The Hawke's Bay United Courier
Squad20 Sep 2027
Real improvement from Joe Stamatelopoulos at Hawke's Bay United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Joe Stamatelopoulos is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Dale Edwards 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 Hawke's Bay United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Francis De Vries has improved at 25, 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. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Loan watch20 Sep 2027
Chris Lewis has seen enough of Auckland City
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Hawke's Bay United, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Dale Edwards has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Hawke's Bay United will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market20 Sep 2027
Dale Edwards linked with a move away
The name of Dale Edwards keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Hawke's Bay United say nothing, which says plenty.
In brief
- Market Alex Lockyer leaves for nothing
- Market Michael Smith leaves for nothing