So glad that it's a hamstring injury and not knee ligaments as many had feared. Wishing him a speedy recovery.

Don ,t know of it is posted anytime earlier, but on youtube excellent ajax games from the 80's in short. tears in my eyes for cruijff , rijkaard, olsen ,schrijvers etc Must see. Television REWIND https://youtu.be/_rZb1hxzR-0?si=ncjd8jNBfnRWSNG3 Have subscribed and will watch later. Thanks for posti...

Taylor might be good enough next year for a mid-table team, but 100% not as a defensive MF. He's terrible at defending.

Exactly. He wasn't positioned correctly and then got beaten while he was trying to block the winger. Then of course Taylor who was covering could've/should've stepped up. I'm just glad Martha didn't make a rash tackle from behind after he was beaten. I was half expecting a sliding tackle resulting i...

I agree that Rensch is better on the ball than Medic, but he's non-existent with with heading ability. He's a total liability on corners.

Phew. Such a huge relief. So glad we got the 2nd goal. I was worried we'd let one in on a mistake and that turned out to be true. Can't quite blame Martha for the poor defending on that one. He's only become a LB about 4 months ago.

And also one more thing - why the heck is Rensch playing RCB and not Medic? I know Medic isn't a great defender either, but I think he's still better than Rensch at that position.

Ramaj clearly made a stupid play and maybe his teammates did yell loud enough that the ball was headed out. It looks like he misjudged the ball and at a minimum should have pushed the ball over the end line. I think he was trying to keep the ball in, so that he could get it out to our players quick...

Van't Schip seems to be protecting Martha from European games. Maybe trying to keep his game load low. I have no idea as Martha wouldn't have done any worse than Sosa yesterday.

I do agree that both penalties were wrong/extremely soft.

Some bad decisions which went against us. We did at times did seem to know how to play. This is at least the level which this group should be playing at and not how they started the season. Ramaj's blunder was not needed at the end, but I didn't think he needed to take a swipe at that player. Rensch...

Saw the entire game on my phone while on vacation. Shambles of a first half. We were leading 2-1 into injury time and decided to go get a 3rd. Brobbey had 2 open runners on his right at the half way line, but couldn't make a simple pass. The counter from that lead to the penalty which also was so un...

I'm with SPL on this one - Vos, Taylor and Hlynsson in MF

Hopefully the Jong also starts getting some wins under their belt. Glad to see that we're off the bottom in both the Eredivisie and the Eerste Divisie.

Would actually start with Vos and maybe bring in Sosa earlier if Martha is tiring. At least against 'not great' opposition, Martha actually seemed like he was focused on defending. Also bring on Forbs as a sub, depending on the situation. There's something to be said about not making wholesale chang...

What a wonderful change the past couple weeks have been. The joy is back in our football. Things to improve? Absolutely. But headed in the right direction by leaps and bounds - 100%!!! Based on the teams we have to face before the winter break, we should be somewhere between 5th and 7th. Such a far ...

We got a win!!! We dared to play football again and actually managed to score a couple goals! Lots of things can be improved, but lets enjoy this win. I don't care if it was against Volendam. Such a huge difference from just 10 days ago from that piss poor game against Utrecht. Steijn was horrible a...

John Van't Schip's first game in charge.

We have Martha starting at LB. I thought he was a winger. SPL - what are your thoughts about this?

Best thing I've read today. Brings tears to my eyes - https://twitter.com/AllAboutAjax/status/1718995547418193921 John Van't Schip when asked "Why have you decided to accept this monstrous challenge?" Van ‘t Schip: “Ajax is my club. Before my wife passed away, me and her discussed this a lot. It was...

Bergwijn has interest from S Arabia for a winter transfer .Hope he goes ,a terrible signing and has done nothing for his big salary. I wonder how he'll feel getting paid mega-bucks, yet playing in front of smaller crowds than Ajax2? I've heard that Saudi Arabian crowds are smaller than the 8th leve...

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The commentator said yesterday “maybe he’s homesick”, which is an original excuse for passing the ball to the wrong team.

Hahaha. He shows glimpses of reading the game and then simple makes mistakes which a high-level defender should not be making.

Yeah cannot imagine what Van't Schip is going through. He has all my support as we navigate through this year. Very happy with what Maduro and Vos were able to do in just a week. Glad we've kept Maduro on as an assistant. I think Ajax needs to figure out how to keep Vos closely aligned to the first ...

With the way we played the first half, we should be able to put away most sides from the bottom half of the table. We do need to put the ball into the net and not waste so much chances. Also, as the confidence goess up slowly, players will stop making some mistakes. Low confidence will cause more mi...

Please send Bergwijn off packing. I still don't know what he's good at.

Having said that I didn't care about the score today, I'm living the nightmare a little bit just now. Down 5-2 now.

Gave up 2 in the 2nd half.

Down 3-2 now.