The Southern United Herald
Match6 Sep 2027
Southern United sink to position 6
10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Southern United spell it out for Owen Cacace
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Owen Cacace has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Emergency meeting at Southern United
The whole football department in one room on a weekday morning. Nothing was announced afterwards, which is what a board announces when it has run out of patience.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Tommy Reid out for 32 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Southern United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market6 Sep 2027
Tommy Reid 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.
Boardroom6 Sep 2027
Window shuts: 2 in, 10 out at Southern United
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 2 arrived, 10 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets6 Sep 2027
Adam Mitchell is a medical away from Southern United
The deal with Auckland City is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at Southern United
Jai Boxall and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Sam Singh stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sam Singh and Southern United agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Southern United
- Market Ning Fangze already looking beyond Southern United
- The dugout Jorge Lambea without the man who signed him