The Canterbury United Gazette
Market31 Aug 2026
Deklan Just has said yes to Hawke's Bay United
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Canterbury United have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market31 Aug 2026
Liberato Barbarouses hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Canterbury United can pretend not to have heard.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Alex Boxall 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Canterbury United
Marco McCowatt 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Noah Stamatelopoulos for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Canterbury United will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Marco Waine
“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.
In brief
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Michael Payne
- Squad Michael De Vries is out on the grass again