The Waitakere United Sentinel
Squad4 Jan 2027
Bill Cacace 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
Marco De Vries 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.
Loan watch4 Jan 2027
Jake Barbarouses wants to come home
“I did not go to Auckland City to sit and watch. I want to come back to Waitakere United and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 21 matches say the rest.
Match2 Jan 2027
Waitakere United come up short against Auckland City
Auckland City left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Waitakere United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joe Payne 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Auckland City watching Ryan Lockyer
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Waitakere United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
In brief
- Squad A month that belonged to Joe Barbarouses
- Market Stefan Fenton is free to find somewhere else
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Chris Reid
- Player ratings Oliver Reid spends the afternoon fouling