The Navua Chronicle
Squad22 Mar 2027
Lauren Bali says Navua went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Navua
Kolinio Sivoki 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
Ali Mekawir sends Navua past Labasa
It finished 2‑1, and it was Ali Mekawir’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Navua.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
A masterclass from Zainal Ali
Marked 9.01 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
One of those days for Ali Mekawir
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.64, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Odilo Pinutusta gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Loan watch22 Mar 2027
Samir Hussain counts the days
“I watch every Navua game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Nadi runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Ali Mekawir finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Navua have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Market22 Mar 2027
Experience through the door at Navua
Ryan Boxall arrives at 36 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
In brief
- Market The Ali Mekawir story refuses to die
- Player ratings Asivorosi Rabo runs at them all day
- The terraces The press have found their man in Zainal Ali