Noah Wright

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Newcastle Jets U18
15 Apr 2036
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Noah Wright

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The Newcastle Jets Gazette

28 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The mood at Newcastle Jets has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match

11 matches without a win for Newcastle Jets

The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Newcastle Jets are no longer polite ones.

Match

Newcastle Jets out of the cup

Melbourne Victory ended it 0‑6. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.

Market

Aaron Walsh 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 The request is on a desk at Newcastle Jets, and it is not being withdrawn.

The terraces

A cup hiding at Melbourne Victory leaves Newcastle Jets explaining themselves

0-6, and long before the end the away end had switched from encouragement to something considerably more pointed. Nobody rings a phone-in about losing narrowly.

Squad

James Delianov keeps Newcastle Jets in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Transfer targets

Connor Gallagher is a medical away from Newcastle Jets

The deal with Melbourne City 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.

The dugout

Noah Wright 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.

Match

Newcastle Jets cannot find the net

5 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.

In brief

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The Newcastle Jets Gazette

11 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Newcastle Jets sink to position 11

5 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Only the photograph left for Hayden Reynolds

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

Squad

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.

Squad

Ben Reid 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.

Match

Newcastle Jets come up short against Western Sydney Wanderers

Western Sydney Wanderers left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

Will Byrne 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.

Squad

Peter Beath stays put

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

The dugout

Dominik Schäfer answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Aaron Walsh knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Newcastle Jets, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief