The Roda Post
Match5 Dec 2026
The wait goes on for Roda
11 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market7 Dec 2026
Josh Nisbet hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Roda can pretend not to have heard.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Joeri Heerkens keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Roda may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Boardroom7 Dec 2026
An order from above at Roda: somebody has to go
Balance sheets do not care about form or about who the manager was planning to build around. The board have decided a sale is required, and the only question left is which name ends up carrying it.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Dario Van Den Buijs in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Roda this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Dec 2026
The goals have deserted Roda
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Roda can tell you which week it ends in.
Match5 Dec 2026
A bad afternoon for Roda against Groningen
0‑1 to Groningen, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Words at Roda training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Josh Nisbet is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad7 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Mats Hummels
“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
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Anthony van den Hurk
- Market Roda and Sander Sybrandy are talking past each other