The Waitakere United Sentinel
Squad3 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Matt Waine
39 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Waitakere United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Finn McKenlay gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Finn McKenlay has just signed for Waitakere United, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Finn McKenlay 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Monty Bell 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Auckland City join the queue for Stefan McCowatt
Add another name to the list: Auckland City have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Stefan McCowatt. The answer from Waitakere United has not changed — yet.
Market3 Aug 2026
Waitakere United buy the years ahead of Finn McKenlay
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
In brief
- Market No place for Dane De Vries in the plan
- Market Waitakere United put Clayton Wood up for sale