The Tailevu Naitasiri Gazette
Match19 Aug 2026
Tailevu Naitasiri bow out of the cup
Lautoka go through and Tailevu Naitasiri go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market24 Aug 2026
Rajneel Singh agrees terms with Suva
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Tailevu Naitasiri people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Kitione Baleloa stands alone
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Market24 Aug 2026
Turendran Kumar 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 Tailevu Naitasiri can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Tailevu Naitasiri training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Abhishek Deo 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Taniela Rakariva 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 Tailevu Naitasiri this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Mosese Nabose was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 19. 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Shivneet Sami attracts admirers
The name of Shivneet Sami has come up in conversations Tailevu Naitasiri were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Abhishek Deo
“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.
In brief
- The dugout Marlon Goundar: “No excuses”
- The dugout No place in the plan for France Catarogo
- The dugout When it matters, Ushant Lal plays