[Wally]

Sunday 14:30

First game of the season. Nothing to look forward to after our pre-season campaign which resulted in us failing to beat one professional side.

This apparently will be the starting line-up. Tomasson and de Guzman will be playing provided they pass their fitness tests (which is expected)

------------Timmer---------------

--Greene--Landzaat--Bahia---DeCler

------------v Bronckhorst---------

-------Bruins----------Wijnaldum--

-------------DeGuzman-------------

--------Mols---------Tomasson-----

Bench: Darley, Fer, vaseline man, bum, kid 1, kid 2, kid 3

Would personally prefer to see Fer ahead of Bruins as I think the last has lost it a bit.

Very important to see de Guzman back though. A moment of magic from him from a free-kick or well taken corner could prove to be the difference if we're to get a positive result from here.

 

[Wally]

I suspect the bum = Buijs. Vaseline man = Biseswar or Erasmus?

Any chance that Feyenoord will show this match via streaming on the internet??

Teak

Vaseline man = Hofland with his eyebrows and yeah Buijs = the bum p

as for streams: http://www.myp2p.eu/broadcast.php?matchid=17615&part=sports

This probably will be our only hope as the "eredivisie live" channel isn't providing any streams yet

 

[Wally]

Tomasson probably won't be there (left yesterdays training after just 20 minutes) so Mols and Biseswar it'll be lol

 

[Wally]

Just came back, what up Wally, Andor and the neuzen?

doin' fine..just back from Istanbul
definitely a place you should check out if you want some fun

As for the game, I watched it live.

Having seen the pre-season friendlies I was expecting us to be weak but with Verbeek saying that he'd try to play attacking football, I at least was expecting a bit of urgency today. Instead we got to see a Feyenoord sitting back and having just 40% of possession. Actually we just got outplayed. Nothing more need be said.

Ratings:

Timmer - 7 - made a couple of decent saves or it'd have been 4 or 5-1

Greene - 5 - made Darl Douglas look like a world beater. Rightfully subbed at HT
Landzaat - 5 - Great determination shown in the 3rd goal:rollani:
Bahia - 6 - Not bad
de Cler - 5 - Disappointing from a usually good player

Fer and Wijnaldum - 5 - talents but not the guys who'd help us in this state. Gave away possession poorly in some instances
Van Bronckhorst - 6 - Determined performance
De Guzman - 6 - Ok. Silly red card though
Bruins - 5 - looks lost

Mols - 6,5 - one of our best players. Was dangerous at times in the 1st half

Subs:

Biseswar - tries his best but just not good enough
Buijs - a hack as always

oh yes and what's with this stuff from the judoka and de Guzman about the elbow not being intentional? makes us look even more ridiculous than we are with this result

 

[Wally]

DE GUZMAN VIER WEDSTRIJDEN GESCHORST

De aanklager van de KNVB heeft Jonathan de Guzman een schikkingsvoorstel van vier wedstrijden gedaan naar aanleiding van de rode kaart die de Feyenoorder zondag in Almelo ontving. De straf valt zwaar uit, omdat De Guzman nog een aantekening op zijn strafkaart had staan naar aanleiding van een rode kaart die hij in de playoffs van het seizoen 2006-2007 opliep. Omdat van een beroep niet veel verwacht wordt, hebben De Guzman en Feyenoord besloten de straf te accepteren. Feyenoord moet de middenvelder nu missen in de thuisduels tegen FC Volendam en Ajax, het uitduel bij FC Groningen en de KNVB bekerwedstrijd tegen TOP Oss.

Makes de Guzman's and the judoka's quotes from yesterday even more laughable.

There also goes our last hope for de klassieker....