The Waitakere United Sentinel
Market17 Aug 2026
Oliver Tuiloma asks to leave Waitakere 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
An offer of $20.0K for Joe Smith
Waitakere United have gone to Canterbury United with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Waitakere United rebuffed over Noah Boxall
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Canterbury United have kept their man, and Waitakere United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Jake Garbett 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Waitakere United
Joe Reid 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Waitakere United count the cost of losing Michael McCowatt
41 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Waitakere United lose Ryan Wood
39 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
No hiding place for Joe Reid
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joe Reid, and the manager let it.
Market17 Aug 2026
The shop window has Callum Lewis in it
Waitakere United have let the market know Callum Lewis can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
In brief
- The dugout Alex Barbarouses asks for a word with the manager
- The dugout The manager comes out for Ben Fenton
- Market Francis Cacace goes looking for football