The Ajax Cape Town Post
Player ratings15 Mar 2027
Nobody could get near Sinclair Armstrong
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match13 Mar 2027
The wait goes on for Ajax Cape Town
7 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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Words exchanged at Ajax Cape Town
Hlompho Dala and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match13 Mar 2027
Mamelodi Sundowns take the points off Ajax Cape Town
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Musa Drammeh falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Teboho Modiba 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.
The dugout15 Mar 2027
Dean Furman answers for it
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
Squad15 Mar 2027
Ajax Cape Town are still strangers to each other
6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Market15 Mar 2027
The shop window has Hlompho Dala in it
Ajax Cape Town have let the market know Hlompho Dala can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.
In brief
- Market Still no ink between Ajax Cape Town and Phila Dlamini
- The dugout Hlompho Dala knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout When it matters, Williams Erasmus plays