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Marked for Tommy Boxall

190 Edition

The Southern United Herald

18 Mar 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market18 Mar 2030

Tommy Boxall puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Southern United, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad18 Mar 2030

Jordan Vale in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Southern United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad18 Mar 2030

Southern United lose James Just

24 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout18 Mar 2030

Joe Bell gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Joe Bell is on it.

Market18 Mar 2030

The Marco Reid story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Marco Reid signs something — a contract at Southern United or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout18 Mar 2030

Amani Nailatikau knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Southern United, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market18 Mar 2030

Tim McCowatt leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Tim McCowatt leaves Southern United the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

Market18 Mar 2030

Dane Barbarouses leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Dane Barbarouses leaves Southern United the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

Boardroom18 Mar 2030

Southern United keep producing them

48 graduates from an academy now rated 9 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.

In brief

Back issues
183 Edition

The Southern United Herald

28 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets28 Jan 2030

The paperwork begins on Nathan Garrow

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Southern United have done the hard part with Auckland City, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad28 Jan 2030

Words exchanged at Southern United

James Kirwan 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.

Transfer targets28 Jan 2030

Southern United rebuffed over James Payne

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hawke's Bay United have kept their man, and Southern United go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad28 Jan 2030

A row about effort at Southern United

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jordan Vale was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout28 Jan 2030

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Squad28 Jan 2030

Tommy Boxall signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tommy Boxall commits to Southern United for another 3 years.

Transfer targets28 Jan 2030

A loan move for Bill Just is in the works

Southern United have made the call to Waitakere United. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Market28 Jan 2030

Southern United sign Kolinio Kaumaitotoya, one for the future

Kolinio Kaumaitotoya is 18, and Southern United have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

The dugout28 Jan 2030

Jordan Vale gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Jordan Vale is on it.

In brief

177 Edition

The Southern United Herald

17 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market17 Dec 2029

Monty Rufer 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.

Squad17 Dec 2029

James Kirwan in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Southern United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad17 Dec 2029

Words at Southern United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jordan Vale 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.

Looking ahead17 Dec 2029

The big one: Canterbury United come into view

Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. Southern United will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.

The dugout17 Dec 2029

Stefan Lockyer is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Market17 Dec 2029

Noah Payne told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Noah Payne has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Southern United.

The dugout17 Dec 2029

When it matters, James Kirwan plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad17 Dec 2029

James Kirwan named player of the week

One weekend, judged against everybody else's. James Kirwan has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.

Squad17 Dec 2029

A Southern United teenager takes the young player award

Ben Smith is 17, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.

In brief