Ryan Bell

Defensive Midfielder - Waitakere United U18
21 Sep 2029
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157 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

30 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market30 Jul 2029

Owen Smith agrees terms with Hawke's Bay United

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Waitakere United people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Squad30 Jul 2029

Tempers go at Waitakere United

Cameron Nelson 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.

The dugout30 Jul 2029

No hiding place for Tommy Smith

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Tommy Smith, and the manager let it.

Squad30 Jul 2029

Tommy Smith: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Waitakere United will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

Market30 Jul 2029

The Kosta Just story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kosta Just signs something — a contract at Waitakere United or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout30 Jul 2029

A door opens for Tim Wood

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

In brief

Back issues
154 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match9 Jul 2029

Waitakere United sink to position 6

9 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad9 Jul 2029

15 days out for Ryan Bell after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Waitakere United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market9 Jul 2029

Uzayr Buksh puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Waitakere United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Real improvement from Tommy Boxall at Waitakere United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tommy Boxall is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Words exchanged at Waitakere United

Matt Fenton and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad9 Jul 2029

Tim Wood signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tim Wood commits to Waitakere United for another 3 years.

In brief

153 Edition

The Waitakere United Sentinel

2 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom2 Jul 2029

Eduardo Pereira has until the next board meeting

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

Squad2 Jul 2029

23 days out for Ryan Bell after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Waitakere United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market2 Jul 2029

Tim Cacace 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.

Squad2 Jul 2029

The step up is real for Winston Tuiloma

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad2 Jul 2029

A falling-out at Waitakere United

Jeremy Foo and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market2 Jul 2029

Team Wellington join the queue for Owen Smith

Add another name to the list: Team Wellington have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Owen Smith. The answer from Waitakere United has not changed — yet.

Squad2 Jul 2029

Tim Cacace 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.

Boardroom2 Jul 2029

Waitakere United sign 6 boys into the academy

None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.

The dugout2 Jul 2029

Deklan Bell without the man who signed him

Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Deklan Bell was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.

In brief