Stefan Lewis

Striker - Waitakere United
9 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Stefan Lewis

4 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Alex Colvey damages knee ligaments — 22 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 22 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

The terraces

Waitakere United sell a favourite for $4.0K

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Callum Singh was one of the reasons people came, and $4.0K does not replace that by itself.

Market

Team Wellington come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Waitakere United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Winston Nelson puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Waitakere United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Stefan Lewis 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.

Market

Business is business: Callum Singh goes

WaiBOP United paid $4.0K and Waitakere United took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Alex Colvey

30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Waitakere United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Waitakere United turn down WaiBOP United for Liberato Kirwan

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Stefan Lewis 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.

Market

WaiBOP United join the queue for Oliver Nelson

Add another name to the list: WaiBOP United have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Oliver Nelson. The answer from Waitakere United has not changed — yet.

Squad

Words at Waitakere United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Monty McCowatt 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Monty McCowatt

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Monty McCowatt, and the manager let it.

In brief

2 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Nelson Ralenkoane stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Nelson Ralenkoane and Waitakere United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Stefan Lewis 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.

Squad

Nelson Ralenkoane 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

1 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Newcastle Jets watching Oliver Singh

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.

Squad

Nelson Ralenkoane signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Nelson Ralenkoane commits to Waitakere United for another 3 years.

Squad

Stefan Lewis 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.

In brief