Marked for Amani Tuinakauvadra
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match8 Nov 2027
Every point is an argument now for Nadi
Position 8 and 18 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
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Market8 Nov 2027
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Nadi is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Tempers go at Nadi
Tevita Ravia 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.
Squad8 Nov 2027
A row about effort at Nadi
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aidan Malakai Singh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Nov 2027
Jimson Abana has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Nadi will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Back issues
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Triumph
Match12 Aug 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Rocky Junior obliged against Nadroga. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Nadi.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A brace, and Rocky Junior takes the afternoon — 8.47
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Rocky Junior provided it, and the 8.47 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
What a way to start for Abishek Ravai — 7.34
0 on the scoresheet on his first appearance and a mark of 7.34 beside it. Most debuts are got through; this one was enjoyed, by him and by everybody watching it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Nadi
Vishant Reddy 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Lautoka have kept their man, and Nadi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Rewa 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Christopher Tiko, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 13. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market10 Aug 2026
Nasinu come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Nadi did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Nadi
Vishant Reddy 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: Anare Hughes joins the Nadi first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Anare Hughes is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.