Marked for Lachlan Powell
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad7 Aug 2034
Flynn Thomas breaks a bone — 29 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 29 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market7 Aug 2034
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Rewa can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Aug 2034
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Alex Cacace commits to Rewa for another 2 years.
Squad7 Aug 2034
Tempers go at Rewa
Alex Cacace 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.
Market7 Aug 2034
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Rewa will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Boardroom7 Aug 2034
The owner puts $358.6K 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 Aug 2034
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.
Squad7 Aug 2034
Asadbek Baxshilloyev 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.
Market7 Aug 2034
The Alex Cacace talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Rewa know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
In brief
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Market
Still no signature from Mirko Pfarherr
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Boardroom
The Rewa production line keeps running
Back issues
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Triumph
Match29 Apr 2034
Nobody wants to play Rewa right now
5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Market1 May 2034
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Rewa can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 May 2034
Tempers go at Rewa
Alex Cacace 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.
Player ratings1 May 2034
22 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
Squad1 May 2034
Words at Rewa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orlando Thorpe 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.
Player ratings1 May 2034
Marked 9.07 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match29 Apr 2034
Three points for Rewa, 2‑0 the final word against Navua in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings1 May 2034
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.48, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad1 May 2034
7 goals and a season average of 7.36. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.
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Steady
Market27 Mar 2034
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Rewa can pretend not to have heard.
Squad27 Mar 2034
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.
Squad27 Mar 2034
Words at Rewa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Orlando Thorpe 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.
Squad27 Mar 2034
The manager makes an example of Orlando Thorpe
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings27 Mar 2034
Ninety minutes of Joel Anasmo at his very best
Marked 8.27. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Rewa.
Boardroom27 Mar 2034
109% of the income goes out in wages at Rewa
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad27 Mar 2034
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Match25 Mar 2034
It needed Joel Anasmo to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Nasinu, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Player ratings27 Mar 2034
Yves Mbappe could not find anything
5.29. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.
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Upbeat
Market20 Feb 2034
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Rewa can pretend not to have heard.
Market20 Feb 2034
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Issa Ngaradoumbe will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Rewa the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad20 Feb 2034
Tempers go at Rewa
Joel Anasmo 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.
Boardroom20 Feb 2034
No signings allowed at Rewa
The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.
Squad20 Feb 2034
Patrick Joseph 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.
Squad20 Feb 2034
Matthew Sutton 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.