The Hawke's Bay United Courier
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Kosta Lewis out for 85 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hawke's Bay United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Deklan Fenton signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Deklan Fenton commits to Hawke's Bay United for another 3 years.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Hawke's Bay United
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Monty Singh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match24 Oct 2026
Hawke's Bay United get the job done against Waitakere United
A 1‑0 win over Waitakere United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Callum Stamatelopoulos was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.09. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Hawke's Bay United lose a squad player
20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
Jake Lockyer has seen enough of Team Wellington
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Hawke's Bay United, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Chris Payne: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The form table has caught Dane Tuiloma
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
In brief
- Player ratings Nothing got past Clayton Reid
- The dugout No place in the plan for Deklan Fenton
- The dugout A door opens for Dane Tuiloma