The tall centre back could be Chris Conway? has played for mar reserves for some time. he's 23 btw
Yeah I know Conway and it's good to see him playing again because he wasn't playing at the start of the year. But there's another kid who's quite a bit younger; someone said he was in the initial NZ-20 squad but got injured. I don't know who he is and I know that age group quite well. I think he must be from outside of Wellington. I saw him play once and he really stood out to me; reminded me of a young Ben Sigmund - needs a bit of work technically but big and fast and tough.
I'm able to answer my own question now because I asked someone at the club. They do have a 19 yr old centre back called Jude Fitzpatrick who came from Auckland at the start of the year but has been injured.
So perhaps he simply didn't get picked up because he's been injured. Having said that though Wellington did bring in Nick Branch the u-20 captain and that kid looks pretty damn good.