The Waitakere United Sentinel
Squad24 Aug 2026
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 terraces24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
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 The request is on a desk at Waitakere United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
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
- Squad Words at Waitakere United training over how hard people work
- Squad This league is too small for Simon Hamilton
- Market Stefan McCowatt is free to find somewhere else