The Waitakere United Sentinel
Squad8 Nov 2027
Marco Colvey breaks a bone — 111 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 111 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market8 Nov 2027
Chris Boxall puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Waitakere United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match8 Nov 2027
Waitakere United sink to position 6
3 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match6 Nov 2027
No end in sight to Waitakere United's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Waitakere United has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Waitakere United
Zach Lisolajski 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Waitakere United count the cost of losing Cameron Sutton
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market8 Nov 2027
Dane Lockyer told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Dane Lockyer has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Waitakere United.
Squad8 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Christian Bracco
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Chris De Vries stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.52 on the card, and the Waitakere United support went home talking about one name.
In brief
- Match Waitakere United and Canterbury United take a point apiece
- Player ratings Dane Nelson could not find anything
- Player ratings Chris Boxall runs at them all day