Tim Smith

Defensive Midfielder - Hawke's Bay United
20 Aug 2028
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107 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces14 Aug 2028

The mood at Hawke's Bay United has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Boardroom14 Aug 2028

Pressure builds in the Hawke's Bay United boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market14 Aug 2028

Only the photograph left for Noah Kirwan

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Noah Kirwan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hawke's Bay United the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Real improvement from Noah Kirwan at Hawke's Bay United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Noah Kirwan is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Tempers go at Hawke's Bay United

Matt Boxall 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.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Ben Cacace signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ben Cacace commits to Hawke's Bay United for another 2 years.

In brief

Back issues
44 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match31 May 2027

Hawke's Bay United are in real trouble now

Position 7, 4 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad31 May 2027

A fracture rules Tommy Wood out for 103 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hawke's Bay United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad31 May 2027

Tim Smith is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 17 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

33 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

15 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad15 Mar 2027

Bill Singh 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 Hawke's Bay United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad15 Mar 2027

Words at Hawke's Bay United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. James Lockyer 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.

Squad15 Mar 2027

Liberato Payne knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Liberato Payne trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

17 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match18 Nov 2026

Hawke's Bay United bow out of the cup

Canterbury United go through and Hawke's Bay United go home, 2‑3 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings23 Nov 2026

A debut Michael Garbett will not forget — 7.15

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.15 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Match21 Nov 2026

The wait goes on for Hawke's Bay United

6 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.

Squad23 Nov 2026

A one-man rearguard from Callum Tuiloma

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Hawke's Bay United

Zaharaddeen Bello 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.

Match21 Nov 2026

Hawke's Bay United leaking at the back

4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Match21 Nov 2026

A bad afternoon for Hawke's Bay United against Team Wellington

0‑2 to Team Wellington, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad23 Nov 2026

The manager makes an example of Joe Van Hattum

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Bill Lockyer out for 14 days

The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Bill Lockyer, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief