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:) Kokoretsi is ready

Kali Anastasi paidia! I got my arni and kontosouli all ready for tomorrow.

Happy Easter everyone!!!

there's no such thing as free money, hence the reason we're in so much 'debt' are you suggesting without EU help we wouldn't have bridges and highways? the EU has never had its accounts signed off by auditors, its as bent and corrupt as the pro EU leaders we've had leading greece over the last few decades. its driven up prices in eastern europe and flooded western europe with cheap labour driving down wages. no one said anything about being a superpower but that doesn't mean we can't come out of the EU and decide who we choose to trade with, we cannot create jobs you say but at present the troika demand we CUT jobs and services under their austerity measures. and as irlandos has so eloquently put it, its EU laws/rules etc that have made countries dependent on one another, they don't want self sufficiency just dependance, so they can go on dictating how you run your own country. the irish the portuguese the italians the spanish and cypriots are the most obvious examples of people continually protesting against the EU. the leadership in hungary and czech republic have also been fairly outspoken against the EUs stance on the russia ukraine conflict. i'm not sure anyone's benefited from the EU or from the US. look at how most of the world feel about the US. no, they are blaming the banking racket not the capitalists, in a capitalist system failed businesses(banks) do not get bailed out using public funds, which puts governments in debt who in turn look to fleece working people through higher taxes and austerity in order to pay back what has become a national debt. interesting, how many ukranians voted for their current leader?? the west didn't like the democratically elected leader of ukraine so we imposed our own man. meddling in the affairs of yet another country like the US have done all over latin america. look how that's turned out high inflation in ukraine a currency thats lost a lot of its value and poreshenko going cap in hand for loans. yet we want to question the authenticity of the crimean vote because it didn't go our way.

Let's not be too harsh on all these younger Greek talents that were overhyped earlier on to just disappear into football oblivion. Every Country struggles with the same issues. If England u-21 youngsters had continued to develop the way the media talks about them or some of the transfer fees that were paid for them early on in their careers they would win every single World Cup . Kotsianikoulis was the first Greek Messi, right ? Ninis was once called potentially to be as good as Fabregas, Modric , Hazard etc as long as there was some other highly rated young player around Europe with similar skin tone, height and haircut that played in midfield then Ninis was him. As for Vellios that was mentioned above. Here we have a young, strong kid who can play with his back to defenders , good in the air etc. showed tons of promise at Iraklis and then onto Everton but has lost his way a bit. Not so sure if he really isn't that good or doesn't have the proper work ethic but more that he been unlucky placed on teams that either didn't hove him a good run in the first team or had internal coaching issues. Talent will always rise and find its way at some point. Manolas is the very best Greek footballer at the moment. 3 years ago he was also an unproven Greek youngster

Kokoretsi is awesome, solid move. My grandparents let me know just yesterday that they've got a 35 pound lamb ready to go on the souvla. And melamatina is available in some places I've checked around here, but not nearly as uniquitous as kourtaki. I usually keep a bottle handy for when I'm watching PAOK, obvs.

I liked what I saw from Kone in the lead-up to the World Cup and in Brazil; he had that attacking spark and was dangerous in the opponent's third; something which was sorely lacking for the NT. He was also having a solid season in Serie A. However, he's inconsistent and this year we've seen a dip in his form without question. Discipline is also still an issue with this player (not the only one on the NT). I'd still have him in my 11 though, given that I've yet to see another good "8" emerge. As for Christodoulopoulos, I've always thought he lacked technique and his decision-making is questionable (along with many of our attackers); not to mention his penchant for constantly losing possession... I'm definitely not as high on this player but credit to him: he's willing to run at defenders and he does have a certain pace and athleticism which can be helpful when we're on the counter. I'd be willing to try him in the center but ideally we'll have a better player emerge here soon. I'm curious to see if Markarian will continue with KPaps as the DM. If he accepts the role and grows into it and if he improves his distribution, it could be massive for the NT. Here's an 11 I'd like to see tried in the next friendly (preferably before the Faroe Islands match): ------------------------------------------------------------------------------Karnezis----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Torosidis----------------------------------------------Papastathopoulos----------------------Manolas------------------------------------------------------Stafylidis -----------------------------------------------------------------KPaps-----------------------Taxi----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------Fetfa-------------------------------------------Lazaros-------------------------------------------------------Kone---------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------Take your pick------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Admittedly, got a little lazy with the striker position; honestly I think it's an open competition at this point: Mitroglou, Athanasiadis, Aravidis, Samaras?? Call me crazy, but I wouldn't mind seeing what Samaras could do up top with a decent supporting cast; I know his form has been poor and he plays at a low level but for some reason I still think he may have something to offer this side yet.. besides shampoo tips...

Bingo. I'm a fan of Varoufakis, generally. But I never believed he'd be able to smash his way through the agreements and get a vastly different deal for Greece. What I expect, and hope for, are the aforementioned incremental changes to actually begin with this government. Tsipras needs to actually bring about the logical changes that previous governments agreed to but never bothered implementing - opening up industries to real competition, actually prosecuting tax cheats, and challenging the nepotism that truly forms the social and political backbone of the country. As far as Varoufakis - cutting the required primary surplus (I believe he was gunning for 1-1.5%?) would be a big step in the right direction. His push for repayments being tied to economic growth is attractive, but since we've already established that Greece cannot be relied upon to publish real numbers, the country and government needs to accept that large teams of auditors and accountants will have to set up semi-permanent shop in Greece.

'annexed' something that was historically theirs without a shot being fired, when the west bombed serbia for 78 days(hitting the chinese embassy, schools and hospitals in the process) in order to secure an independent kosovo no one in the west mentioned the term 'annexed' by the way its the germans and the EU that have mooted the idea of taking a greek island as debt repayment. and what have the EU done for greece ? are they looking out for greece ?? or demanding austerity, impoverishing our people and dictating when people should retire and what services should be cut and forcing us to charge our own people obscene property taxes in order to pay a debt that the those being asked to pay(the people) did not benefit from the loans. and what do other EU citizens think of us ?? they think of greeks as lazy tax dodging work shy and incompetent because thats the narrative they've been fed by the western media.

I think you've hit the nail on the head there Irlandos. You should have seen how pro-Yank some of the guys became on GS whenever anyone brought up Russia.

we need to be careful and understand where the likes of Kolovos, Kaltsas, Giannotas are playing their club football.. we see snap shots of these guys against mediocre opposition...Kone and Lazaros are playing at the highest level and are in their prime age wise.