Dane Bell

Left Midfielder - Suva
12 Feb 2028
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The Suva Courier

7 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad7 Feb 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Akuila Mateisuva

75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Suva lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom7 Feb 2028

Kolinio Kumar has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Suva can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Boardroom7 Feb 2028

The Suva board call everybody in

Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Akuila Mateisuva 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.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Kavaia Rawaqa 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.

Squad7 Feb 2028

Alex Kirwan stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Alex Kirwan and Suva agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

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The Southern United Herald

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Aug 2027

Real improvement from Liberato Rufer at Southern United

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Liberato Rufer is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Sam Kirwan has improved at 25, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Squad16 Aug 2027

James Colvey 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.

Squad16 Aug 2027

No hiding place for Junior Gqabashe

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Junior Gqabashe, and the manager let it.

Market16 Aug 2027

No place for Owen Barbarouses in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Owen Barbarouses has his answer from Southern United; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

Market16 Aug 2027

Deklan Reid leaves for nothing

Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Deklan Reid leaves Southern United the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.

In brief