The De Graafschap Post
Match17 Oct 2026
No end in sight to De Graafschap's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at De Graafschap has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tempers go at De Graafschap
Ibrahim El Kadiri was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match17 Oct 2026
Donny Warmerdam’s goal not enough for De Graafschap
Donny Warmerdam scored, and precious little else went right: 3‑4 to PSV, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Dave Bulthuis out for 33 days
The medical room confirms 33 days on the sidelines for Dave Bulthuis, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
One of those days for Donny Warmerdam
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.62, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad19 Oct 2026
De Graafschap count the cost of losing Silvan Bröker
38 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Jevon Simons
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Milan Smits gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Nolan Martens never got going
5.08 on the card. Some afternoons a footballer looks like a man who has only just been introduced to the game, and this was one of them.
In brief
- Player ratings Off the pace: Jason Meerstadt
- Market De Graafschap put Esdras up for sale
- The terraces The press have found their man in Donny Warmerdam