Jet Dyer

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21 Sep 2027
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Process

Marked for Jet Dyer

54 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

9 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Alex Tuiloma out for 58 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Waitakere United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Jai Wood 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Waitakere United

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

Transfer targets

Waitakere United ask about Adam Mitchell

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

The dugout

Ilisoni Lolaivalu 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 dugout

Ben Nelson has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Waitakere United will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

Back issues
44 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Tim Just out for 23 days

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

Squad

A falling-out at Waitakere United

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

Squad

5 new faces, and Waitakere 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.

Squad

Jet Dyer signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jet Dyer and Waitakere United agree another 3 years.

The dugout

When it matters, Alex Cacace plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Deklan Tuiloma 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.

Market

The Alex Cacace talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Waitakere United know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market

The shop window has Ben Nelson in it

Waitakere United have let the market know Ben Nelson can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Market

Waitakere United shop where it costs nothing

Jet Dyer signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.

In brief