The WaiBOP United Gazette
Squad12 Oct 2026
The knee: Cameron Nelson out for 46 days
46 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. WaiBOP United lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Darren McGrath
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Kosta Tuiloma 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 WaiBOP United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Squad Michael Just falls out with a teammate over standards
- Market WaiBOP United and Ben van Dorssen are talking past each other
- Market WaiBOP United pick up Ben van Dorssen for nothing
- Looking ahead Looking ahead: the trip to Hawke's Bay United