Next league game, after tomorrow's cup game against Kozakken Boys: VVV-Venlo at home.

Should normally be the start of a nice little string of wins, this one...

K.

Still unavailable : Jaap Stam, Thomas Vermaelen, Edgar Davids, Leonardo, Kennedy Bakircioglu, Jurgen Colin, Laurent Delorge, Nicolae Mitea and Edgar Manucharyan.

So...

------------------------------ Stekelenburg --------------------------------------

-- Ogararu ------------ Heitinga ------ Van der Wiel ------------ Emanuelson

------- Gabri ----------------- Maduro --------------- Vertonghen --------------

---Rommedahl ------------ Huntelaar ----------------- Suárez -----------------


And loads of young kids on the bench...

K.

Hope we will not embarass ourselves and we will clinch a 3-0
win, in soveirgn style. It will be an enormous blunder if we lose points here
and we the crisis that was threatening to loom will come, and our eredivisie
campaign will also start going downhill and - it will be a failed season - a complete failiure - we cant afford it - plain simple.

This could be a very good weekend for us: NAC Breda vs PSV and Feyenoord vs Heerenveen (both on Saturday evening).

Heerenveen have been disappointing so far, and the game is in Rotterdam, but they won't roll over and it looks like they will play Alves...

NAC Breda away; that's a tough one, plain simple. They're doing quite well. They've been hard to beat in recent weeks and they can be good at home.

I have a feeling that Feyenoord or PSV will drop points tomorrow evening, which would enable us to do good business on Sunday.

K.

Hopefully your feeling is right about that, because I am not at all impressed by Heerenveen and NAC. Heerenveen will definately concede some goals and NAC is not that solid either. No, in my opinion PSV and Feyenoord will grab some easy three points tomorrow.

Thijs just posted in the Dutch Zone that Colin, Delorge and (no shit) Manucharyan have been declared fit.

K.

I hope Manucharyan resurrects his career playing in the #10 hole. Hmm - just realized that he has to be injury free do be able to do that.

The amount of injured players....Its gonna be a long season if this continues. By the way, I don't think having Colin available is much of a boost, now Ten Cate will be tempted to put him in the starting line-up. Much rather se Van der Wiel getting the nodge any time.

By the way, what about Schilder??? is he available??

What Thijs posted was, apparently, bollocks.

According to Ajax Netwerk we'll be without the following ten players: Jaap Stam, Thomas Vermaelen, Edgar Davids, Leonardo, Kennedy Bakircioglü, Jurgen Colin, Laurent Delorge, Nicolae Mitea and Edgar Manucharyan.

K.

He was on the bench wednesday so I guess he still is.

As for Ajax Netwerk, I don't trust them on this case as I think they just took the list of injured players that popped up everywhere on the web yesterday. Colin seemed to be fit on Ajax.nl for example.

Hope Van der Wiel plays he looks good. How long is Kennedy out for??There was something about an op this week !!

From Sportinglife:

Edgar Davids (broken leg), Leonardo (knee), Nicolae Mitea (ankle), Kennedy Bakircioglu (stomach), Jaap Stam (knee) and and Thomas Vermaelen (ankle) are all out for Ajax.

1-0 down already!

and guess who was at fault for conceding the throw by the corner flag in the first place!

What is Colin doing someone please!!??

Yeesh...

Sorry to do it to you guys again, but has anyone got a stream working? The SopCast Voetbal-streaming one isn't working properly for me...

1-1 Luque!!!!

Sopcast just dropped the stream -- I dunno from the looks of things so far, maybe it is a blessing in disguise...

Great - it must have happened right after the feed got dropped -- anyway, things are back to the way they should be.

2-1 Luque on 18 minutes. Good shot but straight at their keeper who had a Steks moment....(joke lol)

3-1 Maduro

wtf is going on there? 2-1, they scored?

luque scored two, but then got replaced (injury?)

sopcast is back up -- but the guy doing the streaming has switched to a different game -- very frustrating!

It's half time and 4-1 now.

The game is a little like a practise game though tbh - Ajax possession is well over 60%.

I have a new favourite other Eredivisie kit though after Willem II away from last year - I like the VVV kit - not seen Yellow and Silver before and it works really well....

No one's got a working stream?

At least the women's WC final is quite entertaining...