Marked for Sakaraia Ravai
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market27 May 2030
“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 The request is on a desk at Nasinu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad27 May 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nasinu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match25 May 2030
Nasinu come up short against Rewa
Rewa left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Back issues
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Crisis
Match27 Apr 2030
No end in sight to Nasinu's wait for a win
11 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Nasinu has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad29 Apr 2030
A fracture rules Manasa Levaci out for 22 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nasinu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match27 Apr 2030
A hiding for Nasinu
Beaten 0‑3 by Suva, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Player ratings29 Apr 2030
Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market29 Apr 2030
Akuila Cama hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Nasinu can pretend not to have heard.
Squad29 Apr 2030
47 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
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Squad
The manager makes an example of Jitoko Vulava
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Boardroom
Nobody left the Nasinu dressing room in a hurry
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Squad
Akuila Cama falls out with a teammate over standards
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Uneasy
The terraces11 Mar 2030
Anger at Nasinu spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad11 Mar 2030
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sakaraia Ravai
16 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nasinu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad11 Mar 2030
A fracture rules Manasa Levaci out for 71 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nasinu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad11 Mar 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nasinu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad11 Mar 2030
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Misaele Kaumaitotoya and Nasinu agree another 3 years.
Match9 Mar 2030
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Lautoka defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
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Crisis
Squad4 Mar 2030
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sakaraia Ravai
23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nasinu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad4 Mar 2030
A fracture rules Manasa Levaci out for 78 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nasinu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match2 Mar 2030
Chastening afternoon for Nasinu
A 0‑3 beating by Navua was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Market4 Mar 2030
“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 Nasinu, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad4 Mar 2030
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nasinu this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom4 Mar 2030
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Nasinu
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad4 Mar 2030
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jitoko Vulava commits to Nasinu for another 2 years.
Market4 Mar 2030
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Beniamino Lal is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market4 Mar 2030
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Laisenia Bari has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Crisis
Squad25 Feb 2030
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sakaraia Ravai
30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nasinu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad25 Feb 2030
A fracture rules Manasa Levaci out for 85 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nasinu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market25 Feb 2030
Only the photograph left for Epeli Vunibola
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Epeli Vunibola will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Nasinu the goodbyes have quietly begun.
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Crisis
Squad18 Feb 2030
A knee injury of the worst kind for Sakaraia Ravai
37 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Nasinu lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad18 Feb 2030
A fracture rules Manasa Levaci out for 92 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Nasinu will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom18 Feb 2030
The numbers do not look good at Nasinu
Wages have outrun income and the accountants have started attending meetings they used to send apologies to. Ambition comes second in a season like this.
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Crisis
The terraces11 Feb 2030
The mood at Nasinu has turned into something else
Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.
Squad11 Feb 2030
Sakaraia Ravai damages knee ligaments — 44 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 44 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Boardroom11 Feb 2030
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Nasinu
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.