The Rotherham United Courier
Squad28 Sep 2037
Kian Spence breaks a bone — 29 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 29 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad28 Sep 2037
Daniel Ellis damages knee ligaments — 35 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 35 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.
Squad28 Sep 2037
Thomas Russell keeps Rotherham United in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 10 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings28 Sep 2037
Age has not caught Jamal Baptiste yet — 8.67
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.67 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad28 Sep 2037
Nolan Tabar 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 Rotherham United this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match26 Sep 2037
Honours even between Rotherham United and Middlesbrough
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Market28 Sep 2037
The Kian Spence story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Kian Spence signs something — a contract at Rotherham United or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Player ratings28 Sep 2037
Nobody could get near Kenji Goes
Successful dribbles: 9. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Boardroom28 Sep 2037
Rotherham United keep producing them
96 graduates from an academy now rated 7 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.
In brief
- Market Rotherham United put Liam Evans up for sale
- The terraces The press have found their man in Jamal Baptiste