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The Southern United Herald
14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market14 Sep 2026
Liberato Tuiloma’s move to Team Wellington falls through
The deal that would have taken Liberato Tuiloma to Team Wellington has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Southern United with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Declan Simpson is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Deklan Singh has improved at 27, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
In brief
- Squad Words at Southern United training over how hard people work
- Squad Matt Rufer stays put
- Market The market said no: Monty Wood stays put