The Nasinu Sentinel
Squad8 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jone Naraba
91 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A fracture rules Kalisito Veikoka out for 60 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.
The terraces8 Mar 2027
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 5 of the 23 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
A first appearance Ibrahim Hassan will want to forget — 5.78
Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.78, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Emori Ragata stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Emori Ragata and Nasinu agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Tempers go at Nasinu
Jonetani Buksh 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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Graduation day at Nasinu
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.
Market8 Mar 2027
One of our own: Roy Raju joins the Nasinu first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Roy Raju is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market8 Mar 2027
Jale Verevou steps up from the Nasinu academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jale Verevou 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.
In brief
- Market Nasinu promote Josaia Tuisese from within
- Market Nasinu promote Laisenia Raju from within
- Match Nasinu come up short against Navua