, he is averaging 7.28, and older professionals have started passing to him in the difficult minutes. That last part is the real scouting report.

Squad14 Apr 2042

Tempers go at Auckland City

Abdullahi Abdulhamid 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.

In brief

737 Edition

The Auckland City Post

10 Sep 2040
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad10 Sep 2040

Matt Boxall damages knee ligaments — 114 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 114 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.

Squad10 Sep 2040

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.

Squad10 Sep 2040

Sam Smith signs a new deal

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

In brief