The US Orleans Post
Match1 Nov 2031
Nobody wants to play US Orleans right now
13 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad3 Nov 2031
A knee injury of the worst kind for Onyia Henry
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. US Orleans lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings3 Nov 2031
A brace, and Noam Obougou Jacquet takes the afternoon — 8.43
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Noam Obougou Jacquet provided it, and the 8.43 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match1 Nov 2031
US Orleans are at home on the road
7 straight away victories. Sides that win away are usually sides that can defend and can counter, and the table has begun to reflect what those journeys have earned.
The dugout3 Nov 2031
Nessim Rahmani: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” US Orleans have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad3 Nov 2031
A falling-out at US Orleans
Maxime Bernauer and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Nov 2031
A row about effort at US Orleans
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Florent Sanchez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match1 Nov 2031
Noam Obougou Jacquet sends US Orleans past US Boulogne
It finished 2‑0, and it was Noam Obougou Jacquet’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to US Orleans.
Squad3 Nov 2031
Ronaldo Barrett reaches 100 appearances
100 games in the shirt. Nobody sets out to build a record like that; it happens to a certain kind of player at a certain kind of club, and this town knows what it has.
In brief
- The dugout Interim Coach: “That is the standard”
- Market US Orleans and Onyia Henry are talking past each other
- The dugout US Orleans pick somebody else ahead of Valter Monteiro