The Southern United Herald
Market1 Feb 2027
Team Wellington 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.
Boardroom1 Feb 2027
Window shuts: 4 in, 1 out at Southern United
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 4 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Teaveura Parker gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Teaveura Parker has just signed for Southern United, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets1 Feb 2027
Southern United rebuffed over Chris Reid
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Canterbury United have kept their man, and Southern United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Owen Van Hattum 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.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Joe Sutton out for 23 days
The medical room confirms 23 days on the sidelines for Joe Sutton, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Squad1 Feb 2027
Dane Barbarouses stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Dane Barbarouses and Southern United agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market1 Feb 2027
Southern United buy the years ahead of Teaveura Parker
He is 18, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
The dugout1 Feb 2027
Kosta Van Hattum has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Southern United will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Dane Barbarouses
- Market Southern United and Ilisoni Lolaivalu are talking past each other
- Loan watch 3 goals on loan for Callum Garbett