Michael Just

Right Wingback - Southern United
29 Sep 2026
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Michael Just

4 Edition

The Southern United Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Monty Wood 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.

Market

Southern United turn down Waitakere United for Michael Just

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Words at Southern United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Deklan Singh 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.

Market

Waitakere United watching Ben Wood

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Southern United have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Tommy Waine gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Tempers go at Southern United

Liberato Tuiloma 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

Back issues
3 Edition

The Southern United Herald

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Southern United

Lungelo Kunene 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.

Squad

Deklan Singh 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.

In brief