The Waitakere United Sentinel
Squad2 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Oliver Waine
49 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Matt Wood, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.61
A mark of 7.61 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Tommy Lewis runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match31 Oct 2026
Waitakere United come up short against WaiBOP United
WaiBOP United left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Tommy Waine signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tommy Waine commits to Waitakere United for another 4 years.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Waitakere United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tommy 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
- Squad The manager makes an example of Tommy Lewis
- Player ratings Chris Bell changes it off the bench