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Edition
The Southern United Herald
10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bill McCowatt stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Bill McCowatt and Southern United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Bill McCowatt 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 Southern United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kosta Waine 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.
In brief
- Market Auckland City watching Bill Tuiloma
- Market Cameron Murray is free to find somewhere else
- Squad Bill McCowatt knocks on the manager’s door