The WaiBOP United Gazette
Market21 Sep 2026
Joe Stamatelopoulos asks to leave WaiBOP United
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Real improvement from Chris Van Hattum at WaiBOP United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Chris Van Hattum is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market21 Sep 2026
Only the photograph left for Noah Stamatelopoulos
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Noah Stamatelopoulos will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around WaiBOP United the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad21 Sep 2026
WaiBOP United count the cost of losing Liberato Garbett
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at WaiBOP United
Cameron Singh 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A late step up for Cameron Singh
At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Cameron Singh
- The dugout Callum Singh knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The shop window has James Van Hattum in it
- The dugout Liberato Garbett keeps his manager's vote