The Waitakere United Sentinel
Squad14 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Dane Rufer out for 20 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Waitakere United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market14 Sep 2026
Marco Kirwan hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Waitakere United can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Newport County tell Waitakere United: Tom Davies is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Ilisoni Lolaivalu 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 Waitakere United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
Cameron Boxall has seen enough of Team Wellington
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Waitakere United, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Tommy Just 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.
In brief
- The dugout Callum Nelson knocks on the manager's door
- Market Window shut, Joe Tuiloma still here
- Squad Welcome back, Alex Garbett