The Nadroga Gazette
Match27 Mar 2027
Joel Chand answers Navua immediately
Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Joel Chand had Nadroga level again within 4 minutes, and Navua never got to play with a lead at all.
Player ratings29 Mar 2027
Nobody could get near Barrie Limoki
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout29 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Taniela Raubula
“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.
Match27 Mar 2027
Nadroga share the spoils with Navua
A 1‑1 draw with Navua leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Boardroom29 Mar 2027
Belts tighten at Nadroga
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 dugout29 Mar 2027
Filipe Goundar on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Filipe Goundar after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Squad29 Mar 2027
Steward Toata named player of the week
One weekend, judged against everybody else's. Steward Toata has come out on top of it, and for most footballers a weekly award is the only silverware a career ever produces.
Looking ahead29 Mar 2027
Samuela Nabenia faces his old club
Lautoka next, and one man in the Nadroga dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
Squad29 Mar 2027
A first team debut at 15 for Ratu Kumar
Off the academy pitches and into a senior shirt, at 15. The parents in the stand will keep the programme, and so will he.
In brief
- Squad Joel Chand is off the mark for Nadroga
- Player ratings Half an hour was enough for Joel Chand
- The dugout Abishek Cama does not fit this one