Monty Lewis

Left Midfielder - Waitakere United
8 Oct 2027
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56 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad23 Aug 2027

Oliver Garbett damages knee ligaments — 37 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 37 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market23 Aug 2027

Waitakere United say no — this time

The offer from Hawke's Bay United for Marco Smith 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.

Market23 Aug 2027

Chris De Vries has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Waitakere United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Real improvement from Liberato Just at Waitakere United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Liberato Just is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Alex De Vries 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.

Market23 Aug 2027

Team Wellington join the queue for Liberato Just

Add another name to the list: Team Wellington have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Liberato Just. The answer from Waitakere United has not changed — yet.

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48 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad28 Jun 2027

Real improvement from Ben McCowatt at Waitakere United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Ben McCowatt is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Alex De Vries 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.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Joe Sutton has improved at 29, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad28 Jun 2027

Monty Lewis stays put

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

Loan watch28 Jun 2027

Jai Van Hattum counts the days

“I watch every Waitakere United game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Pakhtakor runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Market28 Jun 2027

Jake Bell linked with a move away

The name of Jake Bell keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Waitakere United say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

37 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Apr 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Chris Boxall

74 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.

Market12 Apr 2027

Winston McCowatt puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Waitakere United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad12 Apr 2027

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Joel Obi 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.

In brief

27 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match1 Feb 2027

Waitakere United up to position 1

24 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad1 Feb 2027

A fracture rules Michael Singh out for 20 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Waitakere United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Chris McCowatt: 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.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Tommy Lockyer 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.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Monty Lewis signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Monty Lewis commits to Waitakere United for another 3 years.

Market1 Feb 2027

Hawke's Bay United watching Liberato 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.

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26 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad25 Jan 2027

Michael Singh breaks a bone — 28 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 28 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Oliver Garbett 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.

Squad25 Jan 2027

Words at Waitakere United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jake Bell 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

23 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match4 Jan 2027

Waitakere United are in among the leaders

Position 1 and 21 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Michael Singh breaks a bone — 51 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 51 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market4 Jan 2027

Jai Cacace puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Waitakere United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Jai Cacace is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Waitakere United will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Joel Obi 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.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Jai Cacace in the eights

A performance of 8.56 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Jai Cacace is carrying Waitakere United

10 goals and a season average of 7.24. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Joe De Vries was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.14. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

Market4 Jan 2027

Eyes on Chris De Vries again

The phone has started ringing about Chris De Vries again, and this time the name on the line is Southern United. Waitakere United are listening politely and promising nothing.

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