The Waitakere United Sentinel
Market7 Sep 2026
Alex Cacace 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.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 4 signed and 4 gone
That is the business done at Waitakere United until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Michael Cacace at Waitakere United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Michael Cacace is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Waitakere United
Nathan Garrow 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Auckland City tell Waitakere United: Nathan Lobo 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.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
The window shuts on the Marco Colvey deal
Waitakere United ran out of time with Southern United. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nathan Garrow has outgrown this division
There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Waitakere United know it, and so does everybody who watches him.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Chris Just signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Chris Just commits to Waitakere United for another 3 years.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
James Lewis gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Waitakere United and Bill McCowatt
- The dugout Bill McCowatt knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Window shut, Liberato Stamatelopoulos still here