The Tailevu Naitasiri Gazette
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Tailevu Naitasiri
A 1‑0 win over Lautoka, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Misaele Hughes at 15 — 7.90
The hardest thing about being 15 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Misaele Hughes did not need any: 7.90, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market24 Aug 2026
Turendran 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 Tailevu Naitasiri can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Mosese Nabose was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Door shut on Abishek Mocenica
Tailevu Naitasiri asked and Rewa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market24 Aug 2026
Shivneet Sami attracts admirers
The name of Shivneet Sami has come up in conversations Tailevu Naitasiri were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Nischal Lal 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 Tailevu Naitasiri this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Kalisito Veikoka 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Setareki Kalounaiwai signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Setareki Kalounaiwai commits to Tailevu Naitasiri for another 3 years.
In brief
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- The dugout Iosefo Verevou does not fit this one
- Squad Patrick Mocenica, 16, gets his chance