Greekoz

Why are they saying on the Greek news the czeks are +12 ahead of us?

We can’t afford to lose by more than 10 I think...a more narrow win for Czecks would have been ideal.

Brazil lost to the Czechs, so we are still alive if we lose to the US...most likely now it comes down to us against the Czecks

It goes to points differential I think. So we beat Montenegro by 25, lost to Brazil by 1, beat NZ by 6...that makes us +30 currently, in the event of us and Brazil finishing on the same wins then it would come into play, ideally you would have preferred to best NZ by more than 6. As it stands our points differential is better then Brazil I think.

This team hasnt gelled well sadly. Poorly coached as well. The US havent been impressive but our level is nowhere near the level it takes to beat them. The czecks wont beat Brazil.

We don’t play Brazil again, we play USA and Turkey, if we beat both we need one of them to beat Brazil, if we lose to the US and beat Turkey (more likely scenario) we will need Turkey to beat Brazil. As it stands the US and Brazil will be 3-0 whilst us and Turkey will likely be 2-1. The loss to Brazil carries into the next group phase, so we need other results to favour us, that’s how crushing this loss was. In the meantime we need to crush NZ to get our points differential up just in case that becomes the tie breaker, not holding my breath our offence has been atrocious. In all likelyhood we are gonna have to beat the US and Turkey to advance, one win from those 2 is still likely to leave us short.

Even if we advance to the next phase we are screwed. We need to beat Turkey then hope they and the US both beat Brazil. Chances of getting to the knockout round is slim when you need to depend on other results. Waste of a tournament.

Ange Postecoglou currently sits 2nd in the J league with Yokohama. A comp that is about 2 levels above mls and 3 above Australia. He would wipe the floor with the 3 guys brought in now.

So Van Schip, Valkanis and Winter? 2 coaches who could barely cut it in the Australian league and Winter from memory who had a laughable stint in his only senior role in mls. dont get me wrong I love Valkanis and his family from Melbourne but this is rock bottom, they may as well be picking randoms off the street.

It use to be comical when Van Schip was coaching in Melbourne how often his teams would conceed goals in the last 10 mins, his style of play is boring, that’s fine by me, but he isn’t the one that’s going to stop the leaks.

Van Schip coached here in Melbourne for a number of years, this is a terrible appointment, he did nothing here, left to go coach a team in Mexico where he was fired and received death threats from that teams supporters, he returned to Melbourne to coach the same team only this time they were under the ownership of the city football group (man city) and he proceeded to do very little again. cant believe how low the bar has been set.

Had the chances. Team simply lacks a predator in the box to put chances away. Missed opportunity.

Nadal played incredibly well to be fair. Big year ahead for Stef. It was a fun 2 weeks here, took us back to the mid 2000s with euro/baghdatis type scenes. I believe Tsitsipas is the real deal. But its no coincidence his 2 best performances have come in Melbourne and Toronto where he received a lot of Greek support and he even commented that both tournaments felt like he was playing in Athens. He really feeds off the fans so when he comes to play in your city make sure you all come out in force, particularly later this yr at the montreal masters and the US Open at flushing meadows.

I have us finishing 2nd last here. This team doesn’t walk through anyone lol.

5-2 now. How much will Olympiakos need to beat Milan by to advance?

Surely its not too late to give Ange Postecoglou a go. He would never tolerate this.

This team is done. They have no purpose and are unwatchable. Need to get a real coach with a game plan to maximise the limited talent. This team wouls barely finish mid table in the Greek super league.

Which is why you play 2 up front..get the ball out wide to Toro or Koutris and launch cross after cross to mitroglou and koulouris. The extra mid is useless as we dont have the quality to construct play. Instead we preffered to play a training session of sideways and backwards..finland probably cant believe how easy that 2nd half was.

We spent the entire 2nd half passing sideways and backwards in our own half. Even in the final minutes we did this. The team is unwatchable hate to say it. Will be decades before a return to a major tournament.

Fkn disgraceful. Ashamed to be a fan of this team. Play 2 up front m#$%! no reason to take Mitroglou off when you need another goal.

Would be awesome, his teams actually try and play.

Isnt pretty much every Greek in Chicago from southern Greece? Its more of a big deal in Australia because a large portion of our Greeks are from Makedonia and a lot of those gypsies from north of the border are here as well. You dont really hear much about skopiani in America. Calling them "masos" isnt just limited to you guys everyone does it here as well, was at a family friends birthday party last week and she said to me "you gotta try the macedonian pizza"...was ready to throw the box at her head lol

Ged Kearney still won as her electorate has one of the highest greek populations in Melbourne. The skops thought they were gonna harm her chances of winning lol. She was forced into an apology.

The one in Melbourne got less. I feel a sense in our diaspora that the belief is that we have lost the battle on this issue. So turning out to these rallies is seen as pointless compared to the ones in the early 90s. The skops in the australian and canadian diaspora are just as fanatical now as they were back then, you only need to look at the turnout in melbourne a couple weeks back and the one in toronto a few days ago. At least in Toronto they didnt burn greek flags. Considering we outnumber them heavily in both cities and yet they still get thousands more to their rallies it shows the Greek diaspora sees it as a losing battle.

Goes from bad to worse, this time our lot have graffitied a skop church with " F*** Skopje" written on the front. Although it appears they may have done it themselves as the writing looks very questionable the skops are rallying in the city today and apparently they have attacked one of the few remaining Greek stores in the old Greek precinct and they have burnt Greek flags this is becoming a worldwide embarrassment from both sides. looks like they had a bigger attendance today then what we did last week.