The Labasa Post
Match11 Oct 2032
Labasa refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 32 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market11 Oct 2032
Filipe Drudru 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 The request is on a desk at Labasa, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market11 Oct 2032
Kartik Sharma has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Labasa they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad11 Oct 2032
Tempers go at Labasa
Akeimi Ralulu 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.
Boardroom11 Oct 2032
Labasa are $5.4M 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.
Squad11 Oct 2032
Words at Labasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Napolioni Baledrokadroka 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.
In brief
- Squad Epeli Cama asks for a word with the manager
- Squad The manager makes an example of Samuela Hughes
- Boardroom Labasa keep producing them
- Market The clock does Ratu Bari’s negotiating for him