The Waitakere United Sentinel
Market9 Nov 2026
Alex Nelson 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 The request is on a desk at Waitakere United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A first appearance Callum Lewis will want to forget — 5.58
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.58, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Waitakere United
Ben Reid 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Tommy Lockyer 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.
Match7 Nov 2026
A bad afternoon for Waitakere United against Canterbury United
0‑1 to Canterbury United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Noah De Vries 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Bill Colvey
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Waitakere United pick somebody else ahead of Noah Cacace
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A day to forget for Stefan Fenton
Marked 5.64, and generously at that. Nothing came off, and by the end the crowd had stopped expecting it to.
In brief
- Player ratings A day to forget for Oliver Stamatelopoulos
- Market The shop window has Ben Reid in it