The Lautoka Herald
Squad28 Sep 2026
Zibraaz Sahib damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
Saula Waqa hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Lautoka can pretend not to have heard.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Lautoka
Sairusi Nalaubu was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Lautoka
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Osea Cama
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Osea Cama, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Market The Atonio Tuivuna talk will not go away
- Squad The penny has dropped for Sairusi Nalaubu