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Edition
The WaiBOP United Gazette
30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tim Nelson pulls a muscle — 17 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 17 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Sam Boxall at WaiBOP United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sam Boxall is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at WaiBOP United
Ryan Nelson 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.
In brief
- Squad A late step up for Francis Bell
- Market Waitakere United watching Alex Boxall
- Market The shop window has Francis Cacace in it
- Market Noah Lockyer leaves for nothing