Erick Lorch

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92 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

1 May 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market1 May 2028

Williams Zwane 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 Platinum Stars can pretend not to have heard.

Squad1 May 2028

Erick Lorch keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Platinum Stars may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad1 May 2028

Tempers go at Platinum Stars

Bongani Modiba 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.

Squad1 May 2028

Keagan Mahlangu 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.

Squad1 May 2028

Denis Parkinson signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Denis Parkinson commits to Platinum Stars for another 4 years.

Loan watch1 May 2028

Thamsanqa Mokotjo wants to come home

“I did not go to Tusker to sit and watch. I want to come back to Platinum Stars and fight for my place.” 4 appearances in 16 matches say the rest.

In brief

Back issues
56 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

23 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match21 Aug 2027

Cruel end for Chippa United as Platinum Stars pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Platinum Stars scored in the 94th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Market23 Aug 2027

Ramahlwe Dolly attracts admirers

The name of Ramahlwe Dolly has come up in conversations Platinum Stars were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Ntokozo Madondo is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.

Match21 Aug 2027

Platinum Stars find a way past Chippa United

Chippa United made Platinum Stars work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings23 Aug 2027

Matías Esquivel runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Words at Platinum Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Keagan Mahlangu 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.

Player ratings23 Aug 2027

Sifiso Mphela in the eights

A performance of 8.01 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Platinum Stars

Ntokozo Madondo 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.

Squad23 Aug 2027

Erick Lorch signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Erick Lorch commits to Platinum Stars for another 3 years.

In brief

52 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market26 Jul 2027

Minnesota United FC come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Platinum Stars did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Platinum Stars count the cost of losing Ramahlwe Zwane

19 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Words at Platinum Stars training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Keagan Mahlangu 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.

In brief

14 Edition

The Platinum Stars Courier

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad2 Nov 2026

Ramahlwe Mokoena damages knee ligaments — 66 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 66 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match31 Oct 2026

Whatever happens, Platinum Stars do not lose

7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Ramahlwe Jali 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.

Match31 Oct 2026

Monnapule Saleng the difference as Platinum Stars beat Black Aces

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Monnapule Saleng. 1‑0 against Black Aces, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

A masterclass from Monnapule Saleng

Marked 8.18 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Keagan Mahlangu 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