Marlon Kumar

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63 Edition

The Nasinu Sentinel

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad11 Oct 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Amani Makoe

51 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nasinu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market11 Oct 2027

Peni Qaraniqio asks to leave Nasinu

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout11 Oct 2027

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Market11 Oct 2027

One of our own: Kolinio Lal joins the Nasinu first team

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

Market11 Oct 2027

One of our own: Tuimasi Matai joins the Nasinu first team

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

Squad11 Oct 2027

Words exchanged at Nasinu

Anare Begg 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.

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57 Edition

The Nasinu Sentinel

30 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad30 Aug 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Amani Makoe

95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nasinu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

The terraces30 Aug 2027

Anger at Nasinu spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Match30 Aug 2027

Nasinu are in real trouble now

Position 8, 15 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.

Squad30 Aug 2027

26 days out for Roy Singh after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nasinu will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Boardroom30 Aug 2027

The silence upstairs is getting loud at Nasinu

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

The dugout30 Aug 2027

Maleli Raju: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Nasinu have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets30 Aug 2027

Nasinu rebuffed over Epeli Verevou

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Suva have kept their man, and Nasinu go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad30 Aug 2027

Words exchanged at Nasinu

Kelemedi Matou 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 targets30 Aug 2027

Nasinu try to borrow Apisai Sesewa

Nadi have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

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44 Edition

The Nasinu Sentinel

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings31 May 2027

Marlon Kumar could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.96

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.96, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Player ratings31 May 2027

Bruce Hughes scores twice — 9.24

Two goals and a mark of 9.24 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad31 May 2027

A one-man rearguard from Emori Ragata

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

The dugout31 May 2027

Amani Makoe keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Nasinu may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Player ratings31 May 2027

A first appearance Nirav Kumar will want to forget — 5.76

Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.76, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.

Match29 May 2027

A bad afternoon for Nasinu against Rewa

4‑5 to Rewa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Match29 May 2027

9 goals as Nasinu and Rewa go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 9 goals between Nasinu and Rewa, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad31 May 2027

Bruce Hughes in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nasinu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 May 2027

Maikah Dau 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.

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  • Squad Marlon Kumar signs on for more
  • The dugout Emori Ragata gets picked when it counts
2 Edition

The Nasinu Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Tushal Kumar asks to leave Nasinu

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Maikah Dau stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Maikah Dau and Nasinu agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Nasinu

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

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Josaia Drudru joins the Nasinu first team

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

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Marlon Kumar joins the Nasinu first team

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

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Setareki Krishna joins the Nasinu first team

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

The dugout10 Aug 2026

No hiding place for Maikah Dau

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

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words at Nasinu training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ashok Kumar 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 Aug 2026

Mohammed Shaheer still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Nasinu would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

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