Marked for Viliame Prasad
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match16 Jun 2027
The cup run ends for Suva
0‑2 against Lautoka, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings21 Jun 2027
Successful dribbles: 29. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Suva have done the hard part with Nadroga, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad21 Jun 2027
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.
Squad21 Jun 2027
Remueru Tekiate 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 Jun 2027
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The dugout21 Jun 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad21 Jun 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Rishal Shankar and Suva agree another 3 years.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match10 May 2027
Suva are in real trouble now
Position 9, 9 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Suva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Remueru Tekiate 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Words exchanged at Suva
Ramzan Khan 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.
Match8 May 2027
Nadi take the points off Suva
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad10 May 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Salesitino Caucau and Suva agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
The dugout10 May 2027
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 Tito Drudru to a room that had heard them before.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 14. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad10 May 2027
A Suva teenager takes the young player award
Amani Sorovi is 17, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
The dugout10 May 2027
The plan did not have a place for Remueru Tekiate
Nobody at Suva is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Apr 2027
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.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Words at Suva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amitesh Krishna 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.
Match17 Apr 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Tito Drudru was not hiding it after 1‑1, and nobody in the Suva dressing room was either.
Squad19 Apr 2027
Salesitino Caucau is the weekend's best young player
At 20 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Revans Reddy, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
The dugout19 Apr 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Viliame Prasad
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Looking ahead19 Apr 2027
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Rewa in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
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Crisis
Match3 Apr 2027
6 matches without a win for Suva
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Suva are no longer polite ones.
Squad5 Apr 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.
Player ratings5 Apr 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match3 Apr 2027
Suva come up short against Navua
Navua left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad5 Apr 2027
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Squad5 Apr 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Misaele Nakaci and Suva agree another 3 years.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Tito Drudru after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
Boardroom5 Apr 2027
Suva counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Suva now.
The dugout5 Apr 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rishal Shankar, and the manager let it.
In brief
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Squad
A row about effort at Suva
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Looking ahead
A test against the best for Suva
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The dugout
Suva pick somebody else ahead of Viliame Prasad
From our football correspondent
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
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Suva have done the hard part with Ba, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
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 Tito Drudru to a room that had heard them before.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tuimasi Begg commits to Suva for another 3 years.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The plan did not have a place for Dave Radrigai
Nobody at Suva is suggesting he is out of form. The manager simply wanted somebody with a different set of qualities for ninety specific minutes, and there is nothing a player can train to fix that.
Squad24 Aug 2026
At 20 years old, Nishal Sharma became the latest name off the academy production line to be handed a senior shirt.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Viliame Prasad, and the manager let it.