The Southern United Herald
Squad10 Aug 2026
A fracture rules Alex De Vries out for 36 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Southern United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market10 Aug 2026
Tommy De Vries hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Southern United can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Marco Nelson stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Marco Nelson and Southern United agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
Monty Van Hattum attracts admirers
The name of Monty Van Hattum has come up in conversations Southern United were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Southern United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jai Cacace 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Clayton Barbarouses 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 Southern United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Loan watch Oliver Just has seen enough of Melbourne City
- Market Chris Van Hattum told to find a new club
- Market Nobody at Southern United has picked up the phone to Owen Boxall