Marked for Epeli Singh
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad8 Mar 2027
93 days out for Akuila Mateisuva after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Suva will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad8 Mar 2027
The knee: Faizal Ali out for 78 days
78 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Suva lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Marked 7.70 at 15, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad8 Mar 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kavaia Rawaqa and Suva agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Suva
Akuila Mateisuva 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
Suva come up short against Nadi
Nadi left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
No investment in the facilities at Suva
Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Epeli Singh, and the manager let it.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad11 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Dave Radrigai out for 36 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Suva will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Suva
Akuila Mateisuva 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.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Tailevu Naitasiri wanted more than $1.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Market11 Jan 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Dave Nakaci 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Suva
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Peniasi Rotidara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
A loan enquiry to Ba: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
Remueru Tekiate damages knee ligaments — 46 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 46 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Dave Radrigai breaks a bone — 78 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 78 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad30 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Suva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
74 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Suva lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad2 Nov 2026
106 days out for Dave Radrigai after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Suva will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A falling-out at Suva
Remueru Tekiate and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Remueru Tekiate
102 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Suva lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad5 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Suva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Suva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ramzan Khan 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.
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Crisis
Match19 Aug 2026
Suva out of the cup
Ba ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
The deal with Ba is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Suva
Akuila Mateisuva 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Suva
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Remueru Tekiate was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Malakai Qaraniqio to a room that had heard them before.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Samuela Waqa and Suva agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Revans Reddy
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad24 Aug 2026
At 20 years old, Nishal Sharma became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.