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493 Edition

The Rewa Herald

7 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom7 Jan 2036

Rewa put Tuimasi Mocenica on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market7 Jan 2036

Nadroga come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Rewa did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad7 Jan 2036

The season belongs to Joshua Cantt

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Rewa have had the benefit of it.

Market7 Jan 2036

Caleb Gordon puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Rewa, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market7 Jan 2036

Eyes on Tate Johnson again

The phone has started ringing about Tate Johnson again, and this time the name on the line is Labasa. Rewa are listening politely and promising nothing.

Boardroom7 Jan 2036

The owner puts $245.6K into Rewa

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

Boardroom7 Jan 2036

Rewa cannot sign anybody

The embargo bars a fee being paid for a player, whatever the manager thinks the squad needs. Every rumour printed about this club between now and its lifting is a rumour about a deal that cannot happen.

Boardroom7 Jan 2036

Rewa are $11.8M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

Squad7 Jan 2036

Bill Wood 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 Rewa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

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The Rewa Herald

31 Dec 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad31 Dec 2035

The season belongs to Abongwe Newman

An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Rewa have had the benefit of it.

Market31 Dec 2035

Osea Tuisese asks to leave Rewa

“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.

Squad31 Dec 2035

Behruz Soatov 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.

Squad31 Dec 2035

Tempers go at Rewa

Bill Wood 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.

Market31 Dec 2035

Rewa buy the years ahead of Peter Johnson

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad31 Dec 2035

Thabo Nkabinde has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Rewa 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.

In brief