Maleli Kumar

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Ba U18
5 Sep 2036
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520 Edition

The Ba Gazette

14 Jul 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad14 Jul 2036

Maleli Kumar damages knee ligaments — 14 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 14 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Market14 Jul 2036

Jason Gallagher agrees terms with Suva

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Ba people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market14 Jul 2036

Hugh Lawrence puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Ba, and it is not being withdrawn.

The dugout14 Jul 2036

Damien Doyle says Ba went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market14 Jul 2036

Owen Richards 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.

Market14 Jul 2036

Eyes on David Henderson again

The phone has started ringing about David Henderson again, and this time the name on the line is Nadroga. Ba are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad14 Jul 2036

Ba lose Beniamino Naranayanan

37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout14 Jul 2036

No hiding place for Jake Glossop

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

The dugout14 Jul 2036

A promise honoured at Ba

Something was said to Connor Reid and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief

  • Squad Words exchanged at Ba
  • The dugout Jetzen Lopez knocks on the manager's door
  • Boardroom Ba keep producing them
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519 Edition

The Ba Gazette

7 Jul 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom7 Jul 2036

12 points gone: Ba in administration

This is the morning a town finds out what the accounts have been doing while it watched the football. The debt gets written down to something payable, and the football pays for it in points.

Squad7 Jul 2036

Maleli Kumar damages knee ligaments — 21 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 21 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match7 Jul 2036

The season ends: position 3 for Ba

The last league game has been played and the table has stopped moving: 25 points. The summer begins on Monday, and so does the argument about what it all meant.

Market7 Jul 2036

Terms done: Owen O'Neill is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Suva waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Ba is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Player ratings7 Jul 2036

No sign of nerves from Connor Reid at 21 — 8.27

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Connor Reid did not need any: 8.27, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market7 Jul 2036

Jason Dau hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Ba can pretend not to have heard.

Market7 Jul 2036

Only the photograph left for Jai De Vries

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jai De Vries will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Ba the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad7 Jul 2036

A falling-out at Ba

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

Match5 Jul 2036

A bad afternoon for Ba against Labasa

2‑3 to Labasa, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief

  • Boardroom $430.8K from the owner keeps Ba afloat
  • Boardroom Embargo at Ba
  • Squad A month that belonged to Connor Reid
518 Edition

The Ba Gazette

30 Jun 2036
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad30 Jun 2036

The knee: Maleli Kumar out for 28 days

28 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ba lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market30 Jun 2036

David Henderson agrees terms with Labasa

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Ba people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market30 Jun 2036

Shafic Ssebyala says no to Nadroga

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Shafic Ssebyala had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Player ratings30 Jun 2036

Connor Reid, 21, steals the show — 8.04

Marked 8.04 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Market30 Jun 2036

Saad Moukachar asks to leave Ba

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings30 Jun 2036

Hope Linus goes up and wins it — 7.98

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.98 for the rest of it.

Player ratings30 Jun 2036

Up for the corner, and Oliver Hewitt delivers — 7.86

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Oliver Hewitt scored, was marked 7.86, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Market30 Jun 2036

Alex Wright 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.

Match28 Jun 2036

Still nobody has beaten Ba

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

In brief

  • Match Oliver Hewitt the difference as Ba beat Lautoka
  • Boardroom Wages eat 221% of everything Ba earn
  • Match The run at home goes on for Ba