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Horror injuries as well as corona cases and game postponements non-stop – hardly any club was hit as badly in autumn as this one SV Wals-Grunau. At the end of a chaotic regular season, the men in green and white are in ninth place. Because there is no relegation this year, trainers become Franz Aigner and Co. will use the spring championship that starts next weekend to start the next game year. Absolutely tasty: The possible return of the time-honoured Regionalliga West format.
Photo credit: Adi Aschauer
“Bird-free year” has gone wild so far
14 points from 18 games brought SV Wals-Grünau ninth and penultimate place in the table. Coach Franz Aigner still gave the thumbs up: “We’re very satisfied, especially I as a coach. It hit us from all sides, we’ve always had problems.” With four cruciate ligament tears, one ligament tear and Felix Ebner’s long-Covid diagnosis, the Aigner crew hit bitterly. “We had such bad luck with the findings. As a result, we had to pull many players up from the 1b who did their job quite well,” Aigner continued. In addition, all games had to be postponed due to corona cases – the Grünau appointment calendar was literally bursting at the seams for the autumn retreat. The green-whites were miles away from a game rhythm: in September they played three games, from the beginning of October to the beginning of November finally a whopping eight. It is completely legitimate that the Aigner protégés hope for a regulated and injury-free and corona-free season. Because of the lack of a relegation scenario, Aigner speaks of a “free year”: “There are no relegations. So we have another six months to put together a good team for the next season.”
Players have to step on the gas – elimination races in the spring
In the next championship year, one topic will provide a lot of topics for conversation: the possible return of the well-known Regionalliga West, in which, like a few years ago, clubs from Vorarlberg, Tyrol and Salzburg are to match. “We should finish in the top five next year – that’s also the goal,” says Aigner, ratcheting up the club’s internal expectations. The Grünauer tamer sees the spring that is about to begin as a “qualification” for the squad players and is already announcing reinforcements for 2022/23: “The team should also feel the pressure. Four or five good players will come in the summer. And we’ll see about that now , who is developing and will still be there in the summer.” In principle, the focus is on development until the end of the season. “Of course we also want to annoy one or the other,” adds Aigner. The first team to be given a Haxerl is FC Pinzgau Saalfelden. Already on Friday in three days the Saalfeldener will be guests in Grünau when it means: spring start in the regional league Salzburg.
winter transfers
Additions: Niclas Heller (Austria Salzburg), Fabian Ruf (Adnet)
Departures: Nemanja Zikic (Kapfenberg), Florian Schindl (career break)
Autumn 2021 in figures
- League fewest goals scored (16)
- Worst second half team (9 games, 5 points)
- Biggest win: 3-0 against Anif
- Highest defeat: 0:3 against Bischofshofen, St. Johann, FC Pinzgau, Kuchl
- Top scorer: Marcel Bernhofer (5)