Bananas

If Savvidis had half a brain he would have kept Tudor until the end of the season and then let him go. It would be a calculated risk that in keeping Tudor you wouldn't miss out on the play-offs, but realistically the odds of making the playoffs are better than not making them. The squad is ... good enough ... to at least do that I would think. Now, all of the above is based on the assumption that Savvidis will try and sign a "class" manager. If his intention is to keep Ivic or just get a whatever manager then his decision is fine. But if his intention is to attempt to sign a class manager then he has grossly miscalculated and it will fail. It will fail because the prospective manager will look at the record of the previous 4 seasons and think, f**k that, this club has no stability. So once again Savvidis will have to sign whoever he can. If he somehow finds a manager with pedigree, it will be someone like Huub who has the name but doesn't really "have it" anymore which in reality means he's not really signing a class manager but a has been. Let's see if Savvidis can make it 5 out 5 next season. Bravo idiot.

Maybe I'm delusional, but I still think there is a decent core in the team to work with. Do we deserve to be 5th ? Yes we do. We concede more goals than most teams, we concede late goals often and the defense is still shaky. But I haven't seen any team other than OLY clearly outplay us. Sometimes we struggle when the opposition parks the bus but that goes for all teams. It's been said time and again, a CB of real quality and a DM/CM to boss the middle with physical presence, and all of a sudden the prezonia will be kissing Savvidis's feet.

I won't be posting for a while. I've got a "thlasi" on my ass and will be out for 4 weeks.

This idea would have Austrian economists turning in their graves, but if the conditions are suitable it can work. The biggest impediment would be the 1% who would see their share so to speak ... watered down. Their would be outcries of Germanic style hyperinflation. But I don't see any reason why in theory it couldn't work, you just need to be careful how you implement it. In fact, I think it's the only way you could rebalance the world economy and spur growth. Right now there is a lot of idle productive capacity that isn't being used because "the economy is weak" which is really just fancy talk for "people are broke". Give those people a "living wage" and you absolutely get the economy moving. But again, "helicopter" money is only taken seriously when it's given to big banks who do nothing with it because" the economy is weak" and it just sits there not getting into circulation. Apparently, this is sober and responsible economics. Go figure.

This is what happens when the EU has you by the balls. Any time they want Greece to do anything, they will threaten to sink the economy. They even gave us a taste of what will happen when they stopped supplying money to Greek banks just before the infamous OXI vote. The day they did that was the day that Greece should have left the EU, regardless of the short to medium term economic consequences. But when push came to shove, the majority of people didn't have the stomach for it. Be it the political class, rich, poor and everyone in between. They wanted the benefits of EU membership without having to reorganise their economy. If Tsipras (not that it would ever have happened anyway) or anyone else had threatened and actually went through with Grexit he probably would have been assassinated. This situation where the majority of people were saying OXI to the austerity but NAI to EU membership is f**king ridiculous. When I first saw that I wasn't sure I was seeing it correctly, but there it was. National schizophrenia. Greece wants to have its cake and eat it too, the f**ing end.

You can call Tudor a mistake but it's all easy in hindsight. Arnesen had to find a manager in a short amount of time because we had EL qualifiers coming up and the team was on its knees in terms of confidence. If we want results, we shouldn't be playing kids. Pelkas, Mystakidis, Antonis, Kitsiou, Charisis even Chatziisaias are all too inexperienced. They will make mistakes and that's just the way it is. If we can't cope with the learning curve, then give them all the boot.

Not sure what your expectation were. We got a bunch of young and unknown players. The only player I'm disappointed with is Leovac who at 27 years of age and at 1.3M Euros you expect him to be a fairly complete player who would at the very least lock down the LB position. Add to that a manager who was fairly inexperienced as well. If you want more, we need to spend more, a whole lot more.

Really needed 3 points considering we'll probably get -6 for the vlakies in Toumba. Anyhow, and that's game.

F**k me, Greek tragedy.

It seems to be a common theme that we struggle to score but concede goals so easily. Who is this Kakko kid ?

Ha ha the corner count.

Truly they are a terrible team. Considering their fan base they deserve a lot better than the crap McClaren dishes up but then again they haven't been competitive since Asprilla played.

Isn't it a bit too early in the morning for this ?

To be fair we have Antonis (22) Pelkas (22) and Mystakidis (21) up front. All young so I expect as much. I'd rather them than Klaus and Berbatov.

Half time 0 : 1

They're criticising your boy pash ...

That's the thing. If you're resigned to the fact that Kace will be sold, you would want to keep him reasonably match fit so that you can maximise his sale price. Not necessarily play him all the time, but play him at least semi regularly. Who will want to buy him in the summer when he hasn't been playing first team football for 9 or so months ? Maybe he'll have a good Euro 2016 ...

Evale ena o psilos.

Thanks for the link pash. Maybe in the year 2050 we might get to watch games without having to jump through burning hoops. Boston, no idea why they aren't playing Kace. It's getting a bit silly now.

Radio link at least ?

I've been mistreated, I've been abused. . . Since Marinakis left me, I've been losing my mind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsO26Pgm6qI

Telekinesis - Coast of Carolina

James - Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)

Mangia klania. The reaction is pure Greek village mentality. Do we really expect Savvidis or anyone to follow through ? The usual will happen. Points deductions, fines, game bans. Maybe they'll deduct points from our play-offs initial value like previously. I did enjoy that particular knife in the back.

Now that would be some spectacle. Far superior to not sending your team. And the reason is ....... it would be on the media all around the world.