Marked for Keni Cagi
From our football correspondent
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Match26 Jul 2027
39 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Market26 Jul 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Rewa people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad26 Jul 2027
At 15, Roy Hughes is already the best thing here
An average of 7.01 in a first team he is several years too young for. Rewa have something, and by now the whole division has noticed.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Rewa
Tevita Waranaivalu 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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Taniela Jale and Rewa agree another 3 years.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
“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.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Keni Cagi 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.
The dugout26 Jul 2027
Leon Kofana 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 Leon Kofana is on it.
Market26 Jul 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Tevita Waranaivalu’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Market14 Jun 2027
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Rewa have lost him in all but the paperwork.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Market14 Jun 2027
Keni Cagi 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 Rewa can pretend not to have heard.
Squad14 Jun 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rewa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Jun 2027
Rewa come up short against Labasa
Labasa left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Match12 Jun 2027
After 4 games, Rewa finally taste it again
The first defeat in 4 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against Labasa; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
Will Kennedy 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 dugout14 Jun 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 1‑2, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Squad14 Jun 2027
4 Rewa players away with their countries
The training ground goes quiet for a fortnight. 4 men have gone off to be somebody else’s players, and the manager is left with the ones nobody has called.
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Squad24 May 2027
23 days out for Madhwan Goundar after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Rewa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Two goals and a mark of 9.23 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market24 May 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Rewa is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Delon Shankar, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 7.87
A mark of 7.87 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad24 May 2027
A falling-out at Rewa
Tevita Waranaivalu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match22 May 2027
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jonasa Ravukitiliva. 3‑1 against Ba, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
The terraces24 May 2027
At 22 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 May 2027
53 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout24 May 2027
“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.
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Squad22 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 87 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Rewa
Tevita Waranaivalu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match20 Mar 2027
Rewa come up short against Ba
Ba left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
“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 dugout22 Mar 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad22 Mar 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sitiveni Jale and Rewa agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Setareki Hughes has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Rewa will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Keni Cagi 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.
Looking ahead22 Mar 2027
Keni Cagi faces his old club
Nasinu next, and one man in the Rewa dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
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Squad1 Mar 2027
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 110 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market1 Mar 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Rewa is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad1 Mar 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rewa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom1 Mar 2027
Rewa counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Rewa now.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
Nobody at Rewa will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Keni Cagi 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Stefan Reid moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Rewa than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
Looking ahead1 Mar 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Lautoka in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The dugout1 Mar 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
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Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Rewa
Tevita Waranaivalu 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Asivorosi Rabo 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.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
“I watch every Rewa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Lautoka runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Leon Kofana 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 Leon Kofana is on it.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Asivorosi Rabo asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market15 Feb 2027
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Isikeli Sevanaia signs something — a contract at Rewa or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.
Squad15 Feb 2027
A season on the outside for Tito Drudru
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Rewa has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
Market15 Feb 2027
Window shut, Keni Cagi still here
Rewa spent the window trying to move Keni Cagi on and nobody came. He trains with a squad that has already told him he is not part of it, and both sides now wait for the next one.
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Market8 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Uzayr Buksh
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Uzayr Buksh will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rewa the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Rewa
Tevita Waranaivalu 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kolinio Waqa has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Rewa will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Rewa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Keni Cagi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
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 Asivorosi Rabo is on it.
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Market18 Jan 2027
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Nasinu waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Rewa is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Rewa have done the hard part with Nadi, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Rewa
Tevita Waranaivalu 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
The name of Uzayr Buksh has come up in conversations Rewa were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Isikeli Sevanaia, and the manager let it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Rewa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Keni Cagi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Leon Kofana has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Rewa will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Peniame Drova has written the date down.
Market18 Jan 2027
The Josaia Sela story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Josaia Sela signs something — a contract at Rewa or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Market11 Jan 2027
Nasinu come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Rewa did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Rewa
Tevita Waranaivalu 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Waitakere United have kept their man, and Rewa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Nadi 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Rewa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Keni Cagi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
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.
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Market4 Jan 2027
“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 Rewa, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rewa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Rewa 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.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Asivorosi Rabo, and the manager let it.
Market4 Jan 2027
Lautoka are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Rewa will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Nobody at Rewa will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Rewa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. James Pillay 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The name of Setareki Hughes keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Rewa say nothing, which says plenty.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
Open for business: Rewa 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.
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Market9 Nov 2026
Only the photograph left for Delon Shankar
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Delon Shankar will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rewa the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad9 Nov 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 Rewa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad9 Nov 2026
A muscle injury and 17 days out for Keni Cagi
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Rewa will quote 17 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
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Market12 Oct 2026
Delon Shankar has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Rewa they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad12 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 Rewa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout12 Oct 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.
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Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 14 in, 1 out at Rewa
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Nadi is saying, and nobody at Rewa is enjoying the guessing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Rewa
Tevita Waranaivalu and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A deal that was a phone call from completion at lunchtime was dead by midnight. Rewa will try again when the window opens; Lautoka may not be selling by then.
The dugout7 Sep 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Rewa, another week without a signature from Peniame Drova.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Rewa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jolame Domonikibau was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Keni Cagi is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Keni Cagi has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Rewa than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
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Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Suva waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Rewa is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Rewa
Tevita Waranaivalu 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Dave Qaraniqio joins the Rewa first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dave Qaraniqio is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alipate Kaumaitotoya has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Jale Tiko steps up from the Rewa academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jale Tiko has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Neemish Prasad
“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.