The WaiBOP United Gazette
Squad18 Oct 2027
Liberato Waine takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Market18 Oct 2027
As if he never left: Alex Rufer returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Alex Rufer is a WaiBOP United player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market18 Oct 2027
Clayton Nelson is a WaiBOP United player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market18 Oct 2027
As if he never left: Sam Rufer returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Sam Rufer is a WaiBOP United player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market18 Oct 2027
As if he never left: Michael Van Hattum returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Michael Van Hattum is a WaiBOP United player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Murod Ermatov 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.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Liberato Waine in the eights
A performance of 9.52 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match16 Oct 2027
Liberato Waine sends WaiBOP United past Hawke's Bay United
It finished 3‑1, and it was Liberato Waine’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to WaiBOP United.
Squad18 Oct 2027
WaiBOP United count the cost of losing Kosta Lockyer
100 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Squad Home is on Eky Taufik Febriyanto's mind
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Kosta Colvey
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Liberato Waine