Marked for Peter Baumgartner
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 33. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match17 Oct 2026
The 86th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Kingstone Mutandwa decided nobody was going anywhere. Grodig had no time left to answer.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason SV Ried will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ante Bajić 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A move Jimmy Martens would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Jimmy Martens is living that version at SV Ried, and it tends to show in the first month.
Match17 Oct 2026
The drought breaks for SV Ried
6 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and Grodig were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at SV Ried
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christopher Wernitznig was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
At 23 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 1‑0 win over Grodig, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Back issues
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Crisis
Squad12 Oct 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. SV Ried will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match10 Oct 2026
No end in sight to SV Ried's wait for a win
6 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at SV Ried has to find a result from somewhere.
Transfer targets12 Oct 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A falling-out at SV Ried
Andreas Leitner and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match10 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market12 Oct 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Konrad Lazaro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Ahmed Azaouagh 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Dejan Radonjić has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at SV Ried will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad5 Oct 2026
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason SV Ried will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match3 Oct 2026
5 matches without a win for SV Ried
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around SV Ried are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SV Ried this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Konrad Ilsanker to a room that had heard them before.
Squad5 Oct 2026
One booking too many, and Yusuf Maart sits out. SV Ried lose him for the sort of avoidable reason that makes a manager's week longer.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
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Crisis
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Daniel Nunoo beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 34. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. SV Ried will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Match26 Sep 2026
No end in sight to SV Ried's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at SV Ried has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Andreas Leitner 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at SV Ried
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Christopher Wernitznig was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match26 Sep 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match28 Sep 2026
SV Ried at the halfway mark
Half the programme played, position 6, 13 on the board. Doubling it is the sum every supporter has done and the only one nobody at the club will do out loud.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 7.99. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
In brief
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Squad
11 new faces, and SV Ried are still learning each other
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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The dugout
David Schloffer dropped after a run of poor form