Author: DarelNix

Just as Manchester United are called the Red Devils, Norwich City are called the Canaries and Waikato United used to be called The Bulls, we want WaiBOP United to have our own visual and emotional identity. But what should it be? We’d like you to help us build it. Name Your Team Now! Name Your …

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WaiBOP United is pleased to announce three further player signings ahead of the 2013/14 ASB Premiership season. These players are: Maksim Manko (Bay Olympic), pictured centre. Milos Nikolic (Central United), pictured right (photo: Enzo Giordani). Johnny Konings (Hamilton Wanderers), pictured left. This brings WaiBOP United’s confirmed playing squad to ten. WaiBOP United Head Coach, Peter …

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To fill our days until the re-start of the 2015/16 ASB Premiership we’re revisiting some of the best material from this season’s issues of The Range, our match day magazine. The National League, Part 2: 1993 to 2003 – Bruce Holloway A national league has been in existence in New Zealand for 45 years, and ahead of a …

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Our burst along the impressive Bay of Plenty coastline brings us to our next stop – Mt Maunganui‘s main beach, which is presided over by ‘The Mount’. There aren’t too many finer places in New Zealand to hang out during the summer than this stretch of white sand and azure water. And the view from …

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To fill our days until the re-start of the 2015/16 ASB Premiership we’re revisiting some of the best material from this season’s issues of The Range, our match day magazine. The National League, Part 3: 2004 to now – Bruce Holloway Ahead of planned major national league revamp for next summer, in the last of three articles Bruce Holloway …

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To fill our days until the re-start of the 2015/16 ASB Premiership we’re revisiting some of the best material from this season’s issues of The Range, our match day magazine. A Game By The Sea – Football Dad Part 1 A cold, wet and slimy piece of tomato slapped into the back of Football Dad’s neck. “Yuck!” …

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It’s crunch time for Loaded WaiBOP United. After a Christmas break in which the team relaxed, then recharged, then got down to some serious work, we now face a fixture list that sees us play the three teams currently below us on the ASB Premiership table in our next three matches. Two of those are at …

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It’s crunch time for Loaded WaiBOP United. We begin the post-Christmas period of the 2015/16 ASB Premiership with three matches against teams currently sitting below us in the standings. Two of those are at home, but we begin with a trip to Wellington to play the Phoenix. Head coach, Peter Smith, has been active during …

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Tickets Adult $10, Student & Pensioners $5, Children free. Entry Gate 4, FMG Stadium Waikato. Loaded WaiBOP United is back at FMG Stadium Waikato on Thursday evening hunting our first home win of the 2015/16 ASB Premiership season. Our visitors, last-placed Southern United, might seem like the ideal opponents for us to snap this run, but given …

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WaiBOP coach Simon Mead says his team goes into its final home game of the ASB Women’s League with a “business as usual” approach and eager to finish in the top half of the table. WaiBOP hosts a New Zealand Under 17 selection at St Peter’s School, Cambridge, this Sunday (1pm kick off) in a …

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