The Southern United Herald
The terraces13 Sep 2027
Anger at Southern United spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Boardroom13 Sep 2027
The scrutiny sharpens at Southern United
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Southern United is running low.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Bill Kirwan damages knee ligaments — 26 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 26 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market13 Sep 2027
The Waitakere United deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Tim McCowatt reports back to Southern United with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Real improvement from James Lockyer at Southern United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. James Lockyer is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Tim McCowatt 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
- Squad A late step up for Samukelo Mlaba
- Market The clock runs on Winston Lockyer's contract
- Market Clayton De Vries leaves for nothing
- Market Noah Nelson leaves for nothing