Marked for Uzayr Buksh
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad9 Nov 2026
The knee: Merrill Nand out for 27 days
27 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Rewa lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Transfer targets9 Nov 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
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.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I watch every Rewa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Suva runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
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.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
Everybody at Suva saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Suva
Remueru Tekiate 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Suva
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Amitesh Krishna was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Upbeat
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Time is catching up with James Hoyt
Everybody at Rewa saw it before anybody said it, which is how this always goes. At 36 the decline is real and measurable — 3 points — and the only question left is how the club handles somebody it owes a great deal to.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I watch every Rewa game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Suva runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Asivorosi Rabo 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
The name of Setareki Hughes keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Rewa say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Rewa, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lautoka have kept their man, and Rewa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Suva to sit and watch. I want to come back to Rewa and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Rewa
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and James Pillay was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Setareki Hughes commits to Rewa for another 3 years.
Squad3 Aug 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
Still no offer on the table, and Setareki Hughes’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.
Market3 Aug 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Simione Nabenu and Suva agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 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 Suva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market3 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Suva have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Remueru Tekiate 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Suva, another week without a signature from Kavaia Rawaqa.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Simione Nabenu's contract
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.