The Ba Gazette
Market22 Jan 2029
Rahul Naresh asks to leave Ba
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market22 Jan 2029
Terms done: Reuben Egan is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Nadi waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Ba is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Match22 Jan 2029
Ba are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 31 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market22 Jan 2029
Tailevu Naitasiri come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Ba did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Market22 Jan 2029
Will Smith is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ba is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 Jan 2029
Words exchanged at Ba
Lucas Abarca 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.
In brief
- The dugout Rahul Naresh has become a man the manager trusts
- The dugout Kalaveti Sivoi knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Welcome back, Epeli Singh