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Marked for Tumi Bowes

96 Edition

The Orlando Pirates Chronicle

29 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market29 May 2028

Simphiwe Selepe wants more than Orlando Pirates are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad29 May 2028

Words exchanged at Orlando Pirates

Yanela Mbuthuma 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.

Squad29 May 2028

The step up is real for Tumi Bowes

At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad29 May 2028

Kamogelo Sebelebele 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 dugout29 May 2028

A promise honoured for Evidence Makgopa

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Orlando Pirates told Evidence Makgopa something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Squad29 May 2028

Orlando Pirates are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout29 May 2028

Nkosinathi Sibisi gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout29 May 2028

Sipho Chaine gets picked when it counts

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 Sipho Chaine is on it.

The dugout29 May 2028

Tshepang Moremi knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Orlando Pirates, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
47 Edition

The Orlando Pirates Chronicle

21 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match21 Jun 2027

Orlando Pirates refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 57 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market21 Jun 2027

Orlando Pirates say no — this time

The offer from Bidvest Wits for Siyabonga Dladla 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.

Market21 Jun 2027

Ethan Visagie is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Orlando Pirates is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Words exchanged at Orlando Pirates

Yanela Mbuthuma 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.

Squad21 Jun 2027

Words at Orlando Pirates training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thalente Mbatha 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.

Market21 Jun 2027

Ajax Cape Town join the queue for Samukelo Zikalala

Add another name to the list: Ajax Cape Town have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Samukelo Zikalala. The answer from Orlando Pirates has not changed — yet.

The dugout21 Jun 2027

Thabiso Sesane is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Market21 Jun 2027

Orlando Pirates put Sihle Nduli up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Sihle Nduli may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

The dugout21 Jun 2027

Ntando Ngcobo has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Orlando Pirates 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.

In brief

45 Edition

The Orlando Pirates Chronicle

7 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market7 Jun 2027

Widzew Łódź come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Orlando Pirates did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market7 Jun 2027

Ethan Visagie asks to leave Orlando Pirates

“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.

Market7 Jun 2027

Tshepang Moremi wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Orlando Pirates hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Market7 Jun 2027

Ntokozo Dlamini is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Orlando Pirates is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Yanela Mbuthuma 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 Orlando Pirates this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad7 Jun 2027

Words at Orlando Pirates training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Deon Hotto 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.

Transfer targets7 Jun 2027

Sparta Prague tell Orlando Pirates: Emmanuel Uchenna Aririerisim is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad7 Jun 2027

A step back for Cemran Dansin at Orlando Pirates

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

The dugout7 Jun 2027

Tumi Bowes gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

44 Edition

The Orlando Pirates Chronicle

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market31 May 2027

Only the photograph left for Mpho Padime

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mpho Padime will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Orlando Pirates the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad31 May 2027

Deon Hotto 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 Orlando Pirates this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 May 2027

Words at Orlando Pirates training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Thalente Mbatha 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.

Market31 May 2027

Cemran Dansin comes back from a loan that worked

29 appearances and 2 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.

Squad31 May 2027

Tumi Bowes signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tumi Bowes commits to Orlando Pirates for another 3 years.

The dugout31 May 2027

Masindi Nemtajela gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout31 May 2027

Lebone Seema is still paying for one afternoon at Orlando Pirates

Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.

Market31 May 2027

A year in the wrong dressing room for Khumoitsile Rathokolo

He went out to keep goal every week and came back with 1 games and 0 of them shut out. Somebody at Orlando Pirates argued for this move last summer; nobody is arguing for it now.

The dugout31 May 2027

Cemran Dansin knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Cemran Dansin trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief