Ignas Simkus

Left Midfielder - Siauliai
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463 Edition

The Siauliai Gazette

11 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market11 Jun 2035

Yahor Noyok 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 The request is on a desk at Siauliai, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad11 Jun 2035

Ignas Simkus: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Siauliai have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad11 Jun 2035

Tempers go at Siauliai

Azriel Gonzalez 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.

Squad11 Jun 2035

Nicola Rafanelli 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.

Squad11 Jun 2035

The manager makes an example of Ignas Kazlauskas

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Market11 Jun 2035

Enea Likaj leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Enea Likaj leaves Siauliai the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief

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457 Edition

The Siauliai Gazette

30 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces30 Apr 2035

The mood at Siauliai has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad30 Apr 2035

Azriel Gonzalez breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match28 Apr 2035

Nowhere to hide for Siauliai

0‑7 against Utenis, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Match30 Apr 2035

Siauliai are in real trouble now

Position 7, 4 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad30 Apr 2035

A one-man rearguard from Saulius Lasickas

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market30 Apr 2035

Lukas Klimavicius 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 Siauliai, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad30 Apr 2035

Tempers go at Siauliai

Azriel Gonzalez 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.

Match28 Apr 2035

7 goals as Siauliai and Utenis go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Siauliai and Utenis, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad30 Apr 2035

The manager makes an example of Muhammed Sevgili

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

  • Boardroom Nobody left the Siauliai dressing room in a hurry
  • Player ratings Jack Mitchell turns it into his own net
  • Player ratings Ignas Simkus runs at them all day
454 Edition

The Siauliai Gazette

9 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad9 Apr 2035

Saulius Lasickas keeps Siauliai in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 13 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad9 Apr 2035

Azriel Gonzalez breaks a bone — 38 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 38 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad9 Apr 2035

Donatas Eliosius damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match4 Apr 2035

The cup run ends for Siauliai

0‑3 against Suduva, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Match7 Apr 2035

Cruel end for Stumbras as Siauliai pounce

There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Siauliai scored in the 94th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.

Player ratings9 Apr 2035

A brace, and Jack Mitchell takes the afternoon — 8.26

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jack Mitchell provided it, and the 8.26 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

The terraces9 Apr 2035

Siauliai are taken apart by Suduva — and the town wants answers

It finished 0-3. A cup exit is a disappointment; this was a public dismantling, and the difference between the two is the number of people who will still be talking about it in August.

Market9 Apr 2035

Modestas Slavickas asks to leave Siauliai

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad9 Apr 2035

Azriel Gonzalez 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 Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

405 Edition

The Siauliai Gazette

1 May 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad1 May 2034

A knee injury of the worst kind for Saulius Lasickas

91 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Siauliai lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The terraces1 May 2034

Anger at Siauliai 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.

Match29 Apr 2034

Siauliai taken apart

2‑5 to Utenis, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Match1 May 2034

Siauliai sink to position 7

6 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Player ratings1 May 2034

Ignas Simkus, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.60

A mark of 7.60 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.

Squad1 May 2034

Azriel Gonzalez 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 Siauliai this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match29 Apr 2034

Ayrton Figueira among the goals in a wild afternoon

7 goals in one match, Ayrton Figueira on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Siauliai and Utenis.

Player ratings1 May 2034

Ninety minutes of Zakhar Gitselev at his very best

Marked 8.11. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Siauliai.

Squad1 May 2034

Words at Siauliai training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicola Rafanelli 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.

In brief