The Nadi Sentinel
Market21 Feb 2028
Nathan Barrie asks to leave Nadi
“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.
Market21 Feb 2028
Jonasa Ravukitiliva has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Nadi they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Tempers go at Nadi
Rocky Junior 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 dugout21 Feb 2028
Nilkash Prasad frozen out at Nadi
This is not rotation. Nilkash Prasad has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Nadi is pretending otherwise.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Nathan Barrie 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 dugout21 Feb 2028
When it matters, Tuiba Batiratu plays
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
The dugout21 Feb 2028
Vinayak Rao knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vinayak Rao trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market21 Feb 2028
Eneriko Matau linked with a move away
The name of Eneriko Matau keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Nadi say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad21 Feb 2028
Beniamino Lebatavatava is not doing himself any favours
A manager forgives a bad Saturday far more readily than a bad Tuesday, because one of them he can explain and the other one he chose. The reports this week have not been good.
In brief
- The dugout The manager comes out for Nathan Barrie
- Squad Christopher Singh is fit again