Deklan Smith

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485 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

12 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad12 Nov 2035

Matt McCowatt breaks a bone — 52 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 52 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market12 Nov 2035

Bill Cacace is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hawke's Bay United is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad12 Nov 2035

Oliver Sutton 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.

In brief

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476 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

10 Sep 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market10 Sep 2035

Only the photograph left for Sam Cacace

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Sam Cacace will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hawke's Bay United the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad10 Sep 2035

Oliver Sutton 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.

Squad10 Sep 2035

Tempers go at Hawke's Bay United

Deklan Smith 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.

Squad10 Sep 2035

Hawke's Bay United lose James Colvey

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

Squad10 Sep 2035

When it matters, Tim Waine plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market10 Sep 2035

The window shut and Sam Payne is still in the building

Hawke's Bay United spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.

In brief

469 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

23 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market23 Jul 2035

Hawke's Bay United turn down Waitakere United for Marco De Vries

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market23 Jul 2035

The Monty Barbarouses conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Waitakere United will make the call about Monty Barbarouses this week. Hawke's Bay United have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad23 Jul 2035

Words at Hawke's Bay United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco De Vries 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.

Squad23 Jul 2035

Deklan Smith in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hawke's Bay United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad23 Jul 2035

Clayton Garbett has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Hawke's Bay United will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Squad23 Jul 2035

No hiding place for Bill Cacace

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bill Cacace, and the manager let it.

In brief

427 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

2 Oct 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad2 Oct 2034

Bill Reid damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market2 Oct 2034

Ryan Barbarouses has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hawke's Bay United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad2 Oct 2034

Bill Reid signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bill Reid commits to Hawke's Bay United for another 2 years.

In brief

416 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

17 Jul 2034
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 Jul 2034

Bill Reid damages knee ligaments — 102 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 102 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market17 Jul 2034

Hawke's Bay United say no — this time

The offer from Waitakere United for Chris Sutton was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Market17 Jul 2034

Clayton Stamatelopoulos has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Hawke's Bay United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad17 Jul 2034

Clayton Garbett in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hawke's Bay United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market17 Jul 2034

Noah Tuiloma attracts admirers

The name of Noah Tuiloma has come up in conversations Hawke's Bay United were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad17 Jul 2034

Deklan Smith signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Deklan Smith commits to Hawke's Bay United for another 2 years.

In brief

399 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

20 Mar 2034
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad20 Mar 2034

Stefan Rufer says Hawke's Bay United went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad20 Mar 2034

Words at Hawke's Bay United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marco De Vries 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.

Squad20 Mar 2034

Deklan Smith in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hawke's Bay United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief