The WaiBOP United Gazette
Market10 Aug 2026
Matt Barbarouses hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what WaiBOP United can pretend not to have heard.
Market10 Aug 2026
WaiBOP United say no — this time
The offer from Waitakere United for Clayton Lockyer was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ryan Lockyer signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ryan Lockyer commits to WaiBOP United for another 2 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Callum Sutton 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Clayton Boxall 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Callum Sutton knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at WaiBOP United, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- Market No place for Joe Rufer in the plan
- Market Marco Cacace goes out on loan to play