Frane Runjić

Right Back - Lucko
14 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Frane Runjić

13 Edition

The Lucko Gazette

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The wait goes on for Lucko

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.

Match

The goals have deserted Lucko

4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Lucko can tell you which week it ends in.

Squad

A row about effort at Lucko

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sven Šunta was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Sven Šunta runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Lucko

Frane Runjić 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Lucko

13 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Player ratings

Krešimir Radoš shuts the door

Defensive actions: 15, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

The dugout

Milan Erceg on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Milan Erceg after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

When it matters, Lovro Stanić plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

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The Lucko Gazette

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Abdoul Salla Camara, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.98

A mark of 7.98 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Lucko

Krešimir Radoš 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.

Player ratings

Sven Šunta runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Abdoul Salla Camara

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Lucko get the job done against Imotski

A 1‑0 win over Imotski, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Lovro Stanić 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.

Match

Lucko at the halfway mark

Half the programme played, position 8, 6 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Lucko

12 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad

Johnny Emerson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Johnny Emerson commits to Lucko for another 3 years.

In brief

  • The dugout Milan Erceg: “That is the standard”
  • The dugout No hiding place for Frane Runjić
  • Looking ahead Lucko take on the side everybody is chasing