The Waitakere United Sentinel
Match8 Mar 2027
Waitakere United sink to position 6
8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Matt Smith has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Waitakere United can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market8 Mar 2027
Monty Singh 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 The request is on a desk at Waitakere United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Callum Smith 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Bill Waine 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Waitakere United lose Sam Nelson
40 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager's exit leaves Bill Waine exposed
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Bill Waine is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
$735.8K taken back off the Waitakere United table
What was available in the summer has quietly gone. Upstairs nobody will call it a change of ambition; downstairs nobody will call it anything else.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A season on the outside for Tim Kirwan
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Waitakere United has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
In brief
- The dugout Alex Van Hattum knocks on the manager’s door
- Boardroom Waitakere United were not finished after all
- The dugout The manager comes out for Callum Colvey