Bill Lewis

Left Midfielder - Free Agent
1 Jan 2028
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29 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad15 Feb 2027

Alberto Delgado 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 WaiBOP United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

Cameron Fenton frozen out at WaiBOP United

This is not rotation. Cameron Fenton has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at WaiBOP United is pretending otherwise.

Transfer targets15 Feb 2027

Hawke's Bay United tell WaiBOP United: Jake Lockyer is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad15 Feb 2027

WaiBOP United count the cost of losing Jai Nelson

17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

Cameron Fenton gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout15 Feb 2027

Noah Singh knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Noah Singh trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Milai Perrot 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.

Squad15 Feb 2027

Competition arrives for Tim Barbarouses

A new face in his position and a shirt he thought he owned suddenly up for discussion. WaiBOP United have promised nothing, which is what clubs promise at this stage.

Market15 Feb 2027

The Sam Sutton talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. WaiBOP United know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

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26 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match25 Jan 2027

WaiBOP United sink to position 7

7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match23 Jan 2027

The wait goes on for WaiBOP United

5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Tempers go at WaiBOP United

Alberto Delgado 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 dugout25 Jan 2027

Tim Barbarouses gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Player ratings25 Jan 2027

Ninety minutes of Chris Colvey at his very best

Marked 8.04. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at WaiBOP United.

The dugout25 Jan 2027

Sam Sutton left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Sam Sutton will call it something else in private.

Match23 Jan 2027

Chris Colvey rescues a point for WaiBOP United

It needed Chris Colvey to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Team Wellington, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout25 Jan 2027

Monty Garbett on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Monty Garbett after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Chris Colvey finally opens his account

He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. WaiBOP United have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.

In brief

23 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces4 Jan 2027

Anger at WaiBOP United spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market4 Jan 2027

WaiBOP United say no — this time

The offer from Auckland City for James Waine was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Ramón Arcas wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and WaiBOP United know it.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Words exchanged at WaiBOP United

Chris Colvey and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match2 Jan 2027

A bad afternoon for WaiBOP United against Auckland City

1‑3 to Auckland City, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Sam Sutton was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

The dugout4 Jan 2027

Noah Singh gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout4 Jan 2027

Monty Garbett faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Monty Garbett after 1‑3, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Transfer targets4 Jan 2027

A loan move for Ryan Wood is in the works

WaiBOP United have made the call to Canterbury United. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

7 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Sep 2026

Reece Henderson breaks a bone — 122 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 122 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market14 Sep 2026

Bill Lewis 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

A falling-out at WaiBOP United

James Waine and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

In brief

3 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market17 Aug 2026

Waitakere United come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and WaiBOP United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

WaiBOP United make their move for Jordan Vale

$70.0K on the table at Auckland City. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words exchanged at WaiBOP United

Chris Colvey and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets17 Aug 2026

Auckland City tell WaiBOP United: Alfie Rogers is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout17 Aug 2026

Noah Singh gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market17 Aug 2026

Team Wellington watching Clayton Wood

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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Djordje Gacinovic stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Djordje Gacinovic and WaiBOP United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Words at WaiBOP United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Reid 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.

Market17 Aug 2026

The shop window has Michael Barbarouses in it

WaiBOP United have let the market know Michael Barbarouses can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

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