The Tailevu Naitasiri Gazette
Market5 Oct 2026
France Catarogo 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 The request is on a desk at Tailevu Naitasiri, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages eat 119% of everything Tailevu Naitasiri earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Tailevu Naitasiri
Nischal Lal 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Kalisito Veikoka 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A step back for Taniela Rakariva at Tailevu Naitasiri
Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Mosese Nabose has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tailevu Naitasiri 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.
In brief
- The dugout Kitione Baleloa knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad The penny has dropped for Ravikash Krishna
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on France Catarogo