The Southern United Herald
Squad9 Nov 2026
53 days out for Laisenia Tuinakauvadra after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Southern United will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Southern United
Monty McCowatt 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A row about effort at Southern United
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Noah Van Hattum was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Monty McCowatt was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.03. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Match7 Nov 2026
Southern United caught on 89 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then Team Wellington scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Match7 Nov 2026
Southern United share the spoils with Team Wellington
A 2‑2 draw with Team Wellington leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Liberato Waine 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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
Deklan Waine: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 2‑2 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Dane Reid scores his first for Southern United
The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.
In brief
- The dugout The form table has caught Marco Rufer
- Player ratings Liberato Waine could not find anything
- Player ratings Half an hour was enough for Dane Reid