Setareki Hughes

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Marked for Setareki Hughes

171 Edition

The Ba Gazette

5 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad5 Nov 2029

Lucas Abarca 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 Ba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom5 Nov 2029

The owner puts $52.8K into Ba

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.

Squad5 Nov 2029

Words at Ba training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Patrick Joseph 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.

Boardroom5 Nov 2029

Ba are $7.1M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

Boardroom5 Nov 2029

Wages swallow 85% of the Ba income

Every club 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 it has been tried.

The dugout5 Nov 2029

A promise honoured for Isikeli Mocenica

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Ba told Isikeli Mocenica something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout5 Nov 2029

No hiding place for Setareki Hughes

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Setareki Hughes, and the manager let it.

Market5 Nov 2029

Lucas Abarca linked with a move away

The name of Lucas Abarca keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Ba say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout5 Nov 2029

Blake Butler has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Ba 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

Back issues
170 Edition

The Ba Gazette

29 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market29 Oct 2029

Alipate Qaraniqio is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Ba is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad29 Oct 2029

A falling-out at Ba

Lucas Abarca and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Boardroom29 Oct 2029

No signings allowed at Ba

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.

The dugout29 Oct 2029

Liberato Kirwan 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.

Squad29 Oct 2029

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.

Market29 Oct 2029

The Liberato Kirwan talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Ba know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief