Marked for Christopher Wernitznig
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kenny Quetant is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at SV Ried
Andreas Leitner and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Lukas Gugganig’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and SV Ried needing him to play as if none of it matters.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at SV Ried. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at SV Ried, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad12 Oct 2026
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at SV Ried has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market28 Sep 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at SV Ried, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for SV Ried
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Andreas Leitner 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
No clean sheets in sight for SV Ried
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Match26 Sep 2026
SV Ried come up short against LASK
LASK left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at SV Ried
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christopher Wernitznig was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
A promise honoured at SV Ried
Something was said to Nikki Havenaar and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.
Squad28 Sep 2026
SV Ried are still strangers to each other
13 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.