The WaiBOP United Gazette
Squad16 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Tim Van Hattum
102 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. WaiBOP United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market16 Nov 2026
Winston Just has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around WaiBOP United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad16 Nov 2026
A falling-out at WaiBOP United
Ryan Just and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Deklan Sutton 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.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Ryan Just knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ryan Just trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Words at WaiBOP United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Rufer 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.
In brief
- Squad A WaiBOP United teenager takes the young player award
- Market The shop window has Ryan Just in it
- Looking ahead Home comforts ahead for WaiBOP United