The Southern United Herald
Squad30 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Joe Lockyer
124 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Southern United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Southern United lose Callum Cacace
48 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Francis Garbett at Southern United
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Francis Garbett is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Owen Jones 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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Deklan Lewis moves on
Team Wellington pay $43.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market30 Aug 2027
The shop window has Joe Lockyer in it
Southern United have let the market know Joe Lockyer can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
In brief
- Market Michael Sutton leaves for nothing
- Market Jake Sutton leaves for nothing