Marked for Christopher Krishna
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Match6 Mar 2027
Nowhere to hide for Nadroga
0‑4 against Labasa, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad8 Mar 2027
A one-man rearguard from Jione Naitau
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Nadroga
Semesa Sacere 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 dugout8 Mar 2027
The manager makes an example of Romit Narayan
“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.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
Nobody left the Nadroga dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Epeli Vunibola
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
Boardroom8 Mar 2027
No investment in the facilities at Nadroga
Nothing about this will be in a press release. A plan went upstairs, came back rejected, and the version of the club that would have existed in three years' time just quietly stopped being possible.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Successful dribbles: 13. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
Semesa Sacere 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
The name of Tony Nair has come up in conversations Nadroga were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Christopher Krishna and Nadroga agree another 3 years.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
The deal with Navua is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad11 Jan 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Nadroga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets11 Jan 2027
Nadroga asked and Lautoka said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market11 Jan 2027
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Anare Krishna 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Simione Sorovi 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Too much change too quickly at Nadroga
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad11 Jan 2027
No place for Neemish Prasad in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Nadroga are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout11 Jan 2027
Jone Ralumu is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
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Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
The knee: William Khan out for 20 days
20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Nadroga lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A falling-out at Nadroga
Sakeo Taganeca and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Nadroga training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bhavneet Singh 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.
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Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Nadroga, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Sakeo Taganeca 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Semesa Sacere 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.
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Steady
Boardroom10 Aug 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $42.2K — a club that wants Beniamino Lebatavatava enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Nadroga have gone to Nadi with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Nadroga
Romit Narayan and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Nadroga training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Sakeo Taganeca 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Maleli Drudru 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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Samuela Sauturaga is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.