The Lautoka Herald
Squad28 Sep 2026
88 days out for Atonio Tuivuna after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Lautoka will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market28 Sep 2026
Atunaisa Naucukidi has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Lautoka they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Mohammed Alam 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 Lautoka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Lautoka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Savenaca Nakalevu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Lautoka count the cost of losing Misaele Tuisese
30 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
Ilisoni Tuinawaivuvu has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Lautoka will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
In brief
- Market The Saula Waqa talk will not go away
- The dugout Sailasa Ratu knocks on the manager’s door
- Market Lautoka put Epeli Vunibola up for sale
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Mohammed Alam