Over the course of 2025, Aurora went from one of our favourite teams to one of our least favourites.

We still like watching them play — who doesn’t like watching XANTARES? — but ultimately they’re chokers, and the b-tching and moaning and excuses that come after that are a little more than we can handle.

Fortunately, they’re trying to address their issues, bringing in soulfly in place of jottAAA to try and add some more consistency.

Now, this could all go t-ts up when MAJ3R gets a hold of him (and it wouldn’t surprise us if it did) but at a first glance we like this move. soulfly is very comfortable in aggressive roles and very good at them, too. He’s the type of player who could be a long-term successor to XANTARES, should the 3-year-old see a downturn in form in 2026.

He’s also just — albeit at a lower level of competition — had a much better year than jottAAA, and a year of being pretty crap is when things like confidence start to come into effect. Aurora sunk towards the tail-end of 2025 and jottAAA was the first to go down, how deep would you have to reach in order to pull him back up?

Sometimes a change is what’s needed to get back on track, and this is a change that won’t hurt anybody. Aurora get to stay Turkish, soulfly gets his deserved step up, and jottAAA gets to go have another crack at being a decent player elsewhere.

We like it. We just still won’t get our hopes up. You’ve burned us one too many times, lads.

Poll

There aren’t too many rumours regarding transfers at the moment, so we ask you this: