Jai Kirwan

Defensive Midfielder - Waitakere United U20
26 Dec 2027
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35 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces29 Mar 2027

Anger at Waitakere United spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Boardroom29 Mar 2027

The scrutiny sharpens at Waitakere United

Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Waitakere United is running low.

Market29 Mar 2027

Oliver Fenton 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 The request is on a desk at Waitakere United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Callum Smith 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.

Squad29 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.

Loan watch29 Mar 2027

Owen Fenton has seen enough of Team Wellington

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Waitakere United, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief

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25 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market18 Jan 2027

Callum Payne 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.

Market18 Jan 2027

Cameron Smith is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Waitakere United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Match16 Jan 2027

The wait goes on for Waitakere United

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad18 Jan 2027

A falling-out at Waitakere United

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

Match16 Jan 2027

Waitakere United come up short against Southern United

Southern United left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad18 Jan 2027

A row about effort at Waitakere United

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

Match16 Jan 2027

Waitakere United leaking at the back

4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Market18 Jan 2027

Team Wellington watching Owen Fenton

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Waitakere United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Jai Kirwan out for 39 days

The medical room confirms 39 days on the sidelines for Jai Kirwan, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

  • Player ratings Jake Colvey was unplayable
  • The dugout Ryan Lockyer gets it from the manager
  • The dugout The view from the dugout