Dave Kumar

Right Forward - Labasa U18
25 Dec 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Dave Kumar

77 Edition

The Labasa Post

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The mood at Labasa has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Labasa boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Market

Sailimone Ravonokula asks to leave Labasa

“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.

Transfer targets

Misiwani Nairube due for a Labasa medical

Everything agreed with Ba, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.0K for Amani Tuisese

Labasa have gone to Lautoka with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Boardroom

Belts tighten at Labasa

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

The dugout

Sailimone Ravonokula faces a manager he fell out with

They have worked together before and it did not end well. Nobody at Labasa expects the new manager to have forgotten, least of all Sailimone Ravonokula.

Squad

Words exchanged at Labasa

Simione Ragoneturaga 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.

The dugout

Jitoko Vulava has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Labasa 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

Back issues
74 Edition

The Labasa Post

27 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Labasa are in real trouble now

Position 10, 10 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

17 days out for Dave Kumar after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Labasa will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

Nemani Dolodai puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Labasa, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout

Sailimone Ravonokula faces a manager he fell out with

They have worked together before and it did not end well. Nobody at Labasa expects the new manager to have forgotten, least of all Sailimone Ravonokula.

Squad

Words exchanged at Labasa

Nemani Dolodai 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.

The dugout

Senirusi Bokini asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief