The Ba Gazette
Squad6 Mar 2028
Leandro Ruiz damages knee ligaments — 127 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 127 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.
Squad6 Mar 2028
A fracture rules Ruel Grayven out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Ba will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market6 Mar 2028
Mitieli Naiviro has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Ba they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match4 Mar 2028
Ba cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Leandro Ruiz signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Leandro Ruiz commits to Ba for another 3 years.
Squad6 Mar 2028
Rosyad Setiawan 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 Ba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom6 Mar 2028
Graduation day at Ba
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Player ratings6 Mar 2028
Lucas Abarca in the eights
A performance of 9.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market6 Mar 2028
One of our own: Samuela Ravai joins the Ba first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samuela Ravai is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Kolinio Matai joins the Ba first team
- Market One of our own: Jale Krishna joins the Ba first team
- Match Lucas Abarca sends Ba past Tailevu Naitasiri