The Lautoka Herald
Match10 Apr 2028
Lautoka are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 11 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Raymond Daniels signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Raymond Daniels and Lautoka agree another 1 years.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Words at Lautoka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sairusi Nalaubu 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.
Match8 Apr 2028
Ilaisa Vulimainavuso sends Lautoka past Suva
It finished 2‑1, and it was Ilaisa Vulimainavuso’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Lautoka.
Market10 Apr 2028
No place for Edwin Sahayan in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Edwin Sahayan has his answer from Lautoka; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Squad10 Apr 2028
No hiding place for Penisoni Tirau
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Penisoni Tirau, and the manager let it.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
The afternoon belonged to Ilaisa Vulimainavuso
A mark of 7.55, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Squad10 Apr 2028
Yeldos Postnikov 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 Lautoka this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings10 Apr 2028
Shivam Naidu runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market The Atonio Tuivuna story refuses to die
- Market Lautoka put Senirusi Bokini up for sale
- Boardroom The Lautoka production line keeps running