Cameron Wood

Central Midfielder - Free Agent
19 Jun 2030
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Cameron Wood

190 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

18 Mar 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

The dugout

Simione Seru: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Waitakere United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at Waitakere United

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

Squad

Clayton Payne 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.

The dugout

James Boxall 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 James Boxall trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Bill Just gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Bill Just is on it.

Market

Patrick Tiko leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Patrick Tiko leaves Waitakere United the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

Market

Alex Wood leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Alex Wood leaves Waitakere United the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

Market

Francis Fenton leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Francis Fenton leaves Waitakere United the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

Market

Cameron Wood leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Cameron Wood leaves Waitakere United the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief

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184 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

4 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The wait goes on for Waitakere United

9 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.

Boardroom

Waitakere United spell it out for Biel Molina

The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Biel Molina has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.

Match

The cup run ends for Waitakere United

2‑4 against Auckland City, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Waitakere United

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Player ratings

Dane Garbett, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.05

A mark of 8.05 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

The dugout

Dane Garbett says Waitakere United went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Boardroom

Waitakere United close the window on a squad of their own making

0 in and 1 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Boardroom

Cameron Wood signs for Canterbury United while still at Waitakere United

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Cameron Wood has agreed terms with Canterbury United for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Market

Southern United watching Bill Just

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Waitakere United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

In brief