The Grodig Courier
Match30 Sep 2028
No end in sight to Grodig's wait for a win
36 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Grodig has to find a result from somewhere.
Match2 Oct 2028
Every point is an argument now for Grodig
Position 10 and 3 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market2 Oct 2028
Floriano Vanzo asks to leave Grodig
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market2 Oct 2028
Brodi Hughes is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Grodig is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Alexandre Guedes 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 Grodig this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match30 Sep 2028
Grodig come up short against Rapid Wien
Rapid Wien left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Words at Grodig training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicola Bellomo 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.
Squad2 Oct 2028
The manager makes an example of Arsenio Valpoort
“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.
Squad2 Oct 2028
Pasquale Pane lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
In brief
- Player ratings Ismaël Sylla runs at them all day
- The terraces Everybody has an opinion about Lukas Willen
- Player ratings The one thing Alexandre Guedes could not do