The Waitakere United Sentinel
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Joe Colvey
37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Waitakere United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Waitakere United sell a favourite for $23.0K
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Dane Fenton was one of the reasons people came, and $23.0K does not replace that by itself.
Market24 Aug 2026
Clayton Just asks to leave Waitakere 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Waitakere United
Deklan Reid 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Dane Fenton moves on
Team Wellington pay $23.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Sanele Radebe 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
- Squad The manager makes an example of Deklan Reid
- Market Jake Boxall told to find a new club
- Market Tim Smith leaves on loan