The Rudes Chronicle
Squad28 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Frane Barbić
36 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Rudes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A brace, and Stefan Vukić takes the afternoon — 8.68
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Stefan Vukić provided it, and the 8.68 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Filip Taraba, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.63
A mark of 7.63 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Vedran Celjak 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 Rudes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Jurica Poldrugač runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The terraces28 Sep 2026
One of their own: Adiele Eriugo
He is 20 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Match26 Sep 2026
Rudes see off Segesta
Three points for Rudes, 2‑0 the final word against Segesta in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Rudes count the cost of losing Noa Bilić
14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Rudes
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Saad El Haddad was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Jurica Poldrugač
- Match Halfway: Rudes sit in position 2
- The dugout Luka Benko: “That is the standard”