Marked for Romit Narayan
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad23 Nov 2026
50 days out for Tomasi Tuicakau after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nadroga will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad23 Nov 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“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.
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
57 days out for Tomasi Tuicakau after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nadroga will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad16 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 Nadroga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Bhavneet Singh 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.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Nov 2026
64 days out for Tomasi Tuicakau after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Nadroga will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Romit Narayan 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.
Squad9 Nov 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.
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Uneasy
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Nadroga
Romit Narayan 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Nadroga
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sakeo Taganeca was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Setareki Matai knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Setareki Matai trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Uneasy
Squad28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Nadroga
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bhavneet Singh was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
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.
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Uneasy
Squad21 Sep 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 Nadroga this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 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.
Squad21 Sep 2026
33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 9 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match12 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Nadroga
3‑4 against Nadi, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 30. 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Joel Chand, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.21
A mark of 8.21 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Nadi is saying, and nobody at Nadroga is enjoying the guessing.
Match12 Aug 2026
Joel Chand among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Joel Chand on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Nadroga and Nadi.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Romit Narayan 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.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
$43.0K was the most the club would pay and Labasa were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
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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 $45.6K — a club that wants Aporosa Yada enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Nadroga have done the hard part with Nadi, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
$43.0K on the table at Labasa. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Nadi have kept their man, and Nadroga go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
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
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tuimasi Tuinakauvadra is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Aporosa Tuisese 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. Tito Krishna is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Romit Narayan and Nadroga agree another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Nadroga
Romit Narayan 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Nadroga
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Sakeo Taganeca was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to William Khan, and the manager let it.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Nadroga, another week without a signature from Sakeo Taganeca.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Romit Narayan's contract
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.