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The Tailevu Naitasiri Gazette

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom12 Feb 2029

Pressure builds in the Tailevu Naitasiri boardroom

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

Market12 Feb 2029

Alipate Nabenia has one foot out of the door

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

The dugout12 Feb 2029

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Squad12 Feb 2029

Altamish Khan stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Altamish Khan and Tailevu Naitasiri agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Tempers go at Tailevu Naitasiri

Evander Nasova 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.

Squad12 Feb 2029

Sikeli Tuiloma 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 dugout12 Feb 2029

When it matters, Rajneel Kumar 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 dugout12 Feb 2029

Marlon Drudru knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Tailevu Naitasiri, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market12 Feb 2029

The window shut and Samuela Nasava is still in the building

Tailevu Naitasiri spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.

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The Tailevu Naitasiri Gazette

25 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces25 Dec 2028

Supporters organise against the Tailevu Naitasiri board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Squad25 Dec 2028

Asaeli Tunidau breaks a bone — 49 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 49 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market25 Dec 2028

Taniela Krishna 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 Tailevu Naitasiri can pretend not to have heard.

Squad25 Dec 2028

A falling-out at Tailevu Naitasiri

Osea Cama and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom25 Dec 2028

Tailevu Naitasiri can only buy what they sell

Nobody has barred the club from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every incoming name comes with an outgoing one attached.

The dugout25 Dec 2028

No hiding place for Alipate Nabenia

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alipate Nabenia, and the manager let it.

The dugout25 Dec 2028

Samuela Nasava gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Samuela Nasava is on it.

The dugout25 Dec 2028

Nickel Ravai 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 Nickel Ravai trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market25 Dec 2028

Sikeli Tuiloma linked with a move away

The name of Sikeli Tuiloma keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Tailevu Naitasiri say nothing, which says plenty.

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The Tailevu Naitasiri Gazette

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match14 Feb 2028

Every point is an argument now for Tailevu Naitasiri

Position 10 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad14 Feb 2028

A fracture rules Mohammed Rasasa out for 37 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tailevu Naitasiri will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market14 Feb 2028

Aporosa Tuinakauvadra has one foot out of the door

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

Squad14 Feb 2028

Words exchanged at Tailevu Naitasiri

Ratu Sorovi 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.

Market14 Feb 2028

Tailevu Naitasiri promote Amani Tiko from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Amani Tiko has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market14 Feb 2028

One of our own: Misaele Krishna joins the Tailevu Naitasiri first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Misaele Krishna is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

The dugout14 Feb 2028

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Squad14 Feb 2028

Tailevu Naitasiri lose Asaeli Tunidau

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

Squad14 Feb 2028

A row about effort at Tailevu Naitasiri

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sikeli Tuiloma was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

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