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Edition
The WaiBOP United Gazette
7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Sep 2026
Matt Barbarouses asks to leave WaiBOP United
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market7 Sep 2026
Waitakere United come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and WaiBOP United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Clayton Lockyer is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at WaiBOP United
- Squad Words at WaiBOP United training over how hard people work
- Squad Joe Sutton knocks on the manager’s door