The Waitakere United Sentinel
Market10 Aug 2026
Bill Fenton puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Waitakere United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Dane Tuiloma signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dane Tuiloma commits to Waitakere United for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Waitakere United
Deklan Stamatelopoulos and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Adam Campbell 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Liberato Sutton joins the Waitakere United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Liberato Sutton is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Waitakere United promote Deklan Tuiloma from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Deklan Tuiloma 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.
In brief
- Market Ben Tuiloma steps up from the Waitakere United academy
- The dugout Dane Tuiloma asks for a word with the manager
- Squad The training reports on Deklan Rufer are not good