The De Graafschap Post
Match14 Aug 2027
41 matches without a win for De Graafschap
The run now stands at 41, and the questions being asked around De Graafschap are no longer polite ones.
The terraces16 Aug 2027
Anger at De Graafschap spills outside the ground
It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Calvin Raatsie
26 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. De Graafschap lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Ibrahim El Kadiri runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Ties Wieggers signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ties Wieggers commits to De Graafschap for another 3 years.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Isaac Compaore at De Graafschap
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Isaac Compaore is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Anton Gaaei 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 De Graafschap this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at De Graafschap
7 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Match14 Aug 2027
The goals have deserted De Graafschap
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at De Graafschap can tell you which week it ends in.
In brief
- Market Memphis Van Dijk steps up from the De Graafschap academy
- Market Kenneth Bergwijn steps up from the De Graafschap academy
- Market De Graafschap promote Marco De Vrij from within