Ryan Lockyer

Goalkeeper - Waitakere United U20
2 Oct 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ryan Lockyer

26 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Tommy Rufer hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Waitakere United can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Only the photograph left for Dane Lewis

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Dane Lewis will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Waitakere United the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Deklan Sutton 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.

Squad

Waitakere United lose Ryan Lockyer

28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Loan watch

Callum Lewis wants to come home

“I did not go to Auckland City to sit and watch. I want to come back to Waitakere United and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 24 matches say the rest.

Squad

Cameron Smith stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Cameron Smith and Waitakere United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

Back issues
22 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

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 The request is on a desk at Waitakere United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

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.

Squad

Deklan Sutton 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Jai Lockyer

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

Squad

Waitakere United count the cost of losing Ryan Lockyer

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

Loan watch

Callum Lewis wants to come home

“I did not go to Auckland City to sit and watch. I want to come back to Waitakere United and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 20 matches say the rest.

In brief