Joe Sutton

Left Midfielder - Waitakere United
3 Nov 2026
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Marked for Joe Sutton

14 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match31 Oct 2026

Waitakere United let it slip despite Monty Wood

Monty Wood had done his part in building a 3-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and WaiBOP United were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Monty Wood takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Age has not caught Monty Wood yet — 9.50

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 9.50 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Clayton Fenton, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.11

A mark of 8.11 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market2 Nov 2026

Jake Waine asks to leave Waitakere United

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Matthew Marshall runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Pentjie Zulu 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Words at Waitakere United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ubong Williams 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.

Match31 Oct 2026

Monty Wood rescues a point for Waitakere United

It needed Monty Wood to find the net to bring anything home at all: 5‑5 against WaiBOP United, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

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13 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match24 Oct 2026

Waitakere United tear Hawke's Bay United apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 5‑1 against Hawke's Bay United, and it could have been more.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

A brace, and Monty Wood takes the afternoon — 9.53

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Monty Wood provided it, and the 9.53 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

No sign of nerves from Sam Nelson at 20 — 9.25

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Sam Nelson did not need any: 9.25, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Sam Nelson takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Player ratings26 Oct 2026

Nobody could get near Matthew Marshall

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Pentjie Zulu 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.

Match24 Oct 2026

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Waitakere United and Hawke's Bay United in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad26 Oct 2026

Ubong Williams 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 terraces26 Oct 2026

Waitakere United supporters have found a favourite in Clayton Fenton

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Clayton Fenton has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

11 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad12 Oct 2026

Real improvement from Cameron Stamatelopoulos at Waitakere United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Cameron Stamatelopoulos is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Pentjie Zulu 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.

Squad12 Oct 2026

Joe Sutton has improved at 25, 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.

In brief