The Lautoka Herald
Squad29 Jan 2029
A fracture rules Panapasa Tawakece out for 104 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Lautoka will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market29 Jan 2029
Lachlan Middleton is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Lautoka is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Transfer targets29 Jan 2029
The paperwork begins on Areya Prasad
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Lautoka have done the hard part with Ba, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets29 Jan 2029
Ba tell Lautoka: Christopher Hill is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad29 Jan 2029
Words exchanged at Lautoka
Saula Waqa 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 dugout29 Jan 2029
When it matters, Sairusi Nalaubu 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.
In brief
- Boardroom Nobody arrives at Lautoka until somebody leaves
- Market The Saula Waqa question follows Lautoka around
- The dugout Marco Kirwan asks for a word with the manager
- Squad Welcome back, Dave Raju