Simon Walker

Central Midfielder - Hawke's Bay United
20 Feb 2028
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24 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Fee done, terms next for Nathan Lobo

Hawke's Bay United and Auckland City have settled on $510.0K. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Hawke's Bay United make their move for Francis Rufer

$200.00 on the table at Southern United. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets11 Jan 2027

Hawke's Bay United rebuffed over Winston Cacace

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Southern United have kept their man, and Hawke's Bay United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Match9 Jan 2027

The goals have deserted Hawke's Bay United

3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Hawke's Bay United can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Words at Hawke's Bay United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Payne 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.

Match9 Jan 2027

A bad afternoon for Hawke's Bay United against Team Wellington

0‑1 to Team Wellington, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

Nobody could get near Jake Bell

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The dugout11 Jan 2027

Matt Colvey: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at Hawke's Bay United

Chris Lewis and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

In brief

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The Hawke's Bay United Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad26 Oct 2026

Clayton Rufer is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 16 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Jai Reid runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Words at Hawke's Bay United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Michael Payne 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.

Match24 Oct 2026

A bad afternoon for Hawke's Bay United against Waitakere United

1‑2 to Waitakere United, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad26 Oct 2026

A falling-out at Hawke's Bay United

James Van Hattum and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Ben Nelson 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.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Matt Colvey to a room that had heard them before.

Squad26 Oct 2026

The first one for Jai Cacace

Every signing waits for it and every press conference asks about it until it comes. It has come, Hawke's Bay United have their man off the mark, and the second one is always easier.

The dugout26 Oct 2026

Simon Walker does not fit this one

Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.

In brief