Marked for Christopher Wasasala
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market25 Jan 2027
“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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Nadi come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Labasa did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Joji Vuakaca 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Labasa
Sekove Naivakananumi 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.
Market25 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Nadroga have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Rajiv Sharma. The answer from Labasa has not changed — yet.
Market25 Jan 2027
The name of Jimson Abana keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Labasa say nothing, which says plenty.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market11 Jan 2027
Nasinu come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Labasa did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Joji Vuakaca 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 Labasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market11 Jan 2027
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Labasa have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Netani Suluka has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Labasa 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Labasa have let the market know Sitiveni Rakai can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
Market11 Jan 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Labasa know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad4 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 Labasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market4 Jan 2027
Add another name to the list: Lautoka have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Sailimone Ravonokula. The answer from Labasa has not changed — yet.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Words at Labasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joji Vuakaca 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Labasa has been clear about where Christopher Wasasala stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad4 Jan 2027
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Market4 Jan 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Sekove Naivakananumi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market28 Dec 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 Labasa, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad28 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Labasa
Akeimi Ralulu 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.
Market28 Dec 2026
The name of Jimson Abana keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Labasa say nothing, which says plenty.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
Tempers go at Labasa
Christopher Wasasala 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Akeimi Ralulu has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Labasa 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Epeli Vunibola, and the manager let it.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market7 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Sailose Tawake commits to Labasa for another 3 years.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Labasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joji Vuakaca 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
Steady
Market23 Nov 2026
“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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words at Labasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joji Vuakaca 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Labasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market2 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Labasa can pretend not to have heard.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Labasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Joji Vuakaca 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Labasa know it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Every long career reaches the week the player starts thinking about the last one. He would like it to be at the club that first put him on a pitch, and Labasa now know that too.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Labasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Akeimi Ralulu has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Labasa 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match26 Aug 2026
Labasa bow out of the cup
Suva go through and Labasa go home, 0‑0 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
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 Labasa, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Epeli Vunibola joins from Lautoka in a deal worth $3.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Market31 Aug 2026
Lautoka paid $20.0K and Labasa took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Labasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.63 on the card, and the Labasa support went home talking about one name.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Akeimi Ralulu has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Labasa 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Labasa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market10 Aug 2026
The name of Sailose Tawake has come up in conversations Labasa were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Labasa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ilaisa Vulimainavuso 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
36 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Market10 Aug 2026
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Timoci Naitini has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Labasa.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Labasa, and both men came out saying it was fine.