The Waitakere United Sentinel
Market31 Aug 2026
Waitakere United sell their best player to Hawke's Bay United
$80.0K is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Supporters turn on the $80.0K sale of Rory McDonald
He is going to Hawke's Bay United, the club has $80.0K it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.
Market31 Aug 2026
Noah Boxall 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Waitakere United
Marco 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Hamza Asrir 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Hamza Asrir
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Market WaiBOP United are about to pick up the phone
- Squad Owen Bell loses a friend at Waitakere United
- Market Joe Kirwan leaves on loan