The Labasa Post
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Tito Kaumaitotoya has until the next board meeting
What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Labasa can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.
Market7 Feb 2028
Timoci Naitini hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Labasa can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Deadline passes with 0 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at Labasa until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Simione Ragoneturaga in trouble away from the ground
Every paper's favourite story and every manager's least. What happened is being dealt with internally, which is the phrase clubs use when they would rather nobody asked again.
Squad7 Feb 2028
A falling-out at Labasa
Milai Perrot and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Akeimi Ralulu 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.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
No hiding place for Ilaisa Vulimainavuso
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ilaisa Vulimainavuso, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Training ground row involving Simione Ragoneturaga
Tempers went at Labasa this week. Nothing a hard session and a quiet word cannot repair, though the story got out all the same.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
Ilaisa Vulimainavuso without the man who signed him
Every squad is half players the manager chose and half players he inherited. Ilaisa Vulimainavuso was chosen, the man who chose him has gone, and he starts again from nothing under the next one.
In brief
- Market The Milai Perrot story refuses to die
- Market Samuel Navoce leaves for nothing
- Market Patrick Krishna leaves for nothing