The Waitakere United Sentinel
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Francis Sutton
34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Waitakere United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Aug 2026
Kosta Fenton 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Waitakere United say no — this time
The offer from Team Wellington for Bill Waine 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Business is business: Liberato Kirwan goes
WaiBOP United paid $54.0K and Waitakere United took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Waitakere United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francis McCowatt 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Alex Barbarouses 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.
In brief
- Squad Liberato Lewis gets it from the manager
- Market No place for Clayton Just in the plan