The Stripfing Post
Squad4 Sep 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Nico Maier
44 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Stripfing lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match30 Aug 2028
Stripfing through in the cup
A 3‑2 win over Austria Salzburg, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
What a way to start for Peter Schuster — 7.39
1 on the scoresheet on his first appearance and a mark of 7.39 beside it. Most debuts are got through; this one was enjoyed, by him and by everybody watching it.
Market4 Sep 2028
Raphael Grillitsch 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 Stripfing can pretend not to have heard.
Match30 Aug 2028
Stripfing win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Austria Salzburg will replay every second of the added time for a week.
The dugout4 Sep 2028
Matías López Vélez says Stripfing went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Deadline passes with 20 signed and 19 gone
That is the business done at Stripfing until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Match2 Sep 2028
8 unbeaten for Stripfing
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation Stripfing did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Nino Zonneveld runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Match Stripfing make home a hard place to visit
- Boardroom Stripfing go back to the board over Yanis Eisschill
- Transfer targets Stripfing make their move for Yanis Eisschill