The Waitakere United Sentinel
Squad30 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Tommy Rufer at Waitakere United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tommy Rufer is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad30 Aug 2027
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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Deklan Lewis has improved at 33, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad30 Aug 2027
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.
Loan watch30 Aug 2027
Jake Stamatelopoulos counts the days
“I watch every Waitakere United game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Wellington Phoenix runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market30 Aug 2027
The Ryan De Vries conversation is coming
Everyone has stopped pretending: Canterbury United will make the call about Ryan De Vries this week. Waitakere United have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.
In brief
- Market No place for Deklan Sutton in the plan
- Market Deklan Boxall leaves for nothing
- Market Alex Nelson leaves for nothing