The WaiBOP United Gazette
Boardroom25 Jun 2029
Pressure builds in the WaiBOP United boardroom
The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.
Market25 Jun 2029
Roraigh Browne 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.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2029
$17.0K settles it between the clubs for Bill Just
Hawke's Bay United have accepted the money. What WaiBOP United do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Transfer targets25 Jun 2029
Door shut on Bill Just
WaiBOP United asked and Hawke's Bay United said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad25 Jun 2029
A falling-out at WaiBOP United
Owen Barbarouses and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market25 Jun 2029
WaiBOP United promote Cameron Cacace from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cameron Cacace has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market25 Jun 2029
WaiBOP United promote Michael De Vries from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Michael De Vries has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market25 Jun 2029
One of our own: Tim Boxall joins the WaiBOP United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tim Boxall is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad25 Jun 2029
Hugo Casado signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Hugo Casado commits to WaiBOP United for another 2 years.
In brief
- Transfer targets WaiBOP United ask about Nathan Lobo
- The dugout Theo Robinson knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Cameron Lewis has had enough of the bench