The Stumbras Herald
Squad3 May 2027
145 days out for Ilias Melkas after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Stumbras will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match1 May 2027
The wait goes on for Stumbras
6 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.
Match1 May 2027
The goals have deserted Stumbras
6 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Stumbras can tell you which week it ends in.
Market3 May 2027
Andrius Satkus puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Stumbras, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad3 May 2027
Tempers go at Stumbras
Mouhamed Souare 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.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Stumbras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sven van Doorm 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.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Nobody on the pitch touched Karolis Novikovas
7.44, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Stumbras had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Arvydas Kazlauskas runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout3 May 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Modestas Kuklys was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Stumbras dressing room was either.
In brief
- The dugout Mantas Dapkus knocks on the manager's door
- Market Nobody at Stumbras has picked up the phone to Mantas Dapkus
- Match Point won or two lost for Stumbras?