Bananas

Well, that was like watching a light training session. Fair enough but we better up the tempo/intensity in the second half.

One metre on side = offside ?!

I take that back. Same s%$#!. Freezing constantly.

http://0dt.net/video/560756.html Seems to freeze a little less.

Crespo appears fine defensively so I think we'll be fine in that regard. I just don't think he's anywhere near as good in the attacking aspects of playing as a RB. Having said that, I've only seen him in a few games. This link keeps freezing periodically. Annoying

Crespo at RB over Kitsiou is surprising. It's good that Crespo is versatile. He can play anywhere along the whole back line but not sure what's going on with Kitsiou in general.

http://firstrowgr.eu/watch/471670/1/watch-veria-fc-vs-paok-saloniki.html Woeful resolution but better than nothing. Click the "Link 1" in green.

Katsikia. That's what I got on one link. Gamiseta.

It's that time again. Any links manges ?

Amorgiggles votes for Veroia to win. Oust! Oust apo do.

Yep, hope Charisis and Mystapashkidis get a run. Pereyra too needs some game time.

Overall, Savvidis has been a god send for the club. When he came in, we were financially up s%$#! creek. Remember having to sell Vierinha and letting players go for free because we couldn't pay their wages ? Any talk of Savvidis not doing enough for the club is lunacy. Truly, when he paid off the ~10 million debt to the government I was amazed. My only complaint about Savvidis is regarding the fiasco with managers being fired. In his first 3 seasons we had Huub, Anastasiadis and Tudor all fired roughly just after the Christmans break. Hopefully we don't go 4 for 4 this season. Of the 3, I only agreed with Huub getting fired, since he didn't want to be at the club anymore. Anastasiadis had us in the title race for half the season and although we dropped off after the Christmas break, let's face it, the team wasn't good enough for the title. Instead of strengthening the squad and trying again the following season, Savvidis took the easy route and threw another manager under the bus. At least the "fanatiki" were satiated. Tudor, yeah, he was a bit all over the place but let's remember he never said we were going for the title and he was a new manager. He was there to clear out the squad of all the older players and bring in some new blood to create a new core. To his credit, we got some decent players in like Cimirot, Charisis, Pelkas, Rodrigues and the team played all right all things considered. Again, instead of staying calm, analyzing the weaknesses and strengthening the team, he was thrown under the bus. Would Tudor have become less rigid with his beloved 3-5-2 and become a better manager in this second season ? We'll never know. As far as player budgets are concerned, it has grown massively under Savvidis. Before that we had maybe 2 or 3 player earning ~300K and the rest were on considerably less. Now, much of the squad is on 300K, 400K, 500K etc. And that's a good thing. With better wages we'll attract better players.

Campos, I'm undecided about. He hasn't impressed. Shakhov I think is good for depth and he has some height on him also which helps when you're playing tall sides. I actually really liked Biseswar yesterday for the first 20 minutes. He was in most of our attacking plays but he's still not fit. He was puffed out by the 25th minute. What I don't understand is why Ivic didn't have Pereyra on the bench. You know teams like Xanthi are going to park the bus. In that case having a player like Pereyra on the bench, who can be a good goal poacher, just makes sense. I can't understand it.

Great result ... for Xanthi, AEK, PAO, Olympiakos.

It happens, but it seems to happen to us much more often.

In that case you'd think having Pereyra on the bench would've made sense.

Ha! I better mute the Libero radio then.

10 minutes behind ?

Stream back up ?

Biseswar was good in the first 20 minutes but he's been quiet since then. As for Campos, that is a story for another day.

Thanks PAOKSWEDEN. You da man! :)

Kitsiou is good in attack, possibly better than Toro. But defensively he can be suspect. I think he's good if you're playing an opponent where you expect to have more of the ball and will generally be in their attacking half. In big pressure games against fast and physical opponents I wouldn't be confident with Kitsiou. Not yet anyway.

Νομιζω πως εχω χαζεψει με αυτα που εχω διαβασει σε αυτο το thread και τωρα δεν ξερω τι λεω. It's been pretty intense on subject matter that is for the most part extremely subjective. And then, somewhere along the way it got personal. Don't know why. I just skim over the posts now but the vaseline picture kind of stood out. Hopefully we are nearing the end of it. Hopefully.

I haven't, time being the enemy, but I remember reading a review somewhere on the best books to read regarding U.S. History and this was in the list and also highly praised.

I just watched the Qarabag vs Liberec last night. Yes, my life is exciting. Qarabag actually look like a dangerous team and were considerably better than Liberec. They played at a surprisingly quick tempo and their players seemed quite fit. They split the Liberec defence many times and on another day with better finishing could have scored more goals. Qarabag conceded a ridiculous goal in the 9th second straight off the kickoff and Liberec were all over them in the first 5 minutes but after they got over the shock of the silly goal they started to impose themselves. They were clearly better in the second half. Maybe Liberec will be better at home. PAOK would be wise to not consider these games a walkover. Our midfield and defence will need to be alert and cover space as Qarabag seemed able to play lots of nice through balls. The defence of both sides was suspect, and if Djalma and especially Rodrigues are playing to their normal level, they should do well. Even Biseswar I think can do well as we should in theory have the majority of the possession.