Clayton Payne

Defensive Midfielder - Waitakere United
7 Feb 2027
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26 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market25 Jan 2027

Macarthur FC come back empty-handed

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

Squad25 Jan 2027

Jake Sutton: 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.

Market25 Jan 2027

Clayton Payne 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 The request is on a desk at Waitakere United, and it is not being withdrawn.

In brief

Back issues
23 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Nobody could get near Robbie Jackson

Successful dribbles: 42. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad4 Jan 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Stefan Reid

17 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.

Match4 Jan 2027

Waitakere United refuse to drop out of the race

Position 1, 31 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Jake Fenton is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.61 with 19 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Market4 Jan 2027

Ben Payne 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 Waitakere United can pretend not to have heard.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Jake Fenton 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

Winston Reid 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.

Match2 Jan 2027

Still nobody has beaten Waitakere United

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Jake Fenton in the eights

A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief