21 Aug 2010: Ajax - Roda JC Kerkrade

[orange goblin]

This is the squad. Bonvecia and Jozefzoon still in, Aissati and Zeegelaar out, Lindgren injured again and Lodeiro still.

Maarten Stekelenburg
Jeroen Verhoeven
Gregory van der Wiel
André Ooijer
Toby Alderweireld
Jan Vertonghen
Vurnon Anita
Urby Emanuelson
Daley Blind
Oleguer
Roly Bonevacia
Demy de Zeeuw
Eyong Enoh
Christian Eriksen
Siem de Jong
Luis Suarez
Mounir El Hamdaoui
Miralem Sulejmani
Florian Jozefzoon

EDIT/UPDATE Aissati could be missing 'cause he seems to be the first new signing of the Georgian owner of Vitesse

[Amol]

Just for kicks, I compared the selection for this game to the selection of a game from the beginning of last season -->

------2009-----------------------2010----------
Maarten Stekelenburg--------Maarten Stekelenburg
Gregory van der Wiel---------Gregory van der Wiel
Toby Alderweireld------------Toby Alderweireld
Jan Vertonghen--------------Jan Vertonghen
Vurnon Anita-----------------Vurnon Anita
Eyong Enoh------------------Eyong Enoh
Demy de Zeeuw--------------Demy de Zeeuw
Siem de Jong-----------------Siem de Jong
Dennis Rommedahl------------Luis Suarez
Luis Suarez------------------Mounir El Hamdaoui
Urby Emanuelson-------------Urby Emanuelson

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Kenneth Vermeer---(Forced)--Jeroen Verhoeven
Thimothée Atouba------------André Ooijer
Bruno Silva-------------------Daley Blind
Rob Wielaert------------------Oleguer
Mitchell Donald----------------Roly Bonevacia
Ismaïl Aissati------------------Christian Eriksen
Miralem Sulejmani--------------Miralem Sulejmani
Dario Cvitanich----------------Florian Jozefzoon


I am extremely happy with the fact that we have a better #9 and the bench has 4 pretty good youth players. Compare that with last year's bench. I definitely see a good progression here.

[Kowalczyk]

@ Amol: Interesting, that... Thanks.

By the way: Roda JC received some financial aid from the city of Kerkrade. In return, it was demanded that Roda JC will call themselves Roda JC Kerkrade from now on. It's a detail, but that's the official club name from now on (same thing happened to RKC, NAC, Sparta and RBC, for example).

K.

[ajaxusa]

SOPcast channel, anyone?

[souras84]

http://satstreaming.blogspot.com/

just this streaming... poor but ok

[aveslacker]

http://satstreaming.blogspot.com/

just this streaming... poor but ok

Is there any way to close the chat on this thing? It's so annoying.

[ajaxusa]

Thanks, that works. I can't read the score. Is that 1-0 or 1-3?

[souras84]

Man!!!! I have no idea!!! And if you go full screen it sux... Patience

[souras84]

A kind of magic by Suarez but it wont go in.... And we should be 3-0 up to be safe

[ajaxusa]

1-0, halftime.

[aveslacker]

I've only seen the last 10 minutes, but we've look pretty good in that timeframe. Nice to see El Hamdaoui on the scoresheet.

[Orange14]

I just tried NVS5 and it won't come up on Sopcast since it now asks for a contribution. Anyone else have that problem?

[Cedric]

You can try this : http://www.vrijblijvend.com/TVU01.html

[ajaxusa]

Nice combination btwn El Hamdaoui and Suarez! 2-0

[aveslacker]

Nice combination btwn El Hamdaoui and Suarez! 2-0

So much for the idea that they can't play together.

[ajaxusa]

This is looking remarkably easy for Ajax... I hope they don't have cause to regret all these easy chances they are squandering. At present, Roda doesn't look capable of making this close.

[aveslacker]

This is looking remarkably easy for Ajax... I hope they don't have cause to regret all these easy chances they are squandering. At present, Roda doesn't look capable of making this close.

Hopefully this will be when we get our defensive groove back.

[ajaxusa]

... and Suarez returns the favor, 3-0.

[ajaxcolombia]

mounir makes it 3-0!!!

[SPL]

very easy win Suarez and El H worked well. I too could not get NVs so tried rojadirecta.com and they had 2 streams one was in Dutch and worked ok . May have to try this in future if NVS doesn't work .

[Venezuelan Ajacied]

The clean sheet makes me happier than the goals, our defence is going to have to be top notch against Dynamo.

3 easy points in the bag, now comes the real busines.

[Rooie]

Suarez showing his daughter to the public:

[Blind3]

Congrats to Luis !! Great pic !!

Excuse me but I can't resist. To wit, I wonder if she flops over as easy as her daddy used to.

[aveslacker]

Nice picture! Nice to see she's wearing an Ajax kit, too.

[jamcocteau]

Suarez showing his daughter to the public:

When i seen Luis taking his daughter out before the game and in an Ajax top this to me was the clearest sign that Suarez will stay with the club at least for this season. I know he has his critics and rightly so as he can be really frustrating but to me Suarez has never shown less than 100% to the cause of the club.

Suarez obviously has a special place in his heart for this club and really people should recognise this more. He was not born in Netherlands and did not come through our youth system but he has shown more loyalty to Ajax than many who have been given their chance this way, those who play one season with the full Ajax team having come through our youth system and bugger off at the first sign off for bigger money without repaying the fans with what we want - the 30th Eredivise title. Their is no doubt that Suarez could head off to pastures new for more money but he hasnt.

I was very sceptical when he was made Captain but to me it was an inspired move by Jol. Over the last year since the appointment he seems to have matured a lot, well he dives a lot less now but its the little touches like signing a years extension to his contract in the last winter break which has impressed me. Our previous captain, another forward, whilst injured with Ajax appeared in his new clubs colours, something I found unforgiveable as a our Captain. That same persons career has not exactly blossomed since and although as an ex-player of ours I do wish him well but as Captain at a club you never ever do things like that, as Captain you should be inspirational to people around you and I am afraid that was something KJH was not.

Their is no doubt Suarez will leave at some stage but I do hope he wins the title with us as I think he would enjoy it as much as we do.

I hope I am not tempting fate before the transfer deadline but I dont think he would be as cynical to do what he did last night and then disapear.

To me Luis Suarez is not only a great player but a decent human being off the pitch, I salute you wee man. Suarez is everything I love about the game of football - annoying, frustrating but with the touch of genius which makes you wonder how he did that. Love it. And as a passionate Scot, his actions for his country Uruguay in WC were something that spoke volumes - might not be legal, people might hate you for what you did but you did what you did for love of your country, i loved it.

PS I enjoyed the game last night, enjoyable Saturday night and good to see a few of the English lads over for the game too.