The Southern United Herald
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yankho Singo gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Yankho Singo has just signed for Southern United, and for once the answer mattered.
Market10 Aug 2026
Liberato Barbarouses 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Southern United say no — this time
The offer from Hawke's Bay United for Damien Cummings was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Yankho Singo signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yankho Singo and Southern United agree another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Southern United training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. James Lewis 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.
In brief
- Market No place for Ben Smith in the plan
- Market Southern United shop where it costs nothing