From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Nadi
Jimson Abana 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Ratu Saimoni Nabogi again, and this time the name on the line is Suva. Nadi are listening politely and promising nothing.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Jimson Abana 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.
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Uneasy
Market24 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Nadi people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market24 Aug 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.
Squad24 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 Nadi this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
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Uneasy
Match12 Aug 2026
Nadi bow out of the cup
Nadroga go through and Nadi go home, 2‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Market17 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Nadi
Vishant Reddy 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
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rewa have kept their man, and Nadi go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
He is 22 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Apisai Sesewa again, and this time the name on the line is Suva. Nadi are listening politely and promising nothing.
Match12 Aug 2026
Level with 120 minutes on the clock, after an afternoon Nadi had all but put away. Nadroga will call it a point earned; the home dressing room will call it two given away, and both of them are right.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Twelve yards and the whole ground holding its breath, and it did not go in. He will put his name down for the next one, which is the only thing to do.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Ratu Halstead
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Player ratings
Nobody could get near Rocky Junior
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The dugout
The plan did not have a place for Vishant Reddy
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Nadi
Vishant Reddy and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Nasinu have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Jonasa Ravukitiliva. The answer from Nadi has not changed — yet.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
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Steady
Market3 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Tuiba Batiratu and Nadi agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Nadi
Vishant Reddy 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.
Market3 Aug 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market3 Aug 2026
Nobody at Nadi has picked up the phone to Tuiba Batiratu
49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Nadi are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Nadi training over how hard people work
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Market
Apisai Sesewa told to find a new club