Sam Reid

Left Midfielder - WaiBOP United
4 Apr 2027
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24 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

No sign of nerves from Sam Reid at 17 — 7.63

The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sam Reid did not need any: 7.63, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Zaharaddeen Bello says WaiBOP United went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market11 Jan 2027

Ryan Lockyer 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.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Tempers go at WaiBOP United

Sam Wood was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Oussama Fatmi 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.

The terraces11 Jan 2027

The crowd has taken to Sam Reid

At 17 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match9 Jan 2027

WaiBOP United find a way past Southern United

Southern United made WaiBOP United work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings11 Jan 2027

A masterclass from Ryan Reid

Marked 8.67 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad11 Jan 2027

Ryan Reid is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.27 with 10 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

In brief

Back issues
19 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match5 Dec 2026

Ben Stamatelopoulos leads the rout of Hawke's Bay United

4‑1, and Ben Stamatelopoulos took the headlines on an afternoon when everything WaiBOP United tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings7 Dec 2026

A brace, and Ben Stamatelopoulos takes the afternoon — 9.56

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ben Stamatelopoulos provided it, and the 9.56 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings7 Dec 2026

Ryan Reid scores twice — 9.36

Two goals and a mark of 9.36 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Ben Stamatelopoulos is the real thing at 16

A season average of 7.09 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. WaiBOP United know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Tempers go at WaiBOP United

Oussama Fatmi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Tommy Nelson stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Tommy Nelson and WaiBOP United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The terraces7 Dec 2026

WaiBOP United supporters have found a favourite in Michael Van Hattum

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Michael Van Hattum has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Squad7 Dec 2026

Deklan Stamatelopoulos 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.

Player ratings7 Dec 2026

Sam Reid runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

17 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad23 Nov 2026

James Wood damages knee ligaments — 20 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 20 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match18 Nov 2026

The cup run ends for WaiBOP United

0‑3 against Team Wellington, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

No sign of nerves from Ben Stamatelopoulos at 16 — 8.71

The hardest thing about being 16 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ben Stamatelopoulos did not need any: 8.71, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

The terraces23 Nov 2026

WaiBOP United are taken apart by Team Wellington — and the town wants answers

It finished 0-3. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Matt Waine: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” WaiBOP United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

A defender's goal wins it for WaiBOP United — 7.38

1 for Jake Garbett, marked 7.38, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Tempers go at WaiBOP United

Oussama Fatmi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad23 Nov 2026

A late step up for James Wood

At 31 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 4 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.

The terraces23 Nov 2026

WaiBOP United supporters have found a favourite in Jake Garbett

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 16-year-old it feels ownership of. Jake Garbett has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

4 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market24 Aug 2026

Monty Wood 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Zaharaddeen Bello 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at WaiBOP United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Liberato Lewis 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