Chris Bell

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The Hawke's Bay United Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Chris Bell

20 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Ryan Smith out for 17 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Owen Singh at Hawke's Bay United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Owen Singh is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

In brief

  • Squad Chris Wood has improved at 31, which nobody expected
Back issues
10 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Chris Bell

27 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.

Squad

A fracture rules Ryan Smith out for 24 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.

Squad

Real improvement from Skhanyiso Ncwane at Hawke's Bay United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Skhanyiso Ncwane is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

In brief