The Smorgon Herald
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
Smorgon part company with Sergei Ihnatovich
The statement thanked him for his efforts and wished him well, in that order and in about that many words. The search begins immediately.
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
Artem Laptev minds the shop at Smorgon
“I am not thinking past Saturday, and I would advise nobody else to.” The caretaker’s first rule is to pretend the job is small; Artem Laptev recited it perfectly.
Squad5 Mar 2029
A move Ivan Bachauskas would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Ivan Bachauskas is living that version at Smorgon, and it tends to show in the first month.
Match3 Mar 2029
4 matches without a win for Smorgon
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Smorgon are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Christian Intsoen signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Christian Intsoen commits to Smorgon for another 4 years.
Match3 Mar 2029
4 matches without a goal for Smorgon
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Market5 Mar 2029
Ivan Bachauskas is a Smorgon player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Squad5 Mar 2029
Nikita Krasnov 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 Smorgon this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom5 Mar 2029
5 academy graduates step up at Smorgon
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Smorgon
- Market Eduard Filipenko steps up from the Smorgon academy
- Market Smorgon promote Viktar Makas from within