Sam Rufer

Right Midfielder - Hawke's Bay United
12 Sep 2030
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180 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

7 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match5 Jan 2030

14 matches without a win for Hawke's Bay United

The run now stands at 14, and the questions being asked around Hawke's Bay United are no longer polite ones.

Boardroom7 Jan 2030

Oliver Tuiloma has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Hawke's Bay United can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom7 Jan 2030

Pressure builds in the Hawke's Bay United boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad7 Jan 2030

A one-man rearguard from Joe Nelson

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad7 Jan 2030

Oliver Reid 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.

Player ratings7 Jan 2030

One of those days for Tommy Nelson

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.39, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Market7 Jan 2030

Auckland City are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Hawke's Bay United will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Match5 Jan 2030

Tommy Nelson rescues a point for Hawke's Bay United

It needed Tommy Nelson to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Southern United, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad7 Jan 2030

Winston Stamatelopoulos gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

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161 Edition

The Hawke's Bay United Courier

27 Aug 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match27 Aug 2029

Hawke's Bay United are in real trouble now

Position 5, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad27 Aug 2029

Tempers go at Hawke's Bay United

Oliver 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.

Market27 Aug 2029

Jai Sutton attracts admirers

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

Market27 Aug 2029

The Winston Kirwan conversation is coming

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

Market27 Aug 2029

The Connor McGrath question follows Hawke's Bay United around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Connor McGrath’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad27 Aug 2029

Tim De Vries keeps his manager's vote

The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Tim De Vries plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.

In brief