The WaiBOP United Gazette
Market9 Aug 2027
Liberato Garbett 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 WaiBOP United can pretend not to have heard.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Winston Lockyer at WaiBOP United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Winston Lockyer is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market9 Aug 2027
Canterbury United watching Joe Stamatelopoulos
The interest is real enough to have reached print. WaiBOP United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad9 Aug 2027
A falling-out at WaiBOP United
Cameron Singh and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Kosta Cacace 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.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Stefan McCowatt signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Stefan McCowatt commits to WaiBOP United for another 2 years.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
Bill Kirwan gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Bill Kirwan is on it.
The dugout9 Aug 2027
Chris Van Hattum asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market9 Aug 2027
Caleb Henderson leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Caleb Henderson leaves WaiBOP United the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Michael Sutton leaves for nothing
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Joe Stamatelopoulos