The Adelaide United Chronicle
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Craig Goodwin
67 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ryan Kitto breaks a bone — 116 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 116 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Jonny Yull, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.73
A mark of 7.73 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Adelaide United
Joshua Smits 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Adelaide United lose Jay Barnett
20 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Amlani Tatu
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
Graduation day at Adelaide United
2 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 terraces26 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Jonny Yull
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Market26 Oct 2026
Adelaide United promote Cameron Marshall from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cameron Marshall 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 Oliver Patterson steps up from the Adelaide United academy
- Match Honours even between Adelaide United and Central Coast Mariners
- Boardroom Adelaide United spend it where nobody looks