Jack Wale

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Navua
18 Feb 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Jack Wale

23 Edition

The Navua Chronicle

4 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Jovilisi Borisi 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 Navua this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

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Transfer targets

Navua try to borrow Atunaisa Naucukidi

Lautoka have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Navua try to borrow Penisoni Tirau

Ba have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Transfer targets

Navua try to borrow Shivneet Sami

Tailevu Naitasiri have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Market

The Mohammed Ledua conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Nadroga will make the call about Mohammed Ledua this week. Navua have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Squad

Beniamino Baledrokadroka 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.

Market

Ali Mekawir linked with a move away

The name of Ali Mekawir keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Navua say nothing, which says plenty.

Boardroom

Open for business: Navua enter the window

The registration window is open and the phone has started. Between now and the deadline this club will be linked with forty players and sign three, which is the usual ratio.

In brief

Back issues
9 Edition

The Navua Chronicle

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

141 days out for Rinish after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Navua will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Words exchanged at Navua

Jovilisi Borisi 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.

Squad

Monit Chand 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Navua Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Rinish breaks a bone — 169 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 169 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Words exchanged at Navua

Jovilisi Borisi 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.

Market

Eyes on Isaac Raicama again

The phone has started ringing about Isaac Raicama again, and this time the name on the line is Ba. Navua are listening politely and promising nothing.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Setareki Tuisese

Navua asked and Lautoka said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at Navua

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Monit Chand was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Zainal Ali gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Zainal Ali is on it.

In brief

4 Edition

The Navua Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

The small margins put Navua out

Out, 2‑3 to Labasa, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Rinish

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market

Vineet Chand puts it in writing

“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 Navua, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Only the photograph left for Zainal Ali

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Zainal Ali will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Navua the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Navua

Jovilisi Borisi 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.

Player ratings

Jack Wale was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 20. 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.

The dugout

Marlon Waqa answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 2‑3, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

Transfer targets

Navua ask about Setareki Nawalu

A loan enquiry to Lautoka: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Squad

Beniamino Baledrokadroka signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Beniamino Baledrokadroka commits to Navua for another 3 years.

In brief