The Nadroga Gazette
Squad11 Feb 2036
The knee: Beniamino Begg out for 72 days
72 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.
Transfer targets11 Feb 2036
Shafic Ssebyala turns down Nadroga
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Ba keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad11 Feb 2036
Words exchanged at Nadroga
Abdul Naviko 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.
Market11 Feb 2036
One of our own: Nickel Tuyaga joins the Nadroga first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nickel Tuyaga is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Feb 2036
One of our own: Beniamino Mocenica joins the Nadroga first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Beniamino Mocenica is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Feb 2036
One of our own: Malakai Baledrokadroka joins the Nadroga first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Malakai Baledrokadroka is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Feb 2036
Patrick Jale steps up from the Nadroga academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrick Jale 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.
The dugout11 Feb 2036
Napolioni Verevou knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Nadroga, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Boardroom11 Feb 2036
Nadroga keep producing them
108 graduates from an academy now rated 7 out of 20. A club this size does not survive any other way, and every name on that list is known in the town.
In brief
- Squad Questions about Isikeli Raju on the training pitch
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Kolinio Kumar