The Grodig Courier
Match17 Oct 2026
13 matches without a win for Grodig
The run now stands at 13, and the questions being asked around Grodig are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The knee: Sasa Popovič out for 122 days
122 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Grodig lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
David Hillebrand keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Grodig may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Grodig
Philipp Hoffmann 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Sebastian Bauer 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
A bad afternoon for Grodig against SV Ried
0‑1 to SV Ried, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Robert Völkl gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Martin Posch answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The form table has caught Vlado Graboviča
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
In brief
- Player ratings Philipp Hoffmann runs at them all day
- Squad Lukas Gütlbauer speaks, and the room listens
- Player ratings The whistle followed Sebastian Bauer around