The Adelaide United Chronicle
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Jonny Yull, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.11
A mark of 8.11 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match24 Oct 2026
Adelaide United see off Central Coast Mariners
Three points for Adelaide United, 4‑3 the final word against Central Coast Mariners in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Match24 Oct 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Adelaide United and Central Coast Mariners in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Boardroom26 Oct 2026
1 academy players handed senior numbers at Adelaide United
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Jonny Yull
At 21 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Joshua Smits
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joshua Smits, and the manager let it.
Market26 Oct 2026
One of our own: Nathan Phillips joins the Adelaide United first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nathan Phillips is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Ben Folami was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.58. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ajak Riak 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.
In brief
- The terraces Adelaide United's travelling support get something back at Central Coast Mariners
- Squad Alessandro Lopane in a row with a teammate
- Loan watch Amlani Tatu counts the days