Blake Wright

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Newcastle Jets
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479 Edition

The Newcastle Jets Gazette

1 Oct 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market1 Oct 2035

Andrew Lee has one foot out of the door

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

Squad1 Oct 2035

A falling-out at Newcastle Jets

Samuel Aduragbemi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout1 Oct 2035

James Delianov without the man who signed him

Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. James Delianov was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.

Squad1 Oct 2035

Newcastle Jets take the armband off James Delianov

It will be explained as a change for the team and it may even be one. Nobody who has worn one believes that, and neither does the man who has just had it taken away.

Market1 Oct 2035

Talks stall between Newcastle Jets and Ben Reid

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout1 Oct 2035

Aaron Walsh asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

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478 Edition

The Newcastle Jets Gazette

24 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad24 Sep 2035

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.

Squad24 Sep 2035

Paul Webb stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Paul Webb and Newcastle Jets agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout24 Sep 2035

Aaron Walsh asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Market24 Sep 2035

Archie Fletcher is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Newcastle Jets has been clear about where Archie Fletcher stands, which is more than many ever get.

Squad24 Sep 2035

Kai Price has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Newcastle Jets will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Boardroom24 Sep 2035

Newcastle Jets keep producing them

126 graduates from an academy now rated 11 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.

In brief

431 Edition

The Newcastle Jets Gazette

30 Oct 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad30 Oct 2034

The knee: Hayden Reynolds out for 16 days

16 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Newcastle Jets lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match28 Oct 2034

The wait goes on for Newcastle Jets

8 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.

Market30 Oct 2034

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.

Squad30 Oct 2034

A falling-out at Newcastle Jets

Dalton Wilkins and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom30 Oct 2034

Newcastle Jets still without a manager

10 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.

Squad30 Oct 2034

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.

Match28 Oct 2034

Will Byrne’s goal not enough for Newcastle Jets

Will Byrne scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Wellington Phoenix, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

The dugout30 Oct 2034

No hiding place for James Delianov

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

The dugout30 Oct 2034

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

430 Edition

The Newcastle Jets Gazette

23 Oct 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom23 Oct 2034

Interim Coach is out at Newcastle Jets

Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.

Squad23 Oct 2034

The knee: Hayden Reynolds out for 23 days

23 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Newcastle Jets lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom23 Oct 2034

Newcastle Jets have nobody left to take training

Not an interim appointment — an institution with an empty coaching office. Somebody unfamiliar will run the sessions this week, and the question of how a club gets into this state is one the board will be asked and will not answer.

The dugout23 Oct 2034

Will Byrne keeps the receipts

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

Match21 Oct 2034

The wait goes on for Newcastle Jets

7 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.

Boardroom23 Oct 2034

Interim Coach steps up at Newcastle Jets for now

“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.

Squad23 Oct 2034

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.

Boardroom23 Oct 2034

5 academy players handed senior numbers at Newcastle Jets

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Squad23 Oct 2034

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.

In brief