The RoPS Herald
Match17 Jun 2028
RoPS taken apart
0‑3 to SJK, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Vladyslav Hevlych says RoPS went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Finn Heiserholt 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 RoPS this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market19 Jun 2028
One of our own: Saku Valakari joins the RoPS first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Saku Valakari is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Jun 2028
RoPS promote Urho Lod from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Urho Lod has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market19 Jun 2028
One of our own: Markku Jensen joins the RoPS first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Markku Jensen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Jun 2028
One of our own: Erik Taylor joins the RoPS first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Erik Taylor is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad19 Jun 2028
Tatu Lakela 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.
Squad19 Jun 2028
The manager makes an example of Berat Eskin
“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.
In brief
- Boardroom Nobody left the RoPS dressing room in a hurry
- Player ratings Agustín Segundo runs at them all day