Bananas

In my republic, all things are possible.

So what exactly is Savvidis meant to do to stop the -7 points ? Does he have to sell some of these so called shares owned by someone related to him ?

Stuff relegation. Just do what Larisa did in 87 and blockade the entire f--king city.

@pash yep xkcd.

I still don't understand what this PAOK Xanthi thing is actually about. Anyway, it wouldn't be a normal season for us if we weren't deducted points. Long live POK. Assuming the points deduction sticks, does it apply to this season, next season, or every season from now until the heat death of the universe ? I would be amused to hear how they actually arrived at these numbers.

Puts kettle on to boil, checks livescore.com to see the score. F--k 0-1 down already. You serious. Makes coffee. Checks score again. You gotta be kidding me. 0-2. YOU SERIOUS. Has a shower. Gets dressed. Checks score. 2-2. Good lord what is happening. Anyway, good and bad from today. The good :- - The team showed character and didn't fold. If you're gonna go down, go down f--king swinging. - Mihaj seems to have had a decent game. I see no reason why he shouldn't get more game time. - The score although not ideal at least gives us something to work with in the return leg. The bad :- - As pointed out by our Dutch correspondent our set piece defending is quite bad. Cisse could have buried us. Olympiacos didn't have to really work the ball through gaps. All they had to do was put in crosses and it was half a goal. Why we allow them to cross and overlap on the flanks with such ease I have no idea. At least make them work for their goals ffs. - Paschalakis. No idea what's happened to this guy. Right now he's no good for the team. - Biseswar. Not sure why Abel insists on playing him so often. Last season he was never a guaranteed starter. This kept him fresh. I don't know if this was deliberate by Lucescu or not but either way it's obvious Biseswar can't handle playing constantly and gives more when rotated appropriately. This guy is being wasted. - Defending on set pieces. - And finally, defending on set pieces.

Told you we can't lose when you "bless" the team.

Certainly! And with this result it's fair to say the title race is 95% over. Can't see how Olympiakos will drop 7 points and that's assuming we win every game which is unlikely to the extreme. To be fair the team has been fairly meh all year. Not terrible but not anywhere near like last season. The team has suffered all round this season. From GK and defense everyone is down a gear or two. The midfield even though we spent 5+ million is worse. Gimme Shakhov and Canas any day. At least they had some fight in them. Everyone was happy to see Prijovic go but we've never replaced him. No physical presence up front. For now Abel it is. Let's see what he can make of it. Even if we could off load him (extremely unlikely) who can you get now and can you be sure they'll be better. I'm not happy with Abel but I don't want anyone else. Except Lucescu of course. Why we didn't sign Lucescu for 5 years I'll never know. M-a-l-a-k-a yios tou Savvidi. What I hope to see is a general improvement in the team over the play offs and move into the pre-season on something of a high. There are still many question marks over the squad. Add to that the fact we can't spend unless we make a decent sale and things become even tougher. I hope Abel changes things up next season. I don't expect him to change too much for the remainder of this season.

Now that you've said this we can't lose.

Stop being reasonable. It doesn't agree with being a Greek.

All our signings have been duds. Maybe a bit harsh but considering roughly 7.5 million was spent on Augusto, Esiti and Stoch you can't say they've been successful signings. I would've thought 2 out of the 3 minimum would be first team players. We need to do better with our transfers in the summer.

Wernbloom ha ha. What can you say. Technically he's contracted until 2021 so not sure if he'll be leaving.

Unsurprising result. Almost every player in the squad is down one or two levels from last season. I don't want to get rid of Abel because I'm not confident we'll find better but if Lucescu was to come back I'd give Abel a bunch of flowers and show him the door. He seems to lack common sense. Maybe he thinks he's playing a video game.

Just go all in on black.

Black card for you!

You just blew my mind.

His descent has been astonishing.

Why not, if he's better than what we have ?

Yiankos, I saw the incidents. Not only were they penalties, but they were red cards. In fact, if it were up to me I would make a new category, the black card. Especially for PAOK players. One black card equals one year suspension.

I remember a guy in Uni that was from Thessaloniki. We christened him "O voulgaros" of course, ha ha. He would mention this guy "manavis" from time to time, and lo and behold there is an article on him. Anyone heard of "manavis" by any chance ? https://inpaok.com/633586/manavis-ne-tha-ertho-touba/

For RB we have Matos, Rodrigo and even Limnios who would actually do a capable job. On the left you can even play Matos who used to play that position often when he was Russia.

Not allowing owners and other club officials anywhere near referees should be rule number 1 of any "reforms". I'm holding my breath in 3 ..2 .. 1.

Strong performance. Could have scored quite a few more had the finishing been a bit more clinical. Paschalakis dropping the ball and looking around in the wrong direction was quite funny, actually made me laugh. Lamprou getting a little greedy. Overall, encouraging. Bad news for pash, another solid performance by Vieirinha at RB. You do realise he played that position in Germany for 4 years. One day you will come around to my way of thinking young one.

Lamprou seems to have the knack of finding space. He’s had limited minutes and yet has had over a dozen very good goal scoring opportunities. I hereby dub thee our Inzaghi.

Borbokis, great player!