Jack Tucker

Central Defender - Colchester United
19 Dec 2026
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Marked for Jack Tucker

17 Edition

The Colchester United Herald

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad23 Nov 2026

Thimothée Lo-Tutala 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.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

No sign of nerves from Leon Chiwome at 20 — 7.62

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Leon Chiwome did not need any: 7.62, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Match21 Nov 2026

The wait goes on for Colchester United

5 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.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Colchester United

Miguel Ángel Brau was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match21 Nov 2026

Colchester United come up short against Grimsby Town

Grimsby Town left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

George Lawrence: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Jack Tucker is still paying for one afternoon at Colchester United

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Market23 Nov 2026

Dominic Gape told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Dominic Gape has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Colchester United.

The dugout23 Nov 2026

Junior Vargas left out for tactical reasons at Colchester United

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Colchester United Herald

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

Kyreece Lisbie was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 29. 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.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

Jaden Williams says Colchester United went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match7 Nov 2026

4 matches without a win for Colchester United

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Colchester United are no longer polite ones.

Squad9 Nov 2026

A falling-out at Colchester United

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

Match7 Nov 2026

Colchester United make home a hard place to visit

8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Colchester United count the cost of losing James Sasere

15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

Ben Perry 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.

The dugout9 Nov 2026

George Lawrence on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” George Lawrence after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

A day to forget for JK Gordon

Marked 4.73, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.

In brief

2 Edition

The Colchester United Herald

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Colchester United say no — this time

The offer from Birkirkara for Jaden Williams was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

Colchester United make their move for Emre Tezgel

$810.0K on the table at Stoke City. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Junior Vargas 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 Colchester United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Aug 2026

No place for Junior Vargas in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Colchester United are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Ben Perry stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ben Perry and Colchester United agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market10 Aug 2026

Experience through the door at Colchester United

Junior Vargas arrives at 33 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

Market10 Aug 2026

The clock runs on Jack Tucker's contract

36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

Market10 Aug 2026

Colchester United and Makise Evans 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Miguel Ángel Brau needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Colchester United know which stage they are at.

In brief

1 Edition

The Colchester United Herald

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Colchester United rebuffed over Sean Steur

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

Squad3 Aug 2026

Kyreece Lisbie signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kyreece Lisbie commits to Colchester United for another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Colchester United

Thimothée Lo-Tutala and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

A loan move for Jakov Medić is in the works

Colchester United have made the call to Norwich City. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

A loan move for Miguel Ángel Brau is in the works

Colchester United have made the call to Coventry City. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Squad3 Aug 2026

5 new faces, and Colchester United are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Market3 Aug 2026

No place for Tom Smith in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Tom Smith has his answer from Colchester United; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Jack Tucker handed the armband

The captaincy goes to Jack Tucker. It is not a job that wins matches, but a dressing room always notices who is given it.

Market3 Aug 2026

Nobody at Colchester United has picked up the phone to Kyreece Lisbie

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

In brief