The WaiBOP United Gazette
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Ben Tuiloma runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 41. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market11 Jan 2027
Callum Wood puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at WaiBOP United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market11 Jan 2027
WaiBOP United turn down Team Wellington for Noah Boxall
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market11 Jan 2027
Team Wellington join the queue for Liberato Boxall
Add another name to the list: Team Wellington have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Liberato Boxall. The answer from WaiBOP United has not changed — yet.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Kwenzakwenkosi Mbatha 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 WaiBOP United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at WaiBOP United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Francis De Vries 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.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
The afternoon belonged to Chris Fenton
7.46, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. WaiBOP United had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Match9 Jan 2027
WaiBOP United share the spoils with Southern United
A 1‑1 draw with Southern United leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad11 Jan 2027
When it matters, Ben Tuiloma plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
In brief
- Squad No hiding place for Kwanele Msomi
- Player ratings Ryan Smith changes it off the bench
- Loan watch 2 goals on loan for Marco Stamatelopoulos