Successful dribbles: 28. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Shandong Taishan is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Wei Shihao 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Frank Acheampong was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
A performance of 8.19 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Cao Zheng, on a 1‑0 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Fábio Abreu is on it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Albion Ademi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Huang Zhengyu 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.
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.24, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
The dugout12 Jul 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Cao Zheng kept it short after the 4‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
A brace, and Pedro Delgado takes the afternoon — 8.25
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Pedro Delgado provided it, and the 8.25 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Albion Ademi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 4 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Cao Zheng kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Cryzan is on it.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Shandong Taishan can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Albion Ademi 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 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.
Minute 98, against Shanghai Shenhua, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Shandong Taishan have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mawlan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Shandong Taishan the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 May 2027
Albion Ademi 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.
Huang Zhengyu 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.
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Cao Zheng after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Nobody at Shandong Taishan will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
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.
Marked 8.58 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Cryzan. 1‑0 against Meizhou Hakka, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Henan FC in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
1 for Guilherme Madruga, marked 7.74, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Albion Ademi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Guilherme Madruga. 2‑1 against Chengdu Rongcheng, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Cryzan was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.41. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Sun Qihang 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 dugout10 May 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Cao Zheng kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Wang Dalei is on it.
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings19 Apr 2027
A brace, and Albion Ademi takes the afternoon — 8.09
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Albion Ademi provided it, and the 8.09 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.94 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Shandong Taishan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Albion Ademi 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.
Nobody at Shandong Taishan will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Shandong Taishan can pretend not to have heard.
Cryzan 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.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Albion Ademi 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.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Tianjin Jinmen Tiger defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Shandong Taishan have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Shandong Taishan they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 33 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Shandong Taishan is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Albion Ademi 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.
Nobody at Shandong Taishan will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Changchun Yatai next, and one man in the Shandong Taishan dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Shandong Taishan. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Two goals and a mark of 9.25 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Shandong Taishan and Zhejiang FC in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Albion Ademi 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.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Shandong Taishan are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Albion Ademi 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.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Frank Acheampong was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shandong Taishan know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
70 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Shandong Taishan lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
23 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.
The offer from Tianjin Jinmen Tiger for Gao Zhunyi was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
“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 Shandong Taishan, and it is not being withdrawn.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Shandong Taishan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Albion Ademi signs something — a contract at Shandong Taishan or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Shandong Taishan, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
SquadChen Zeshi is the talk of the training ground
The dugoutThe manager plants his flag on Chen Zeshi
The words a physio says slowly. 78 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Shandong Taishan people have started saying his name in the past tense.
The offer from Wuhan Three Towns for Zhao Jianfei was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Every long career reaches the week the last one is thought about. He would like it to be where he started, and Shandong Taishan know now that the thought has arrived.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Albion Ademi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
101 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Shandong Taishan lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Wuhan Three Towns waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Shandong Taishan is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
“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 Shandong Taishan, and it is not being withdrawn.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Shandong Taishan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Albion Ademi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Shandong Taishan asked and Changchun Yatai said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Nobody at Shandong Taishan will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
109 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Shandong Taishan lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
“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 Shandong Taishan, and it is not being withdrawn.
Albion Ademi 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.
Shandong Taishan asked and Shanghai Port said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Shandong Taishan know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
The words a physio says slowly. 126 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Albion Ademi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Sun Qihang has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Albion Ademi is on it.
The words a physio says slowly. 135 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
First, on 23 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Albion Ademi 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.
The words a physio says slowly. 26 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albion Ademi 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.
Nobody at Shandong Taishan will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
42 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Shandong Taishan lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Shandong Taishan are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guilherme Madruga 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
The dugoutCryzan has become a man the manager trusts
60 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Shandong Taishan lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
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.
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Shandong Taishan has been clear about where Zeca stands, which is more than many ever get.
This is the season the town will measure the next twenty against. The trophy travels home with the squad, and the route through the streets was agreed days ago.
Maidana 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.
Match4 Nov 2026
Another one collected away from home
3 on the bounce on the road for Shandong Taishan. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Marked 8.28 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
With 5 players away on international duty the sessions are small and the manager can actually hear himself. It is the one break in the season, and it never quite feels like one.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albion Ademi 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.
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Chen Pu is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Cryzan is on it.
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Frank Acheampong signs something — a contract at Shandong Taishan or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Guilherme Madruga has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
Yunnan Yukun will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Shandong Taishan were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
A brace, and Fábio Abreu takes the afternoon — 8.80
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Fábio Abreu provided it, and the 8.80 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Shandong Taishan can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Albion Ademi 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.
A performance of 8.18 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Cao Zheng, on a 4‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
The first defeat in 11 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Dalian Yingbo; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Shandong Taishan can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Frank Acheampong was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Everybody at Shandong Taishan saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 37 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Maidana 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.
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Huang Zhengyu and Shandong Taishan agree another 4 years.
11 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Pedro Delgado is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Wang Dalei: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
19 combined actions and 7.04. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Shandong Taishan can pretend not to have heard.
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Shandong Taishan will try again when the window opens; Chengdu Rongcheng may not be selling by then.
The deal that would have taken Xemxidin to Wuhan Three Towns has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Shandong Taishan with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Albion Ademi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Wang Dalei: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Successful dribbles: 33. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
7.90, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
There comes a point where a club either backs its own ambition or admits it does not have any. Shandong Taishan have paid $550.0K for Maidana, which is the loudest way there is of saying which one it chose.
He will play here until the summer and then walk out of the door for free, having already signed elsewhere. Supporters will manage the first part of that sentence; it is the second they will struggle with.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Shandong Taishan this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Shandong Taishan asked and Henan FC said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
In brief
The dugoutThe manager makes an example of Wang Dalei
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Albion Ademi is living that version at Shandong Taishan, and it tends to show in the first month.
$550.0K on the table at Henan FC. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Cryzan 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.
$140.0K on the table at Chengdu Rongcheng. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Albion Ademi 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.
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Wang Yifan has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Li Zheng is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
350 appearances across 27 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Cryzan provided it, and the 8.75 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Frank Acheampong has just signed for Shandong Taishan, and for once the answer mattered.
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Shandong Taishan can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
The shirt still fits. Wei Shihao is back at Shandong Taishan, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Shandong Taishan asked and Atlético Tucumán said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.