Cameron Just

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Process

Marked for Cameron Just

90 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Cameron Just 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 The request is on a desk at WaiBOP United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at WaiBOP United

Liberato Colvey and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Words at WaiBOP United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ryan McCowatt 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.

Squad

WaiBOP United lose Liberato Reid

38 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout

Marco Lewis asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout

Manraj Singh has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Manraj Singh has written the date down.

In brief

Back issues
70 Edition

The WaiBOP United Gazette

29 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Ryan Tuiloma out for 94 days

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

Squad

Words exchanged at WaiBOP United

Sam Stamatelopoulos and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at WaiBOP United

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ryan McCowatt was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Team Wellington take the points off WaiBOP United

Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

No place for Cameron Just in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Cameron Just has his answer from WaiBOP United; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Squad

Michael Lockyer stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Michael Lockyer and WaiBOP United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout

James Lockyer faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” James Lockyer after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Player ratings

Marco Lewis beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 14. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Looking ahead

WaiBOP United take on the side everybody is chasing

Hawke's Bay United arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief