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These play-offs suck if you want to become champion as the POK and O Aris like to screw us. But if you are second and the others fight eachother to reach European football it is nice to see the slaughter. After losing last week and not playing this week we still managed to get closer to another year in Europe in 2022/2023. Pana drew at Giannina, AEK lost at home against O Aris. We only need 8 points to secure the third spot that will earn that ECL Q2!

This really sucks, but I have no remedy for you. Maybe in 30 years or so you will tell this to your beloved ones as an anecdote if you think back of the magical year 2022 when PAOK lifted the inaugural ECL-trophy!

Never regained his old style after his injury. It is telling that he wasn't able to get a lot of starting time since returning, even with a comparatively weak set of wingers to compete against. Let's see how this plays out I guess.

Milik is out for tomorrow's league game. He'll probably play on Thursday, but I doubt if he is 100% fit.

Counting down the days for the match of the year! Season ticket holders get in for free & the remainder of tickets go on sale on Monday at 9am With regards to milik, i reckon hell play... one report says hes out the other says hes in. Anyone have any solid info?

That's how it happens. Scotsman will confirm.

Agreed. This is gonna be a wild game. A friend of mine decided to watch the last one (he knows about PAOK) and he went from not giving a damn to salivating at the thought of the return leg. Slowly I convert the xenoi -edit- he knows *nothing* about PAOK, I meant to say

I really do believe that we will beat them. We can do it.

Got back home a couple of hours ago. I know that we were all looking forward to this away day. I am devastated to say my game day experience wasn't great. First of all the local council in Marseille along with the police couldn't organise a piss up in brewery. We wanted to do the hour-long walk to the stadium with them either side of us. They prevented this from happening due to OM hooligans waiting for us with stones and steel bars. While I think this was a fair decision, it seems they did not have busses organised for us in advance. We waited around 90 minutes for the busses to turn up then sat/stood for another 90 minutes on the bus without going anywhere. It was like a sauna and getting hard to breathe so we then lost more time when we forced the doors open to get some air. To be fair to the police they did themselves say that the organisation was awful. I would have expected a much more coordinated plan. We were all tired and frustrated by the time we arrived at the stadium. Once we finally got into the stadium it was like being in a war zone. The OM ultras are divided in French and Arab, with the latter having their κερκίδα next to the away supporters. The away stand has a lower and upper part. Our group was in the lower part. We were on the receiving end of D-size batteries, coins, flares, nuts and bolts - things that will certainly do a lot of damage if they hit you. Some our group were almost hit a couple of times. The managed to hit of us with a flare but thankfully it hit his cap and grazed his face. When this happened the arabs' reaction reminded me of the Sand People from Star Wars. Go to 1:18 of this video to see what I mean. They probably have the same IQ level too. They were then trying to break through the police line to get to us, which they did at one point and then had it out with some of our guys who jumped the gate to get to them. The way they just jumped into Nomansland without any backup could only mean that they were possessed with rage. I don't know any psychologically stable person who would do that. The entire game consisted of trying to watch our play, trying to sing in sync with the upper stand and looking over in the arabs' direction to check if they were throwing anything. Around the 40th minute I did something that I have never done before which was leave while the game was still going to go get water. I have only ever done this during half time. It seemed anyone who was queuing up was also ordering for another 10 people. I say queue but we all know cattle are more orderly than Greek people. While there I missed Payet's wonder goal, which would have probably been the best goal that I had ever seen live. It gets much worse though. Another clown was trying to speak French instead of just ordering in English and kept adding things to his order, which confused the canteen staff completely. This whole ordeal took 15 minutes, which then meant that ended up missing our goal. At that point I just left and went back to the stand absolutely devastated. I have never missed a PAOK goal and it especially hurts because it was a nice goal against an opponent like OM. This was the first and last time that I leave the game while it is still ongoing. On a more positive note, I could not have asked for better company. Scotsman is a great away day partner. Not only did I also meet some new people but I also saw PAOKia who I hadn't seen for 6+ years. We also had a really nice walk around town and lunch in the sun on Friday with some people who were meeting for the first time. I realised that is the beautiful thing about supporting a club - it is so easy to become friends with people who you have never even met before. Joints and drinks are shared without any hesitation. Stories of other away days are told, while many laughs are also had. I can definitely say that the social side of this away trip was absolutely fantastic. I also realised that I have a subconscious 'addiction' to the sound of the drum. While waiting for the busses to come we were singing some songs and one of our guys started hitting the drum. Anything I was doing or any thoughts I had became instantly irrelevant while the singing became louder along with jumping like a maniac. Looking ahead, I think we can beat them. The first twenty minutes of the second half (although I should say 15 minutes as I missed the first 5) were enough to convince me that we can match them. Their supporters have also cancelled their trip to Thessaloniki so it will probably be only PAOK fans. We must sell out the stadium and help the team by singing as loud of possible. I'm not going to lie - I am still pretty down about missing our goal so if anybody has any ideas to help get over it then please feel free to share. I know there are more serious things in life but this is still disappointing. Sorry for the long post.

Good for Giannoulis. Tzolis only getting only 10mins with Norwich is unbelievable those stupid eglesi managers are idiots.

My immediate reaction is to think this is another scam that will be used to keep the big teams big. Or not apply to them at all.

Looks like there will be changes regarding FFP rules. The change being clubs can only spend 70% of their incomes (presumably the 70% being on transfers and wages). Let's see what happens. Not sure how this would affect us as I find the financial side of PAOK a bit of a mystery.

That is why the play offs only work in joke leagues.