Bananas

He got bit by a mozzie.

Got the 3 points away against a tough opponent, but it was a flat performance. After the 2nd goal I don't think we created anything. The only positive in the second half was we didn't give away any chances in the last 20 minutes. We shut down the spaces well. Zivkovic, good, I don't see Paschalakis playing for a while. He made 2 very good saves. Matos, pretty bad, didn't really contribute anything and could've given away a needless penalty. Giannoulis, good, quite impressed with how he's coming along. Last season I thought he was just a fill in but I really think he has a role to play in this squad (sidenote: we need a Giannoulis clone on the right to put some pressure on Matos). Varela, Crespo, solid. Misic, good, lots of hustle. Douglas, so so, not bad but I feel like there's something missing from his game (to be fair he's only 22). Biseswar and El Khaddouri, maybe they were thinking of Mykonos, poor today. Limnios, good, lots of running. Swiderski, good, did his job.

Ok, 10 in a row it is.

Hopefully we don't switch off. Keep the pressure on try for a god damn clean sheet.

What about a bet on when Paschalakis plays again ?

Flat first half. To their credit Asteras apply lots of pressure when we have the ball. Biseswar and El Khaddouri need to come to the ball. They aren't in the game. I can see why we're conceding goals. The opposition get to that danger zone ~10 metres from the box too easily.

Don't understand why Matos does that. Why even risk it.

Anyone taking bets on if we can go 10 games in a row without a clean sheet ?

Well that came kind of against the run of play. Nice finish.

Thanks pash. Not sure what the other stuff was. Now I just gotta get sound and start clicking 100 times to remove the stupid ads on the screen.

Prijogol!! Would him back but doubt it could happen. He would have to accept less money, over less time and no way he could expect to walk into the 11. I don’t think he’d be satisfied with being used on rotation either. But yeah if he agreed to all that, hell yeah I’d like him back.

100,000 ... a man can dream! If nothing else it will be most interesting to see how it goes. It would be interesting to see if they release figures at the end of the season showing subs based on region e.g. x amount in Thessaloniki, Athens, other cities as well as countries overseas. The commercial subs will be interesting too. Initially I thought they probably won’t get many but if you factor in how say a game like PAOK vs Olympiakos how many shops in Athens would get the subscription ? There is the obvious question of how do you police it and of that I’m not sure but if it can be policed then the I don’t see any reason why they couldn’t get a few thousand commercial subs. The part I’m not sure about is the expenses and running costs to be able to guesstimate how profitable (or not) this PAOK TV experiment will be. Any ideas people ? Finally @Emperor @ukworm @Mitsos @almand don’t forget to pay for a sub for the game coming this week, ha ha.

Could Misic be coming good finally ? https://inpaok.com/594974/o-kosmos-xechorizi-misits/

Great win. One for the fans to savor. That 2nd goal, wow, text book counter attack. Great play.

Something is wrong with them, that's for sure. It's not so much the score but the fact that they're regressing instead of improving. Normally I'd say Donis is a certainty to be fired but not sure if Alafouzos wants to pay out his contract and pay for a new manager.

Well that was anticlimatic. The best I can expect now is some innuendo from pash.

Where is that old footage from the 80’s when there was a pitch invasion and you see a fan with a box or something being held over his head. Those were the days.

Michel was hands down the best TD we had. Brought in some great players. He built the core of this team. I think Arnesen might have been just as good but it’s not fair to compare them as they operated under different parameters. Arnesen said he would bring in young players with potential and relatively cheap whereas Michel brought in older experienced players on much higher wages. Either way, I’m hoping by some miracle that Michel comes back as impossible as that seems.

Nice story @ukworm. This is mangia, not the rubbish we see today. /bow

Missing Mauricio and dare I say it Canas and Shakhov in the midfield. Sure I know they had their deficiencies but at least Canas covered ground and Shakhov added some height and could (and did) win headers at set-pieces. Shakhov also had that great knack of timing his runs into the box. For the money we've paid for Esiti and what's his name they haven't exactly set the world on fire. The only thing we seem to have got for the money paid, which is a positive, is decent ages. Normally we sign "old" players whereas they haven't peaked yet. Anyway, let's see what happens. Lots of players in recent seasons started off slow. As for Wernbloom, the only positive thing I can say about him is his transfer hasn't been as bad as Khacheridi.

Does this Meliopoulos kid have a mental issue ? He's contracted to make ~700K over the next 4 years (150K +15% increase per year) and I don't know what his backup plan was if football didn't work out, but I'm quite sure it won't be paying that much.

Regarding Europa League 2, assuming the coefficient points calculations don't change, then I think there is a good chance we would regain the 15th spot. With only 4 teams in Europe, each win/draw would be worth more (as you divide by 4 instead of 5) and I would like to think our teams would generally get more points.

Gotta say this made me laugh. Nice one ukworm.

Nice post Yiankos. I would like to know, if you buy the games can you see them afterwards or is it just live ? A little hard here in the land that does not exist to be waking at 3, 4, 5 am to watch games. Also, wasn't the PAOK TV streaming service falling over constantly last season ? Is it better now ?

I raise your Dutch. Double Dutch!