Cameron Bell

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33 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market15 Mar 2027

Oliver Rufer has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Waitakere United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad15 Mar 2027

Ben Nelson 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.

Squad15 Mar 2027

5 new faces, and Waitakere United are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

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25 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad18 Jan 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jai Smith

19 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.

Match16 Jan 2027

Whatever happens, Waitakere United do not lose

8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Match16 Jan 2027

The wait goes on for Waitakere United

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Monty 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.

Squad18 Jan 2027

James Waine out for 47 days

The medical room confirms 47 days on the sidelines for James Waine, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad18 Jan 2027

Tim De Vries 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.

Loan watch18 Jan 2027

Cameron Nelson 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.” 0 appearances in 23 matches say the rest.

Player ratings18 Jan 2027

Winston Rufer gives it away

There was no pressure on him and nowhere he had to be. Waitakere United lost a goal to a decision that took half a second and will be discussed all week.

Match16 Jan 2027

Honours even between Waitakere United and Southern United

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief

23 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad4 Jan 2027

Owen Lewis damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.

Match4 Jan 2027

Waitakere United are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 20 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Alex Smith 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

A move Ekene Emmanuel would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ekene Emmanuel is living that version at Waitakere United, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match2 Jan 2027

Still nobody has beaten Waitakere United

The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad4 Jan 2027

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Owen 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.

Market4 Jan 2027

Waitakere United buy the years ahead of Ekene Emmanuel

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Player ratings4 Jan 2027

Jake Lockyer was immovable

14 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Match2 Jan 2027

No goals between Waitakere United and Auckland City

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Auckland City will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

7 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market14 Sep 2026

Winston Kirwan 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 Waitakere United can pretend not to have heard.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Real improvement from Clayton Bell at Waitakere United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Clayton Bell is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market14 Sep 2026

Waitakere United turn down Southern United for Cameron Bell

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

Squad14 Sep 2026

Monty 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words at Waitakere United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alex Smith 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Bill Cacace has improved at 28, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

In brief