The Adelaide United Chronicle
Match23 Oct 2027
22 matches without a win for Adelaide United
The run now stands at 22, and the questions being asked around Adelaide United are no longer polite ones.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Craig Goodwin breaks a bone — 59 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 59 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
The terraces25 Oct 2027
Anger at Adelaide United spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
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.
Squad25 Oct 2027
Jonny Yull 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.
Market25 Oct 2027
One of our own: Will Johnson joins the Adelaide United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Will Johnson 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
One of our own: Paul Evans joins the Adelaide United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Paul Evans 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
Blake Thomas steps up from the Adelaide United academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Blake Thomas has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market Shane Webb steps up from the Adelaide United academy
- Loan watch Amlani Tatu wants to come home
- Player ratings Arthur De Lima runs at them all day