The Waitakere United Sentinel
Market23 Sep 2030
Only the photograph left for Sergej Simic
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sergej Simic will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Waitakere United the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad23 Sep 2030
Words exchanged at Waitakere United
Clayton Sutton 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.
Squad23 Sep 2030
A row about effort at Waitakere United
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dane Boxall was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout23 Sep 2030
When it matters, Cameron Rufer 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.
Market23 Sep 2030
The Cameron Nelson 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.
The dugout23 Sep 2030
Oliver Barbarouses has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Oliver Barbarouses has written the date down.
In brief
- Market Kosta Fenton placed on the list
- The dugout Kosta Fenton asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager comes out for Matt McCowatt
- Squad a squad player is out on the grass again