Marked for Patrick Krishna
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad14 Dec 2026
14 days out for Patrick Krishna after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Suva will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Nischal Lal 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 Suva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tuimasi Cama and Suva agree another 3 years.
In brief
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Squad
A row about effort at Suva
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Tuimasi Cama
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad7 Dec 2026
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Suva
Nischal Lal 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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Suva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amitesh Krishna 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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad30 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Patrick Krishna out for 28 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Suva will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Suva
Nischal Lal and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“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.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Kavaia Rawaqa
18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Suva lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad23 Nov 2026
36 days out for Patrick Krishna after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Suva will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Suva
Rishal Shankar and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Suva training over how hard people work
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The dugout
Sitiveni Bari asks for a word with the manager
From our football correspondent
Steady
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $22.2K — a club that wants Eneriko Matau enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Tailevu Naitasiri this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The offer went to Nadi this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Suva
Akuila Mateisuva 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Anare Waqa has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Patrick Krishna has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Patrick Matai joins the Suva first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Patrick Matai is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Anare 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Suva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Amitesh Krishna 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.
In brief
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Squad
Too much change too quickly at Suva
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Squad
Questions about Simione Nabenu on the training pitch