Daniel Webb

Striker - Hawke's Bay United
10 Jul 2027
Saturday
Process

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39 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

James Rufer breaks a bone — 48 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Jarrod Martin 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 Hawke's Bay United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ben De Vries 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.

In brief

Back issues
20 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Chris Reid asks to leave Hawke's Bay United

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Jarrod Martin, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.12

A mark of 8.12 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Match

6 matches without a win for Hawke's Bay United

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Hawke's Bay United are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Jarrod Martin 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 Hawke's Bay United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ben De Vries 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 terraces

Hawke's Bay United supporters have found a favourite in Jarrod Martin

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Jarrod Martin has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad

No hiding place for Bill Wood

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bill Wood, and the manager let it.

Match

Hawke's Bay United and Waitakere United take a point apiece

It finished 2‑2, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

Jake Rufer 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.

In brief