Win and be welcomed home as heroes; lose and be considered nothing more than hard triers.

Those are the labels the Bermuda national team are fully aware of heading into today's ICC Trophy Tournament third-place play-off, and they are determined to be stuck with the former.

Bermuda last night named the same team that started the tournament three weeks ago, which means that top batsman Clay Smith survived censure for his actions in the semi-final loss to Kenya on Tuesday.

It was never strongly felt here that Smith would miss the semifinal after showing his displeasure with Namibian umpire Louis Van Reenen's lbw decision, but the fact that it was mentioned in the report meant that there was an outside chance.

Bermuda did not get off scot free, however, as the chairman of the disciplinary committee wrote to management advising that the players be kept in line in future matches.

Manager Clarence Tucker let this be known in last night's meeting and stressed that players accept whatever umpire's decision are made today and move on.

For Smith that is extra crucial as umpire Van Reenen has been assigned for the match.

As far as the ICC committee is concerned Bermuda have already upheld their tournament seeding of fourth while top-seeded Holland are generally looked upon as over-rated.

Both are in the midst of two-match losing streaks but can ill-afford a slip-up today at Simba Union where a large pro-Bermuda crowd is expected.

In making two changes from Tuesday, Arnold Manders replaces Jeff Richardson in a surprise move seeing as Bermuda's chief weakness in the most recent matches has been fielding.

The other change comes in the opening bowling attack with Terry Burgess in for Kenny Phillip.

Manders' inclusion gives the team more options in the batting department as the idea of him opening the innings with skipper Albert Steede has been thrown around.

The rationale behind that is that Holland will open the bowling with spin at one end and some members in the team feel that Dexter Smith, the tournament's third leading run-getter, would be lesser equipped to keep the score ticking.

A final decision is likely to be made this morning.

Meantime, skipper Steede is hoping that the real Bermuda team will step forward, the team that went through the first six matches unbeaten with fielding a strong suit.

"Obviously, this is the most important match of this tournament,'' he said.

"This is going to see whether the four years of preparation has been justified.

"Everyone is really hyped and mentally and physically prepared. It's basically a do-or-die thing, which everyone understand.'' Bermuda made a remarkable start with the ball led by Anthony Edwards, whose haul of 16 wickets in the tournament is the third highest. He and Burgess provided a good new ball tandem with the pressure on opposing batsmen to attack Noel Gibbons, Clevie Wade and Bruce Perinchief after slow starts.

But their decline was indirectly brought on by the Bermuda batsmen amassing 328 for nine against United Arab Emirates in their quarter-final group match which prompted the team dubbed `Pakistan B' (because of the number of Pakistanis in their team) to launch an all-out attack.

All the bowlers went dearly and the fielding hit rock bottom with the semifinal against Kenya producing almost carbon-copy results.

Steede is well aware that the buck must stop today and may be helped by the fact that Holland's batting depth cannot compare with that of the previous two opponents.

"The harmony and unity will be even more important tomorrow especially on the field where things get a little tense at times,'' said Steede. "As long as we keep our heads, keep focused on what we have to do and do not get over-excited, we should do fine.'' "We've done a lot of homework on Holland so we know what to expect tomorrow.

The only thing I don't know what to expect from my team is which team is going to arrive.

"Hopefully all of our energy will be put toward our cricket. I am very confident with the team we have and very confident we will do well tomorrow.'' ARNOLD MANDERS -- Returns to the Bermuda team and may be asked to open the batting today against Holland.