Cameron Lancaster

Striker - Retired
1 Aug 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Cameron Lancaster

40 Edition

The Cambridge United Post

3 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Korey Smith out for 128 days

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

Match

Cambridge United run riot against Shrewsbury Town

3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Squad

Jake Eastwood keeps Cambridge United in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Jayden Danns at 21 — 8.25

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jayden Danns did not need any: 8.25, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad

A row about effort at Cambridge United

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

The terraces

Cambridge United supporters have found a favourite in Cam Bragg

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Cam Bragg 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Jayden Wareham

Marked 8.79 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Player ratings

Sullay Kaikai did the work nobody counts — 7.03

11 combined actions and 7.03. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Player ratings

Fred Onyedinma was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.34. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

Back issues
33 Edition

The Cambridge United Post

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: James Brophy out for 79 days

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

Market

Shayne Lavery 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 Cambridge United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Jayden Danns is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.42 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Cambridge United know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

Words at Cambridge United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Harvey Rodgers 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Cambridge United against Cheltenham Town

0‑1 to Cheltenham Town, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad

Cameron Lancaster 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 Cambridge United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Jayden Danns beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Cambridge United and Jake Reeves are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

The dugout

Nicholas Watson 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.

In brief

27 Edition

The Cambridge United Post

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

James Brophy damages knee ligaments — 123 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 123 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.

Market

Terms done: Ryan Loft is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Bristol Rovers waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Cambridge United is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 7 signed and 1 gone

That is the business done at Cambridge United until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Player ratings

Fred Onyedinma was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Match

Whatever happens, Cambridge United do not lose

6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Words at Cambridge United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Harvey Rodgers 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Riccardo Tonin

Cambridge United asked and Südtirol said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words exchanged at Cambridge United

Sullay Kaikai 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.

Squad

Dominic Ball is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Dominic Ball has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

In brief

1 Edition

The Cambridge United Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dominic Ball stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Dominic Ball and Cambridge United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Cambridge United

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

Transfer targets

Door shut on Shayden Morris

Cambridge United asked and Luton Town said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at Cambridge United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kelland Watts 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.

Market

Nobody at Cambridge United has picked up the phone to Dominic Ball

36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Squad

The formation has left Jayden Wareham behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Cambridge United will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

Transfer targets

Cambridge United ask about Cam Bragg

A loan enquiry to Southampton: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Cambridge United ask about Aaron Bott

A loan enquiry to Nottingham Forest: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market

Cambridge United and Michael Morrison are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief