The Rotherham United Courier
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Ar'jany Martha
Successful dribbles: 32. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Rotherham United
4 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Daniel Gore in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rotherham United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Kane Richardson at Rotherham United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kane Richardson is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Match3 Oct 2026
3 matches without a goal for Rotherham United
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
Rotherham United supporters have found a favourite in Lenny Agbaire
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Lenny Agbaire has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Luis Pérez signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luis Pérez commits to Rotherham United for another 2 years.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Rotherham United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matías Fesztein 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 ratings5 Oct 2026
Lenny Agbaire takes the honours
Marked 7.34 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Rotherham United had the best player on the pitch.
In brief
- The dugout A promise honoured for Joe Rafferty
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Lenny Agbaire
- The dugout John Simmons: “We have to be better”