Sam Moore

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29 Apr 2035
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Process

Marked for Sam Moore

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The Newcastle Jets Gazette

16 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Sam Moore asks to leave Newcastle Jets

“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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Andrew Lee

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andrew Lee will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Newcastle Jets the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A row about effort at Newcastle Jets

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ben Reid was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

In brief

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451 Edition

The Newcastle Jets Gazette

19 Mar 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A one-man rearguard from James Delianov

There were 9 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.

Player ratings

Both of them Simon Johnson's — 9.53

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.53, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Andrew Lee, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.88

A mark of 7.88 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Sam Moore puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Newcastle Jets, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Andrew Lee

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Andrew Lee will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Newcastle Jets the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Samuel Aduragbemi 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 Newcastle Jets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Newcastle Jets see off Perth Glory

Three points for Newcastle Jets, 3‑2 the final word against Perth Glory in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Words at Newcastle Jets training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ben Reid 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.

The terraces

Newcastle Jets supporters have found a favourite in Andrew Lee

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Andrew Lee has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

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  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Dean Miller
414 Edition

The Newcastle Jets Gazette

3 Jul 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

Newcastle Jets put Interim Coach 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.

Market

Hayden Reynolds agrees terms with Wellington Phoenix

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Newcastle Jets people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Sam Moore 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 Newcastle Jets can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Andrew Lee is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Newcastle Jets is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market

Auckland FC come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Newcastle Jets did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

James Delianov signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” James Delianov commits to Newcastle Jets for another 2 years.

Squad

Dalton Wilkins 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 Newcastle Jets this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Dalton Wilkins is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 35 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Jake Hollman

Newcastle Jets asked and Central Coast Mariners said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

In brief