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  1. Just for the record, PAO won the double after defeating OSFP 3-2 in the league's playoffs. I haven't watched a more exciting game this season than game 5 when Panatha went to gavroi home to beat them by 15 points and win the title.  Just a few weeks ago, everybody was upset about the team being shut out from the Final 4 and how Oly was such a better team.... Well, Oly didn't win anything this season, and PAO won the double. In the 5 games for the championship, PAO was clearly the better team. It lost 2 games because they lost focus not because they were vastly outplayed. A well-deserved title. Back on the throne after 2 years....:cool:

  2. I happened to follow the events in the 1990s regarding Skopje. Mitsotakis was realistic in wanting a name with the word "Slavo"   in it. The region had the name "Macedonia" in Yugoslavia and Greece hadn't objected, so when Yugo broke apart, the Skopjans kept the name. It's been decades since and the issue hasn't been resolved.  It was Samaras who brought down Mitso' gov.

     

  3. Panatha will win its final 2 games. :cool: Well, basically they just need not to finish last place, and they can beat Panionios to do that.

    If only we had Ouzounidis 1 year ago when Strama was given a high budget  and the keys to the club............................:censored:

  4. Berg will leave. He's fed up with the Greek reality and he thinks the team won't do anything spectacular any time soon. Making 5 mil ain't loose change; it's good money and I don't think Berg's value will go up. I also think it's better to get this money now and get a couple needed players, plus pay the salaries, because PAO needs internal peace. Unpaid players is bad for morale.

    I heard that Alafouzos is looking for a new owner to take over the club.

  5. Man, you lost my most brilliant posts ever!:pufff:

    The damage would have been worse if I hadn't disappeared for a month. [crazy busy at work, plus I'm selling my house and buying another one.... that's the plan anyway]

     

    Does the new update include the Stephen Hawking speech software? 

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  6. ^^^^

    I'll repeat, I was young and I got old waiting for this to happen. Back in the early 2000s, we were talking about the Votanikos's stadium about to be built and we wished it'd be ready by 2008 our club's 100th anniversary.....  Well.....

    AEK should have never agreed to demolish their old stadium before getting a new one finished.

  7. If I were advising Trump to score political points, I'd say drop a few bombs here and there, because it polishes the commander-in chief credentials, and many American respect strong presidents. Many Dems came out supporting punishing Assad. This action can be used to show that Trump can oppose Putin (for show of course), and it takes the focus away (even if temporary) from other problems this administration is having.

    As to Trump, he never had a serious understanding of world affairs; he just spoke in great platitudes and generalities, most criticizing Obama and Clinton. He changes his views as he goes. NATO was obsolete until a couple weeks ago, now it is not. Trying to remove dictators was a bad idea, now?... 

    Fareed Z is right by the way.

     

  8. Have you seen this movie before? I know I have..... and it sucks.

    I support various teams in several sports and most of the times they are not doing well. I can deal with that. But, what bothers me to high hell is when my team, like PAO, beats their main opponents but lose the title.  This season PAO got more points against Oly, PAOK, AEK.  Many seasons we'd win handily if the league was of the top 5-6 teams, but of course we didn't, because we drop the most points to lesser teams. Very frustrating.

    ΑΝΑΛΥΤΙΚΑ Η ΒΑΘΜΟΛΟΓΙΑ ΤΩΝ ΝΤΕΡΜΠΙ 2016-2017.  This includes the latest PAOK-PAO (3-0) when we didn't care and had only 2 regular starters on the squad.

     

    Εντός

    Εκτός

    Σύνολο

    Ομάδα Ν Ι Η ΓΚΟΛ Ν Ι Η ΓΚΟΛ Ν Ι Η ΓΚΟΛ Βαθμοί
    Παναθηναϊκός 2 1 0 2-0 1 0 2 3-8 3 1 2 5-8 10
    ΠΑΟΚ 3 0 0 6-0 0 0 3 1-6 3 0 3 7-6 9
    Ολυμπιακός 3 0 0 8-1 0 0 3 0-4 3 0 3 8-5 9
    ΑΕΚ 2 0 1 6-3 0 1 2 0-4 2 1 3 6-7 7
  9. how can you have so many foreigners playing as Greeks? :cool:

    On a side note, I bet Antendocoubo was always welcomed in society growing up as a black kid, and I could imagine if he were to hold the Greek flag at a national parade....  Now, every day, the Greek sports papers have something about  greatness in the NBA...because now he's the Greek kid kicking ass in the US.

  10. ^^^

    Agreed. The budget is going to be smaller for the foreseeable future, unless the club has some Euro success and money comes in. They should be scouting the Greek leagues for players but I'm afraid there aren't many talents being produced as in the past. Even lesser teams get cheap African (or from wherever) players.

    By the way, do you think Ninis still has it? Last time he came back for us he didn't do much. The other 2 are fine.

  11. Two players have made a huge difference: Klonaridis and Kourbelis. I think Berg is on fire because he's not alone up front and others take some pressure off him and Klona has helped a lot. Same with Kourbelis in midfield. Zeca just said that he doesn't have to run like crazy horse everywhere, plus Kourb works well with him.

    I think Berg will be pressured to sign with another bigger euro team this summer, but if PAO ends the season on a good note, he'll stay.

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  12. 10 hours ago, Tzatziki said:

    Do you reckon it might be wise to stock up on these foolishly harmful delights? Or am I jumping the gun?

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    Choose your poison well.... 

    Remember, what doesn't kill you, it makes you stronger!

  13. OK, let's say I wanted to give Trump a chance, but I'm afraid he doesn't really know anything about government, because he never thought about anything in depth.  I thought he was making up stuff as he campaigned, and either he didn't he'd win or if he won he'd think of something. 

    He kept saying that he'd repeal and replace Obamacare on the first day of his term, perhaps the first hour..... Then he recently said, no one knew health care would be so complicated....

    But, I thought he claimed, no one knows the system so well.... so he alone can fix it...

     

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