The Hawke's Bay United Courier
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tim Roberts damages knee ligaments — 109 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 109 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.
Match4 Jan 2027
Every point is an argument now for Hawke's Bay United
Position 5 and 9 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
James Waine 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 The request is on a desk at Hawke's Bay United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The step up is real for Chris Garbett
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Waitakere United tell Hawke's Bay United: Winston Fenton is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A falling-out at Hawke's Bay United
Cameron Singh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Looking ahead4 Jan 2027
Hawke's Bay United face Southern United in the game that matters most
Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Hawke's Bay United ask about Winston Fenton
A loan enquiry to Waitakere United: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Squad4 Jan 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Sam Cacace
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Sam Cacace has come out of that comparison in the side, and Hawke's Bay United have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Michael Waine
- The dugout Chris Cacace is still paying for one afternoon at Hawke's Bay United
- Boardroom Open for business: Hawke's Bay United enter the window