The WaiBOP United Gazette
Squad23 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Marco Wood at WaiBOP United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Marco Wood is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market23 Aug 2027
Southern 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.
Market23 Aug 2027
Bill Garbett is a WaiBOP United player
The fee is $24.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Waitakere United drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Tempers go at WaiBOP United
Marco Fenton 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.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A late step up for James Nelson
At 26 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
The terraces23 Aug 2027
$24.0K for Bill Garbett, and WaiBOP United supporters approve
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Bill Garbett from Waitakere United for $24.0K, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
In brief
- Loan watch Ben Tuiloma counts the days
- Squad Words at WaiBOP United training over how hard people work
- Market Ryan Smith leaves for nothing
- Market James Barbarouses leaves for nothing