The Southern United Herald
Squad7 Jun 2027
Tim Fenton damages knee ligaments — 39 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 39 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.
Squad7 Jun 2027
A fracture rules Dane Reid out for 104 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.
Market7 Jun 2027
Auckland City come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Southern United did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market7 Jun 2027
Cameron Lockyer 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 The request is on a desk at Southern United, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Real improvement from Sam Sutton at Southern United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sam Sutton is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Tempers go at Southern United
Mark Sullivan 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.
In brief
- Market Auckland City are about to pick up the phone
- Market 6 months and counting on Ryan Smith