The Adelaide United Chronicle
Squad14 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Craig Goodwin
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Adelaide United lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A fracture rules Anselmo out for 14 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Adelaide United will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from Jonny Yull at 21 — 8.06
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Jonny Yull did not need any: 8.06, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Adelaide United
Joshua Smits 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.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
Max Vartuli has seen enough of Newcastle Jets
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Adelaide United, and 0 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
Adelaide United supporters have found a favourite in Jonny Yull
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Jonny Yull has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match12 Dec 2026
Jonny Yull sends Adelaide United past Sydney FC
It finished 1‑0, and it was Jonny Yull’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Adelaide United.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Adelaide United count the cost of losing Mark Hill
39 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Nobody could get near Dylan Pierias
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
In brief
- The dugout Tate Burns has his say
- The dugout Jacob Brazete has become a man the manager trusts
- Looking ahead Craig Goodwin faces his old club