The WaiBOP United Gazette
Match28 Jun 2027
WaiBOP United sink to position 6
10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Market28 Jun 2027
Tim Singh hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what WaiBOP United can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Real improvement from Tim Singh at WaiBOP United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tim Singh is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Late improvement for Kosta Van Hattum
At 27 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 4 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words at WaiBOP United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Liberato Van Hattum 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Ben Nelson 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 WaiBOP United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- The dugout Matt Van Hattum knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Josh Damevski