The Suva Courier
Match16 Jun 2027
Suva bow out of the cup
Lautoka go through and Suva 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.
Match19 Jun 2027
Suva throw away a 2-goal lead
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Tailevu Naitasiri the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Suva will enjoy reviewing.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Merrill Nand scores twice — 8.22
Two goals and a mark of 8.22 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match19 Jun 2027
The wait goes on for Suva
5 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match19 Jun 2027
Suva come up short against Tailevu Naitasiri
Tailevu Naitasiri left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A move Gilang Ardha would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Gilang Ardha is living that version at Suva, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Words at Suva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Panapasa Tawakece 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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Ramzan Khan 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 Suva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Neerav Goundar
“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
- Player ratings Usaia Tilivarua runs at them all day
- Market A long bet from Suva on Alexandr Besstrashnikov
- Market Suva add cover with Gilang Ardha