Alex Waine

Central Defender - Hawke's Bay United
9 Dec 2035
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488 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

3 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad3 Dec 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tommy Colvey

34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hawke's Bay United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad3 Dec 2035

Matt Garbett keeps Hawke's Bay United in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match3 Dec 2035

Hawke's Bay United are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 9 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Market3 Dec 2035

Matt Garbett has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hawke's Bay United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Player ratings3 Dec 2035

Jake McCowatt, 33, rolls back the years — 8.18

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.18 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match1 Dec 2035

Hawke's Bay United see off Canterbury United

Three points for Hawke's Bay United, 2‑1 the final word against Canterbury United in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad3 Dec 2035

Tempers go at Hawke's Bay United

Aaron Evans 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.

The terraces3 Dec 2035

The crowd has taken to Matt Garbett

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Boardroom3 Dec 2035

$843.6K on the table at Hawke's Bay United

The board have answered with money instead of encouragement, which is the only answer a manager ever wants. Spending it well is now entirely his problem.

In brief

Back issues
487 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

26 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Nov 2035

A knee injury of the worst kind for Tommy Colvey

41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hawke's Bay United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad26 Nov 2035

Michael Tuiloma takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Player ratings26 Nov 2035

Toby Griffin, 34, rolls back the years — 7.85

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.85 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings26 Nov 2035

A defender's goal wins it for Hawke's Bay United — 7.94

1 for Alex Waine, marked 7.94, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Match24 Nov 2035

Hawke's Bay United are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match24 Nov 2035

Michael Tuiloma the difference as Hawke's Bay United beat Team Wellington

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Michael Tuiloma. 5‑3 against Team Wellington, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Match24 Nov 2035

Michael Tuiloma among the goals in a wild afternoon

8 goals in one match, Michael Tuiloma on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Hawke's Bay United and Team Wellington.

Player ratings26 Nov 2035

Michael Tuiloma in the eights

A performance of 9.83 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad26 Nov 2035

Aaron Evans 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.

In brief

429 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

16 Oct 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market16 Oct 2034

Matt Garbett is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hawke's Bay United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Boardroom16 Oct 2034

A new deal for Ryan Waine

The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.

Boardroom16 Oct 2034

12 academy players handed senior numbers at Hawke's Bay United

The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.

Market16 Oct 2034

Hawke's Bay United promote Clayton McCowatt from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Clayton McCowatt has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market16 Oct 2034

One of our own: Bill Just joins the Hawke's Bay United first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Bill Just is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market16 Oct 2034

One of our own: Clayton Lockyer joins the Hawke's Bay United first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Clayton Lockyer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad16 Oct 2034

Aaron Evans falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad16 Oct 2034

Alex Waine signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alex Waine and Hawke's Bay United agree another 3 years.

Boardroom16 Oct 2034

Hawke's Bay United board go back on their word

Something was promised, a deadline passed, and it did not arrive. Trust inside a football club is built over years and spent in an afternoon.

In brief

409 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

29 May 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad29 May 2034

A fracture rules Ryan Reid out for 19 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hawke's Bay United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market29 May 2034

Joe Smith has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hawke's Bay United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad29 May 2034

Real improvement from Owen McCowatt at Hawke's Bay United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Owen McCowatt is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

In brief