Ronesh Kumar

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Marked for Ronesh Kumar

53 Edition

The Nadroga Gazette

2 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market2 Aug 2027

Romit Narayan 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 Nadroga can pretend not to have heard.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Words exchanged at Nadroga

Semesa Sacere and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad2 Aug 2027

Josua Tawake signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Josua Tawake and Nadroga agree another 2 years.

In brief

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46 Edition

The Nadroga Gazette

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Jun 2027

8 saves: Jolame Domonikibau was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings14 Jun 2027

A brace, and Ravinesh Reddy takes the afternoon — 8.37

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ravinesh Reddy provided it, and the 8.37 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings14 Jun 2027

Up for the corner, and Semesa Sacere delivers — 7.61

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Semesa Sacere scored, was marked 7.61, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Player ratings14 Jun 2027

Barrie Limoki runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match12 Jun 2027

Ravinesh Reddy sends Nadroga past Lautoka

It finished 3‑1, and it was Ravinesh Reddy’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Nadroga.

Squad14 Jun 2027

A falling-out at Nadroga

Semesa Sacere and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The terraces14 Jun 2027

One of their own: Barrie Limoki

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

The dugout14 Jun 2027

Romit Narayan 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 terraces14 Jun 2027

The away end at Lautoka goes home happy

3-1, and a corner of somebody else’s ground that outsang the rest of it. Those coaches leave before dawn and nobody outside them mentions it.

In brief

39 Edition

The Nadroga Gazette

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad26 Apr 2027

The knee: Epeli Vunibola out for 27 days

27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Nadroga lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad26 Apr 2027

Semesa Sacere 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 Nadroga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match24 Apr 2027

A bad afternoon for Nadroga against Rewa

0‑2 to Rewa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout26 Apr 2027

No hiding place for Semesa Sacere

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Semesa Sacere, and the manager let it.

The dugout26 Apr 2027

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by Sitiveni Baledrokadroka to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout26 Apr 2027

The plan did not have a place for William Khan

Nobody at Nadroga is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.

The dugout26 Apr 2027

Ronesh Kumar knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Ronesh Kumar trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Player ratings26 Apr 2027

Nobody could get near Barrie Limoki

Successful dribbles: 8. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad26 Apr 2027

The room hears from Beniamino Lebatavatava

“Nobody outside is coming to save us.” It was short, it was not comfortable, and by all accounts the Nadroga squad were quieter afterwards than they had been all season.

In brief