Ben Waine

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
2 Oct 2027
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6 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Sep 2026

Not going: Francis Colvey stays at Waitakere United

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” WaiBOP United had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Window shuts: 1 in, 4 out at Waitakere United

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 1 arrived, 4 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Waitakere United rebuffed over Seb Revan

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Wrexham have kept their man, and Waitakere United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Waitakere United

Dane Rufer and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Alexander Pearson is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Alexander Pearson has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Words at Waitakere United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tommy Just is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

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3 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Waitakere United say no — this time

The offer from Canterbury United for Dane Rufer was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Waitakere United count the cost of losing Stefan Stamatelopoulos

40 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

No thanks: Jordan Vale rejects the move

Waitakere United had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Auckland City, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Max Wilson 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.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Wycombe Wanderers tell Waitakere United: Declan Skura 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Francis Colvey pulls a muscle — 15 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 15 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Waitakere United

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tommy Just was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Marco Kirwan

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

Market17 Aug 2026

The Marco Just conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Hawke's Bay United will make the call about Marco Just this week. Waitakere United have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

In brief

1 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Waitakere United

Max Wilson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market3 Aug 2026

Eyes on Cameron Boxall again

The phone has started ringing about Cameron Boxall again, and this time the name on the line is Team Wellington. Waitakere United are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Waitakere United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tommy Just is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Alex Garbett signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alex Garbett commits to Waitakere United for another 1 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

No place for Ilisoni Lolaivalu in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Waitakere United are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

Waitakere United ask about Tommy Payne

A loan enquiry to WaiBOP United: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

In brief