The WaiBOP United Gazette
Squad21 Dec 2026
Cameron Van Hattum stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Cameron Van Hattum and WaiBOP United agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Match19 Dec 2026
Monty Barbarouses’s goal not enough for WaiBOP United
Monty Barbarouses scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Canterbury United, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at WaiBOP United
Francis Nelson 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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Ryan Waine
“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.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Clayton Just answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
Owen Stamatelopoulos runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Ryan Sutton dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A WaiBOP United teenager takes the young player award
James Boxall is 18, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Squad21 Dec 2026
A first team debut at 15 for Liberato Boxall
Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 15. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.
In brief
- The dugout Cameron Bell does not fit this one
- Market The shop window has Marco Cacace in it
- Looking ahead An away day at Waitakere United next for WaiBOP United