Ryan Cacace

Central Midfielder - Hawke's Bay United
22 Sep 2028
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77 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad17 Jan 2028

Oliver Kirwan gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Oliver Kirwan has just signed for Hawke's Bay United, and for once the answer mattered.

Match15 Jan 2028

Hawke's Bay United cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Market17 Jan 2028

Oliver Kirwan is a Hawke's Bay United player again

He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Chris De Vries signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Chris De Vries commits to Hawke's Bay United for another 4 years.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Tempers go at Hawke's Bay United

Mark Burns 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.

Match15 Jan 2028

Tim Barbarouses sends Hawke's Bay United past Canterbury United

It finished 1‑0, and it was Tim Barbarouses’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Hawke's Bay United.

Player ratings17 Jan 2028

One of those days for Tim Barbarouses

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad17 Jan 2028

No hiding place for Mark Burns

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

Player ratings17 Jan 2028

Marco Colvey could not find anything

5.57. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

In brief

Back issues
68 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

15 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad15 Nov 2027

Clayton Payne damages knee ligaments — 21 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 21 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.

Match15 Nov 2027

Hawke's Bay United up to position 1

10 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market15 Nov 2027

Stefan Colvey 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.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Tempers go at Hawke's Bay United

Dane Colvey 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.

The terraces15 Nov 2027

Hawke's Bay United supporters have found a favourite in Ryan Cacace

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ryan Cacace 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.

Match13 Nov 2027

Ryan Cacace the difference as Hawke's Bay United beat Southern United

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Ryan Cacace. 1‑0 against Southern United, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings15 Nov 2027

Ryan Cacace was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.29. 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.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Victor Odhiambo 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.

Squad15 Nov 2027

Hawke's Bay United pick somebody else ahead of Winston Van Hattum

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

66 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad1 Nov 2027

Clayton Payne damages knee ligaments — 35 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 35 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.

Match30 Oct 2027

Hawke's Bay United leave it late against Auckland City

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 85th, and Auckland City spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Squad1 Nov 2027

Tempers go at Hawke's Bay United

Dane Colvey 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.

Match30 Oct 2027

Hawke's Bay United find a way past Auckland City

Auckland City made Hawke's Bay United work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings1 Nov 2027

Ninety minutes of Winston McCowatt at his very best

Marked 8.17. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Hawke's Bay United.

Market1 Nov 2027

Mark Burns told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Mark Burns has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Hawke's Bay United.

Squad1 Nov 2027

A promise honoured for Victor Odhiambo

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Hawke's Bay United told Victor Odhiambo something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad1 Nov 2027

No hiding place for Winston Nelson

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

Player ratings1 Nov 2027

Tim Barbarouses could have had three

6 attempts, none of them in. He got into the right places all afternoon, which is the hard part, and did the easy part badly — and that is the version of a bad day a manager can live with.

In brief