The Tusker Post
Squad18 Nov 2030
The knee: Chris Erambo out for 96 days
96 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Tusker lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad18 Nov 2030
A fracture rules Eric Kapaito out for 95 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Tusker will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad18 Nov 2030
The season belongs to Victor Mbaoma
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Tusker have had the benefit of it.
Squad18 Nov 2030
A falling-out at Tusker
Eric Omondi and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout18 Nov 2030
Maxwell Mulili gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout18 Nov 2030
Victor Mbaoma has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Tusker 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.
In brief
- Boardroom Tusker have to sell first
- Market The Edson Silva question follows Tusker around
- The dugout Derrick Onyango has been promised minutes
- The dugout James Mulee knocks on the manager’s door