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Edition
The Waitakere United Sentinel
3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
Joel Obi 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Dane Payne signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dane Payne commits to Waitakere United for another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Owen Garbett 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
- Squad This league is too small for Joel Obi
- Market The clock runs on Dane Payne's contract
- Market Alex De Vries told to find a new club
- Market Waitakere United bring in an old head