Patrick Bari

Central Defender - Suva
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139 Edition

The Suva Courier

26 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom26 Mar 2029

The interim tag comes off Napolioni Sorovi

Suva interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: Napolioni Sorovi keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.

Squad26 Mar 2029

10 saves: Bill De Vries was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Match24 Mar 2029

Suva end the wait against Ba

It had gone 7 games. The players did not celebrate like men who had won a match; they celebrated like men who had been let out of something.

The terraces26 Mar 2029

The crowd has taken to Salesitino Caucau

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match24 Mar 2029

Suva see off Ba

Three points for Suva, 1‑0 the final word against Ba in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad26 Mar 2029

Luca Gatt 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.

The dugout26 Mar 2029

Napolioni Sorovi: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 1‑0, already talking about the next one.

Boardroom26 Mar 2029

Nobody arrives at Suva until somebody leaves

The club is not barred from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every name linked with Suva this window arrives with a name leaving in the same sentence.

The dugout26 Mar 2029

The manager makes an example of Roy Naranayanan

“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

Back issues
138 Edition

The Suva Courier

19 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match17 Mar 2029

The wait goes on for Suva

7 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.

Market19 Mar 2029

Jack Landreth has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Suva they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match17 Mar 2029

A bad afternoon for Suva against Nadroga

1‑2 to Nadroga, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad19 Mar 2029

Tempers go at Suva

Salesitino Caucau 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.

The dugout19 Mar 2029

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Napolioni Sorovi to a room that had heard them before.

The dugout19 Mar 2029

Iliesa Rakuka 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.

The dugout19 Mar 2029

The form table has caught Patrick Bari

Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.

Looking ahead19 Mar 2029

Simione Nabenu goes back to face Ba

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Simione Nabenu’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Suva needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Market19 Mar 2029

The Simione Nabenu story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Simione Nabenu signs something — a contract at Suva or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

137 Edition

The Suva Courier

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces12 Mar 2029

Anger at Suva spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match10 Mar 2029

The wait goes on for Suva

6 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.

Boardroom12 Mar 2029

Suva still without a manager

11 days since the seat came open, a list of names doing the rounds, and nobody has signed anything. Every week this drags on the shortlist gets shorter.

Squad12 Mar 2029

Salesitino Caucau 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.

Player ratings12 Mar 2029

Nobody could get near Viliame Mocenica

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match10 Mar 2029

Labasa blown away early

There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. Labasa tried to reorganise, Suva did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.

Squad12 Mar 2029

Suva lose Sakaraia Naisua

19 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Match10 Mar 2029

Salesitino Caucau rescues a point for Suva

It needed Salesitino Caucau to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Labasa, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout12 Mar 2029

The manager makes an example of Revans Reddy

“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 The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Patrick Bari
  • Looking ahead A reunion for Mitieli Naiviro