The Southern United Herald
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Southern United
Oliver Kirwan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match31 Oct 2026
Oliver Kirwan sends Southern United past Canterbury United
It finished 2‑0, and it was Oliver Kirwan’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Southern United.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Oliver Kirwan in the eights
A performance of 8.19 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Noah Kirwan falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Dane Singh: “That is the standard”
“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.
Looking ahead2 Nov 2026
Southern United take on the side everybody is chasing
Team Wellington arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Joe Just 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Oliver Kirwan 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Nobody could get near Joe Just
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- Player ratings Nothing got past Alex Bell
- The dugout Joe Boxall left out for tactical reasons at Southern United
- Player ratings The referee tires of Tim Sutton