The WaiBOP United Gazette
Squad22 May 2028
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Bill Payne
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. WaiBOP United will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad22 May 2028
Samuel Moore 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.
The dugout22 May 2028
Marco Sutton frozen out at WaiBOP United
This is not rotation. Marco Sutton has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at WaiBOP United is pretending otherwise.
The dugout22 May 2028
Jake Garbett has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at WaiBOP 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.
The dugout22 May 2028
The manager makes an example of Deklan Just
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad22 May 2028
Words at WaiBOP United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jai Boxall 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.
In brief
- Market Marco Sutton placed on the list
- The dugout Bill Sutton knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Welcome back, a squad player