The Ba Gazette
Squad8 Feb 2027
30 days out for Misiwani Nairube after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ba will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market8 Feb 2027
Ruel Grayven turns Nadroga down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market8 Feb 2027
Only the photograph left for Raj Pillay
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Raj Pillay will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ba the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Senirusi Bokini signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Senirusi Bokini and Ba agree another 2 years.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Ba
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Raj Pillay was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout8 Feb 2027
No hiding place for Marlon Naranayanan
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marlon Naranayanan, and the manager let it.
Market8 Feb 2027
The Kishan Sami question follows Ba around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Kishan Sami’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market8 Feb 2027
Ba and Jai Curran-Nicholls are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A season on the outside for Jai Curran-Nicholls
He trains hard, says the right things and goes home to an empty flat. Nobody at Ba has done anything wrong, which is exactly what makes it so difficult to fix.
In brief
- The dugout Senirusi Bokini knocks on the manager's door
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Raj Pillay