The Amstetten Post
Squad22 Feb 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sebastian Wimmer
118 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Amstetten lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad22 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Amstetten
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marco Tilio was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Erkin Yalcin 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 Amstetten this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Amstetten count the cost of losing Raphael Grillitsch
25 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Zaid Tchibara was the difference for Amstetten
Marked 7.55. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
86% of the income goes out in wages at Amstetten
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Philipp Posch on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Philipp Posch after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Sebastian Wimmer
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sebastian Wimmer, and the manager let it.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Amstetten pick somebody else ahead of George Davies
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.
In brief
- The dugout No place in the plan for Marco Tilio
- Match Amstetten draw a blank against Austria Salzburg
- Player ratings Erkin Yalcin was unplayable