Bananas

We got LOTS of it down under. And according to all the advertisements (or is it propaganda) from the coal companies, yeah man, it's pretty clean. Australia, good at digging stuff out of the ground, not much else.

You’d think Leovac’s stance would be fair ground for termination of his contract. I mean he can play, he’s not injured, but just doesn’t feel like it! Seriously!

What’s this ? Do you mean he wants to be released and paid for the whole season ?

Kourbelis would be a great signing. He’s a solid number 6 and can play as a CB also. He’s also a good age at 24 and can be a leader on the pitch. At the end of the day if he doesn’t want to play for us, what can you do. All the club can do is make him an offer. After that it’s up to him. Same as Moledo. He never really wanted to play for us.

Agree about Canas. He was poor, almost invisible. It's quite surprising considering he was one of our most reliable players last season. His was one of the first names I would pen in a starting 11 last season. This makes the replacement for Cimirot all the more important. Because we have only Mauricio as a reliable midfielder. We had Cimirot also but we sold him, go figure. Neither Canas nor Shakhov are in stellar form and can be relied on to play a solid 90 minutes. They may perform but do we really want to roll the dice ? Add to that the fact the last season AEK really gave us trouble in the midfield because they play 3 in the middle and they stormed all over us in Athens. Ivic seeing this, chose to play 3 in the middle in the Cup Final with no number 10 (Biseswar was on the wing). So if we have to play 3 right now we have Mauricio, Canas and Shakhov and no one on the bench. Yeah, go sell Cimirot for 2.5 million during the winter break. It's not like we need him. It's not like we might possibly challenge for the title. Xaivania.

As long as he plays like that we are covered while Pelkas is injured. As for El Kaddouri, I don't even know where he fits into the team. The club is talking about loaning Mystakidis to PAO but I'd rather have Mystakidis on the bench any day of the week over how El Kaddouri is playing now.

El Kaddouri has been so poor. Massive disappointment. I expected MUCH more from a player that had played in Serie A for years. One bright spot today was Biseswar's play in the 2nd half. He was doing that thing where he drops deep to get the ball and just starts laying it off left and right. Gimme more of that afro man.

The Athens media are going to have a field day with that penalty decision.

Good win, no great win. Panaitolikos were very good in the first half. Much better than us. Some of their passing in the midfield they were cutting us open with two and three passes. They deserved a goal. As for us, I don't know why we were so much better in the second half. It's not like our tempo lifted but rather more like Panaitolikos just stopped and sat back. Maybe they ran out of puff ? We definitely deserved to score a goal. @paokarag4 we found a way to win this one.

Aye but why even give the referee the opportunity to call it ? Just don't hold the damn shirt. Foolish.

Gord lord I thought the penalty was going to be saved. Now please please please please please don't sit back and defend.

No pressure on the penalty ...

How is that not a yellow for the Panetolikos player ?

I'd get Shakhov in for Canas.

I think there is going to be plenty of this for the remainder of the game. We have been all over them the last 10-15 minutes. If only we played like this in the first half.

Ok it got deflected ha ha.

Good lord Biseswar learn to shoot.

I actually prefer Vieirinha playing at LB but what the hell do I know.

Mak in for Limnios. Let's see what we can do. Time to pick up the pace.

I'd also consider switching Campos to the right and play Mak on the left.

F**king A

Also we won't be facing the sun. Saw a few times our players holding their hand up to their brow in the defence and midfield.

Superb save.

A re Djalma. That's how you steal games because we definitely are not the better team this half.

Jesus.