Dane Boxall

Central Midfielder - Waitakere United
5 Dec 2026
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Marked for Dane Boxall

18 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad30 Nov 2026

Kosta Reid damages knee ligaments — 20 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market30 Nov 2026

Noah Garbett puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Waitakere United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Nobody could get near Dane Boxall

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Olanrewaju Ayinla 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.

Squad30 Nov 2026

Joel Obi 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.

Match28 Nov 2026

Waitakere United get the job done against Southern United

A 1‑0 win over Southern United, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad9 Nov 2026

James Tuiloma breaks a bone — 24 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 24 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Kosta Reid damages knee ligaments — 43 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 43 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match9 Nov 2026

Every point is an argument now for Waitakere United

Position 7 and 2 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad9 Nov 2026

A day James Stamatelopoulos will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Squad9 Nov 2026

Noah Van Hattum keeps Waitakere United in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match7 Nov 2026

4 matches without a win for Waitakere United

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Waitakere United are no longer polite ones.

Match7 Nov 2026

Waitakere United come up short against Canterbury United

Canterbury United left with the points after a 3‑5 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Match7 Nov 2026

8 goals as Waitakere United and Canterbury United go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Waitakere United and Canterbury United, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Player ratings9 Nov 2026

James Stamatelopoulos was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.41. 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.

In brief

14 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad2 Nov 2026

James Tuiloma breaks a bone — 31 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 31 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Kosta Reid damages knee ligaments — 50 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 50 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market2 Nov 2026

Joe Stamatelopoulos asks to leave Waitakere 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Winston De Vries keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Waitakere United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Sam Rufer 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 Waitakere United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match31 Oct 2026

WaiBOP United take the points off Waitakere United

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Nobody could get near Dane Boxall

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

James Stamatelopoulos takes the honours

Marked 7.96 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Waitakere United had the best player on the pitch.

Market2 Nov 2026

Waitakere United and Olanrewaju Ayinla are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

13 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Oct 2026

James Tuiloma breaks a bone — 38 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Kosta Reid damages knee ligaments — 57 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 57 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Dane Boxall runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Words at Waitakere United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Olanrewaju Ayinla is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Joe Stamatelopoulos 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.

Match24 Oct 2026

Honours even between Waitakere United and Hawke's Bay United

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

12 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad19 Oct 2026

James Tuiloma breaks a bone — 45 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Kosta Reid

65 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Waitakere United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market19 Oct 2026

Noah Garbett asks to leave Waitakere 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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A late step up for Dane Smith

At 30 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Boardroom19 Oct 2026

Graduation day at Waitakere United

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Dane Boxall signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dane Boxall commits to Waitakere United for another 3 years.

Market19 Oct 2026

Tommy Fenton steps up from the Waitakere United academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tommy Fenton has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market19 Oct 2026

Waitakere United promote Cameron Lewis from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cameron Lewis has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market19 Oct 2026

One of our own: Kosta Fenton joins the Waitakere United first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Kosta Fenton is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief

7 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Sep 2026

A fracture rules James Tuiloma out for 81 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Kosta Reid damages knee ligaments — 103 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 103 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market14 Sep 2026

Kosta Reid asks to leave Waitakere 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Chris Nelson is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 21 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Dane Boxall has improved at 24, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Market14 Sep 2026

Waitakere United and Olanrewaju Ayinla are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

  • Market The shop window has Joel Obi in it
  • Market The window shut and Chris Nelson is still in the building