Matt Simpson

Striker - Adelaide United
17 Mar 2033
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299 Edition

The Adelaide United Chronicle

19 Apr 2032
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout19 Apr 2032

Sean Robinson: 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.” Adelaide United have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market19 Apr 2032

Only the photograph left for Dylan Peraić-Cullen

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Dylan Peraić-Cullen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Adelaide United the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad19 Apr 2032

Words at Adelaide United training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ajak Riak 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.

Squad19 Apr 2032

A falling-out at Adelaide United

Sean Robinson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout19 Apr 2032

When it matters, Dylan Pierias plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout19 Apr 2032

Myenty Abena is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout19 Apr 2032

The manager makes an example of Oscar Evans

“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.

Market19 Apr 2032

The Amlani Tatu question follows Adelaide United around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Amlani Tatu’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Market19 Apr 2032

The clock does Max Crocombe’s negotiating for him

4 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee Adelaide United could ask drops and the wages Max Crocombe can ask rise.

In brief

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275 Edition

The Adelaide United Chronicle

3 Nov 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market3 Nov 2031

Paul Magit asks to leave Adelaide United

“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.

The dugout3 Nov 2031

Jake Fletcher keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Adelaide United may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad3 Nov 2031

Tempers go at Adelaide United

Dylan Pierias 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.

Squad3 Nov 2031

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.

The terraces3 Nov 2031

The crowd has taken to Amlani Tatu

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.

Match1 Nov 2031

Adelaide United make home a hard place to visit

8 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Market3 Nov 2031

No place for Kristian Popovic in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Kristian Popovic has his answer from Adelaide United; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market3 Nov 2031

Talks stall between Adelaide United and Max Crocombe

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Player ratings3 Nov 2031

Nobody could get near Dylan Pierias

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief