Greekoz

I find the Australian media to be very tiring after all these years, every soccer headline in the past use to be "soccer shame"..now they have added terrorist to the list of buzz words they use to try create a storm. They could not find one instance of violence yet that's how they reported it. So many news worthy stories out of Melbourne that they could have run this week and they picked out a festive football crowd to pick on, they thrive on it. Could you imagine if Australia was filled with Latinos who are even more hardcore than us European wogs? They would die lol. This will die down and then next week they will run a Bernard Tomic or nick Kyrgios story to run just to keep the casual racism ticking over. I just try tune out now.

Pretty horrible day to be a Greek in Melbourne, we are getting hit pretty hard today, front page of herald sun, radio, you name it. Never seen So many racist online comments in my life. Our "hooligans" are dominating all media platforms in the city today, hate this place sometimes.

I honestly believe our players backed out a little in the 2nd half fearing injury, vellios wanted to smash one of the Aussie defenders, one of the commentators said at half time that if if was a serious match Australia may have received a few red cards, don't get me wrong we commited lots of fouls as well but they were actually smashing our players. The last 10-15 minutes were a hell of a lot more comfortable then I expected. I'm really glad we won this game because the pedigree of our players is just so much higher then the aussies, we put them in their place, if we just had that one extra creative outlet like fourtounis to pick out the right pass we could have had a huge win.

Yep set pieces are our Achilles heel. 33,000 crowd

Best organised we have looked for a long time, Australia only threatened from corners, never looked like doing anything in general play. I believe we were happy to drop off more in the 2nd half out of fear of the Aussie rugby players sending us to the hospital. Samaris was the stand out player on the field, we have a bit to work with here, add the missing players into the mix as well. Obviously the 1st half was the standout, the high press and winning the ball in our attacking half, something that's not associated with our team.

Holebas should have made it 3-0..what a hit from maniatis

The best 10 minutes we have played for years! Keep it up boys

Lol @ channel 9 news, first question they ask the reporter outside the ground is if Greeks have caused any trouble, then they show footage of cops in riot gear walking outside the stadium. Says they're expecting 35,000.

Of course we are behind, we ended up in the ass end of the world lol, people in Greece think we are stuck in a 1970s time warp, we get sucked into these rubbish intra city rivalries like it means anything. Who gives a stuff how many people turned up to an airport or a training session, only we would bicker over something so trivial.

Im from melbourne and i tend to be the opposite. I like to back up and protect my fellow greeks from sydney, adelaide, ny, toronto etc. We are ALL the SAME and these clowns have to make it all about themselves. Maybe this is cos im getting older but they come across as very childish. Its not about being better, its about being a united greek diaspora. A lot of what they say reeks of greek cafe talk in melb and chest beating about how we are better than everyone. Its a joke. They crossed the line when they bagged out fellow greeks. And then crossed it further with that ridiculous post match rant on the team. I wanted to post something on their page but thought better of it cos they would just end up attacking me.

The hellas fan club of melbourne are arrogant and at times an awful look for the greek community. No need for them to bag out sydney greeks last week. None of them went to the airport either and at most 100 people were at the training session and the majority would not have been from them. The melbourne wing of hfc needs to pull its head in and stop living off that one night 10 years ago, a night that easily would have been replicated in sydney and other parts of the world. They just come across as show offs. Word on the street is tonights match will struggle to beat sydneys crowd. But greeks from the rest of the country wont ridicule. Hope the march goes well and doesnt descend into chaos. As for the aussie greeks calling up radio stations...stuff them and their self hating ways. Whilst im at it fcuk the ffa who tried to rort our community with absurd ticket prices..not the pay day these malakes were hoping for.

I couldnt be bothered sticking around 90 minutes for the training session last night and went home after the npl match..people waited around for 20 minutes and said stuff it, weather was crap as well. Its true about the brand and the very very long wait we will have to see this team again. The ffa had delusions of sell out crowds based on what happened 10 years ago. The reality is back in 2006 the ethniki would have packed out any stadium in australia, usa, canada and even germany. Those days are dead.for the next couple of decades this team wont venture out of europe that much aside from the odd trip across the atlantic to play in the states. Forget about them coming to the other side of the world any time soon..provided we dont host a world cup of course. I just hope they give us 1 goal to cheer tomorrow night so we can at least have a memory to hold onto...even if it means we lose 2-1

Yeh don't see the point in such negativity, the only reason I'm not going is cos I went 10 years ago, saw my heroes in the flesh and put it down as a once in a lifetime thing, I'll see the current group train on Sunday which is something at least, plus it's a great opportunity for Sydney Greeks who missed out last time. Make the most of this cos you may not see the Greek nt here again for decades.

Well it's just the 1 session, but it's all kinda rushed.

Dissapointing to read the hfc Melbourne ultras page on FB bagging out Sydney Greeks for not many people turning up to the airport, sort of arrogance is a turn of, it's not a competition.

For those in melbourne the greek nt will be training at lakeside stadium straight after the south melbourne v northcote match on sunday..should be a good day and now probably our biggest crowd of the season. The npl match starts at 4 so im guessing the training session will be around 6.30pm

Spot on, they thought because they struck gold 10 years ago they could do it again, clearly the ffa failed to realise that the mcg match was a once in a lifetime event with most of the euro 04 team coming out with otto combined with Australia qualifying for its first World Cup in decades. People have caught onto these friendly matches for exactly what they are and that's meaningless, sure people will love to go if reasonable priced, but the prices are in insult. The promoters who bought out olympiakos to Melbourne were similarly delusional, expecting 40k yet only managed to sell 8k tickets, they gave away a further 8k freebies the week before the game and the match was played in an empty stadium. I'd only pay big bucks to watch a major tournament match to be honest.

We beat nth Geelong 2-0 tonight in the cup and have advanced to the final qualifier against bentleigh away, will be a massive game and they're estimating a crowd of around 3,000 for that which is about as much as they can squeeze in, unfortunately like Olympic faced against the cros we are up against a superior opponent and more then likely will bow it, dunno what it's like in Sydney but all anyone cares about here is the cup. Think it's cos bentleigh, Hume and Heidelberg have advanced far in the past few years. Most treat the league like it's irrelevant,

I'm going to think 60k in Sydney and 45k in Melbourne, apparently ticket sales have been slow and the ffa have been forced to slash prices in an attempt to fill the stadiums, either way it won't be the financial windfall the federation was hoping.

Ah and the icing on the cake if we win our cup game on Wednesday we will face bentleigh away in the last ffa cup qualifier, absolutely no chance of winning at there ground.

Heidelberg get revenge for round 1 by humiliating south 5-0...and it should have been more. 2nd time we have been hit for a huge score line this year, no idea how we are top, will need to dip into the transfer market.

Beat Avondale 0-2 last Friday night at Knights stadium. Backed it up tonight by smashing the Knights at the same venue 2-5 to take out the old school NSL derby. 6 points clear of bentleigh in 2nd and 9 points clear of Heidelberg in 3rd...these 2 teams meet on Sunday.

Can confirm one of the attacking victory fans is the grandson of a Hellas ground Marshall and life member who was actually trying to stop the mayhem. The son of a Neos kosmos sports journalist has also been sighted amongst the invading victory hooligans. Very sad to see how many of these Greek kids are ruining their lives with this victory cult. At the end of the day the Greek media helpee create this monster with all the pro victory s%$#! over the past decade.

Channel 9 news to show it at 6pm..all the promos blame victory.

http://www.mfootball.com.au/audio-the-brawl-and-lujics-goal-at-the-lakeside/ Everyone listen to this, this was the live commentary as it all unfolded and describes it exactly as it occured.