The Stripfing Post
Match26 Dec 2026
No mercy from Stripfing
Kapfenberg will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Stripfing were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Squad28 Dec 2026
A one-man rearguard from Jonas Krumrey
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Real improvement from Kevin Weimann at Stripfing
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kevin Weimann is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Words at Stripfing training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Filip Rózga 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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
A masterclass from Meritan Shabani
Marked 8.06 — 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.
Player ratings28 Dec 2026
A masterclass from Marcel Sabitzer
Marked 8.03 — 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.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Stripfing
Noah Andreas 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 dugout28 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Manuel Haas
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout28 Dec 2026
Heinz Lindner: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑0, already talking about the next one.
In brief
- Player ratings Pascal Klemens was immovable
- Player ratings Philipp Sabitzer was unplayable
- The dugout Felix Irorere does not fit this one