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The WaiBOP United Gazette
12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Michael Singh damages knee ligaments — 94 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 94 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad12 Oct 2026
WaiBOP United lose Kosta Reid
68 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Winston Just at WaiBOP United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Winston Just is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
In brief
- Squad Late improvement for Clayton Cacace
- The dugout Winston Just knocks on the manager's door
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Hawke's Bay United
- The dugout The manager comes out for Callum Boxall