Marked for Ashok Kumar
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
Mohammed Rasasa damages knee ligaments — 76 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 76 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Alvish Ram out for 76 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nasinu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market9 Nov 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nasinu, and it is not being withdrawn.
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Squad12 Oct 2026
Mohammed Rasasa damages knee ligaments — 104 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 104 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market12 Oct 2026
Ashok Kumar hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nasinu can pretend not to have heard.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jonetani Buksh and Nasinu agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Uneasy
Market14 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nasinu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Amani Makoe 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nasinu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Manit Lal
“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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The competition arrived without a word said to him about it. Taniela Rakariva keeps the shirt for now, at Nasinu's convenience rather than his own.
Market14 Sep 2026
The name of Jonetani Buksh keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Nasinu say nothing, which says plenty.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Jone Naraba 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 Nasinu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Nasinu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amani Makoe is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
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Match12 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Nasinu
0‑0 against Tailevu Naitasiri, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Emori Ragata is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Emori Ragata: 1 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Market17 Aug 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 24, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Nasinu
Jone Naraba 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Nasinu training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nasoni Mereke is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Iliesa Rakuka, and the manager let it.