The Adelaide United Chronicle
Squad25 Oct 2027
Joshua Smits breaks a bone — 48 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 48 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match23 Oct 2027
The wait goes on for Adelaide United
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market25 Oct 2027
Craig Goodwin has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Adelaide United they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Player ratings25 Oct 2027
Medin Memeti, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.74
A mark of 7.74 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Tempers go at Adelaide United
Craig Goodwin 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.
Boardroom25 Oct 2027
Graduation day at Adelaide United
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
The terraces25 Oct 2027
Adelaide United supporters have found a favourite in Medin Memeti
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Medin Memeti 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.
Market25 Oct 2027
One of our own: Gavin Harris joins the Adelaide United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Gavin Harris is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market25 Oct 2027
Adelaide United promote Peter Fletcher from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Peter Fletcher has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Aidan Stewart steps up from the Adelaide United academy
- Squad Adelaide United pick somebody else ahead of Ajak Riak
- Squad The manager makes an example of Damián Gómez