Marked for Sailimone Ravonokula
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad5 Oct 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Danil Baklanov and Labasa agree another 3 years.
Squad5 Oct 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 Labasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I did not go to Suva to sit and watch. I want to come back to Labasa and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market31 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Suva
Ramzan Khan 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Neerav Goundar 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
A new face in his position, and Panapasa Tawakece suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. Suva have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.
Market31 Aug 2026
A season-long look at somebody else’s player: Sailimone Ravonokula arrives from Labasa with something to prove and a return ticket in the drawer. Good loans make everybody richer; this one starts Saturday.
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Triumph
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Mosese Naba obliged against Navua. 2‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Labasa.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A debut Mosese Naba will not forget — 7.53
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.53 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Ilaisa Vulimainavuso will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Labasa the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market24 Aug 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 Labasa, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
Labasa say no — this time
The offer from Suva for Sailimone Ravonokula was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Labasa
Sekove Naivakananumi 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Mosese Naba
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ilaisa Vulimainavuso 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
A mark of 7.94, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.