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464 Edition

The Newport County Courier

18 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets18 Jun 2035

Nicholas Dixon is a medical away from Newport County

The deal with Bristol Rovers is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad18 Jun 2035

A falling-out at Newport County

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

Squad18 Jun 2035

A row about effort at Newport County

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

Transfer targets18 Jun 2035

Newport County rebuffed over Teddy Sharman-Lowe

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

Squad18 Jun 2035

Mark Davis stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Mark Davis and Newport County agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets18 Jun 2035

A loan move for Joel Philbert is in the works

Newport County have made the call to Bournemouth. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

The dugout18 Jun 2035

Joshua Toluwaloju 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.

The dugout18 Jun 2035

The manager makes an example of Steven Fisher

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market18 Jun 2035

The Antonio Potenza question follows Newport County around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Antonio Potenza’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

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444 Edition

The Newport County Courier

29 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets29 Jan 2035

Too dear: Newport County walk away from Harry Butler

$34.0K was the most the club would pay and Leicester City were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad29 Jan 2035

Ernesto Pontoriero 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.

Transfer targets29 Jan 2035

Wolverhampton tell Newport County: Ibrahim El Asyuti 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.

Match27 Jan 2035

A bad afternoon for Newport County against Sheffield Wednesday

1‑2 to Sheffield Wednesday, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings29 Jan 2035

Both jobs done by Santino Duarte — 6.84

A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 12 actions, 6.84, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.

The dugout29 Jan 2035

Ernesto Pontoriero 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.

Player ratings29 Jan 2035

Ibrahim Rabbaj beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad29 Jan 2035

100 appearances for Jephthah Medine

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Squad29 Jan 2035

Mark Davis signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mark Davis commits to Newport County for another 3 years.

In brief

437 Edition

The Newport County Courier

11 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match9 Dec 2034

6 unbeaten for Newport County

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Newport County did not have in the autumn.

Squad11 Dec 2034

Ernesto Pontoriero 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.

Match9 Dec 2034

Newport County find a way past Crewe Alexandra

Crewe Alexandra made Newport County work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings11 Dec 2034

Ibrahim Rabbaj in the eights

A performance of 8.39 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad11 Dec 2034

Samuel Shaw signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Samuel Shaw and Newport County agree another 3 years.

Squad11 Dec 2034

A falling-out at Newport County

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

The dugout11 Dec 2034

A satisfied Stéphane Roche

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Stéphane Roche could afford to be generous.

The dugout11 Dec 2034

Ibrahim Rabbaj has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Newport County will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout11 Dec 2034

The form table has caught Richard Morris

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

In brief

430 Edition

The Newport County Courier

23 Oct 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad23 Oct 2034

Jack Barrett stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match21 Oct 2034

Newport County cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

The dugout23 Oct 2034

Tommy Goodger keeps the receipts

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

Squad23 Oct 2034

A row about effort at Newport County

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

Match21 Oct 2034

Joshua Toluwaloju sends Newport County past Plymouth Argyle

It finished 1‑0, and it was Joshua Toluwaloju’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Newport County.

Player ratings23 Oct 2034

Nobody on the pitch touched Ibrahim Rabbaj

7.81, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Newport County had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad23 Oct 2034

Newport County are still strangers to each other

11 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Squad23 Oct 2034

Words exchanged at Newport County

Mark Davis 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.

The dugout23 Oct 2034

Stéphane Roche: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

In brief