The Newport County Courier
Squad26 Oct 2026
28 days out for Jed Osbourne after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Newport County will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Walberto Agámez
“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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Newport County come up short against Oldham Athletic
Oldham Athletic left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Matthew Baker signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Matthew Baker commits to Newport County for another 4 years.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Newport County are still strangers to each other
18 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
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 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Daniel Hawkins to a room that had heard them before.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Matt Dibley-Dias 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Chris Sze dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Courtney Baker-Richardson could have had three
6 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.
In brief
- Looking ahead Kion Etete faces his old club
- The dugout Cameron Evans has become a man the manager trusts
- Player ratings The afternoon ran through Jordan Graham