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Hume 1-2 South We got spanked first 40 minutes, then Hume copped a red card and we scored from the resulting free kick, they continued to dominate us even with 10 men and we got a 2nd goal against the run of play, we refused to go for the kill and ended up copping a goal to make it 2-1 and then we held out the last 10 minutes for the win, massive win after what happened last week but the team looks like a mess right now despite being top of the ladder. After 5 weeks away from home we return to lakeside to face bentleigh next Sunday in the top of the table clash, should be looking at close to 2,000 ppl but on present form we will get smashed.

Adding to the Melbourne list. Mill park - Greek Cypriots Keon park panathinaikos Westvale Olympic West Preston antagoras Lalor florina Box hill United - Pythagoras Caulfield Cobras Waverley aek Traralgon Olympic (2 hours outside Melbourne in country league) Collingwood city ( not so Greek anymore I heard) East Kew olympiakos

For those in Australia you can now get the sport plus channel via mysat tv, heard the ad on radio, it's in a package with ant1, alpha and Greek cinema, no idea what it costs, never even heard of them before this. Most Greeks here are using iptv now through Kodi so I'm interested to see how many would go back to sattelite tv after what happened to ert world.

I swear if you drop your guard in this league and don't respect the opposition you really do get punished, it's the reason why every week some team seems to cop 6, it was our turn this week, I made fun of heldelberg and Melbourne Knights for copping beatings this year but never did I think I'd see such unprofessionalism from my club, I'm not going to lie we could have conceeded 10 in the 2nd half. 3-1 in the 60th minute to 3-6 in the 90th minute is crazy! They copped a red card with 5 minutes to play and still put another past us, what a wake up call.

Complete capitulation last night, 3-1 up at half time, had chances to make it 4-1, conceeded 5 2nd half goals to lose 6-3 against Richmond who are one of the worst teams in the league, the most embarassing Hellas defeat I've ever witnessed live, struggling to process wtf went wrong in that last half hour. Hume away next week, bentleigh, oakleigh and victory at home to round out the month April, based on last night we will be losing all these games.

4th round ffa cup qualifier: south 10-0 keysborough, not much more to add lol. League resumes away at Richmond on Thursday night.

Earlier in the season I watched the olympiakos v aek match from the gol tv feed streaming, was about ant1 pacific quality. The best picture quality I've found this season is actually streaming from the 2nd division with ote links. Haven't had much luck finding gsl quality.

As I said his only hope is to get himself fit firstly and then impress enough to get signed up by an MLS club as you would assume they would be the only ones watching lol. Lots of MLS players featured at the last World Cup but he would have to be a standout even in that league to be considered for the ethniki again.

Bulleen 2-2 south Melbourne We were played off the park for 70 minutes, bulleen jumped out to 2-0 lead in the first 20 minutes, south were terrible and the synthetic pitch was having a huge impact on the game, our players looked like they had stepped onto ice, they literally looked scared playing on that thing and resorted to just pumping long balls to the other end of the field which played into bulleens hands, we came into the game after about the 70th minute, pulled it back to 2-1 in the 84th minute and struck the equaliser in the 89th. Completely underserved draw but we will take it as I doubt many teams will walk out of that place with anything this season. Atmosphere was top notch, 2,500 people on a 8.30pm Monday night kick off time, the lines outside to get in were chaotic and I missed both of bulleens goals, place went nuts when south equalised though.

Not even, samaras is only known cos of his links to Melbourne, I think in America they have a broader knowledge of the game thanks to a heavy Latino influence to go with the euro interest, here in Australia if you haven't played a significant time in the English premier league/Barcelona or Real Madrid you may as well not exist. The most famous all time Greek players in oz would be Dabizas and kyrgiakos thanks to the stints they had at Newcastle and Liverpool respectively. They wouldn't have a clue down here who manolas or our other euro based players are currently.

Is the NASL even professional? If you had told me 2 years ago that Samaras would be playing in Oklahoma I would have laughed my head off, best case scenario is he gets plenty of playing time and does well and maybe picks up an MLS contract during the year.

Honestly when you look at the names side by side like that and compare where each player plays his club football the gulf is pretty massive. You have big representation in champions league/ europa league with the greek team...in fact if these players played for australia the bogans here would probably label it a golden generation.

Honestly when you look at the names side by side like that and compare where each player plays his club football the gulf is pretty massive. You have big representation in champions league/ europa league with the greek team...in fact if these players played for australia the bogans here would probably label it a golden generation.

Australia will win because Greece won't give a stuff like 2006, but you would have to be delusional to think player for player the Socceroos are better than Greece...most of the Aussies play in garbage leagues. Individually every Greek player wins out.

I was sitting behind the benches and can definitely recall a few men in suits walking over to the olympiakos bench after the 3-0 went in after 15 minutes, Oly noticeably dropped off from that point on, none of us know what was said but you would think the message went out to them to cool off, if they were allowed to go at it for 90 minutes I have no doubt they would have put 10 past victory. I'm not gonna lie most gsl games are painful to sit through, entertainment wise the A league probably wins out, the thing is the new dawners actually think that makes the Australian league better, I remember the argument a few years ago that Brisbane roar would beat Stoke city cos they play better football and Stoke just hoof it, these clowns of course failing to realise that technically every Stoke player was on average 5 levels above the quality of an A league player and the difference being that Tony pulis directed his team to play that style, just because a team plays long ball it doesn't mean they have garbage players, but that's the level of idiots we are dealing with here. Aek proved the sheer gulf in technical ability when they came here. In fact you would notice in this country we always go through phases, first it was the Dutch craze, now Spanish is all the rage, when Ange postecoglou was coaching Brisbane playing a long ball was considered a sin, this year it's all about flares...we go through these little annoying buzz stages. Meanwhile in the real world of football (Europe) teams are scraping for titles, European spots and throwing everything on the line to avoid relegation, whilst here the same bat s%$#! boring teams play eachother every 3 weeks and teams like central coast can lose 100 games in a row and still be in the top flight. The latest classic on Fornaroli is a laugh, apparently he couldn't score goals in Greece because panathinaikos never had a midfielder of the caliber of Aaron mooy to feed him LOL...the same Aaron mooy that couldn't cut it in Scotland ffs. Honestly sometimes I wish we could just press the reset button and go back to the 90s and have the NSL, at least we enjoyed it for what it was and never compared our local heroes to global players or our clubs to global giants, here in Melbourne we all loved Paul Trimboli for eg but nobody would ever claim he was world class or anything, he was just a gun for Australian soccer and we loved him for it, I miss those days when everything felt real, nowadays everyone is trapped in fantasy land and listening to it does my head in.

Call it nostalgia but I'm actually enjoying fuller house lol. About to binge watch season 4 of house of cards. I like the blacklist as well.

In Melbourne we must have at least 30 Greek clubs, feels like every neighbourhood has a Greek team lol, in the top state division npl you got 6 Greek clubs I think. Most of them don't really have any fans except for south Melbourne and to a lesser extent Heidelberg, the rest are not worth talking about.

South come away with a 2-0 win at port Melbourne, 1st half was the best we had played all season, had enough chances to score a bucketload, to ports credit they had most of the ball in the 2nd half but didn't threaten enough. 3 from 3, 12 goals scored, 0 conceeded. Off to bulleen next Monday night/labour day, traditionally a popular game that gets a big crowd and we haven't played at that ground for years, should be a fun night.

I posted this in the other thread about the matches being like training sessions and why the best results the club gets are in the early stages of the champions league as the team is in the process of establishing a big points lead in the league, once that lead is established to the point where it's all but mathematically over ( December) that's when the team also starts becoming useless in Europe. Moving forward this will be a serious issue for the club, when the inevitable occurs next year perhaps for certain league games they would be better off just playing the fringe players who will at least be hungry, a formula needs to be established to keep the entire playing roster on their toes.

The bergers are a decent side and will be in the finals mix south just crushed them last week and everything clicked, the Knights lost a lot of key players but for a proud club like that it's a disgraceful score line . Every team loses but I'd be livid if south ever copped 6 against anyone in this league, bentleigh also out 6 past Richmond so the goals are flying in. Another derby for Hellas away at port Melbourne on Friday night, this will be tricky as port purposely reduce the grounds size so they can shut opposing teams down, kid you not its a juniors ground these days and we always struggle there as we have no space to move the ball, basically becomes Russian roulette.

The empty stands at kairaskaki to see the team clinch the title speaks volumes and shows where the league sits in the pecking order, the season will be remembered for 2 home defeats, the 1st against Arsenal where we could have even advanced with a narrow loss, and the debacle against anderlecht, the clubs entire season rested on those 2 matches and we blew it, not even doing the double with the cup can salvage it. Olympiakos winning the league title is the equivalent of a big English club winning the carling cup these days.

The other teams need to lift and put up more of a challenge, the standard of today's 3-0 over Veroia was about 6 levels below Europa league level, training run intensity and players able to get away with poor technique. Anderlecht would be winning the same match by 5 goals without trying.

2nd game will be in melbourne on july 7 at etihad stadium which fits about 52,000. They must have known they had no chance of getting 90,000 again.

It wasnt as easy as scoreline suggests, they missed a penalty and hit the post to make it 1-1..but 2nd half south stepped it up piling on another 3 goals...cant complain with 10 goals in 2 games. Its strange cos we arent actually playing all that well.

I think we also need to accept that the state of the Greek league is also playing a huge part here, why is it every year olympiakos can pull off huge results in the early stages of the CL? Wins over Arsenal, Juve, athletic Madrid etc don't lie, I believe it's because the players are switched on because it's the early stages of the league, the problem is when the title is all but won in December the players treat the league games like training sessions, sure they try hard but the pressure is off, they can muck around and know even if a result goes against them they are so far in front they have nothing to worry about, switching from easy relaxed league mode to cutthroat European action mode is a major step up and now very regularly this team seems to get caught with its pants pulled down around February because they aren't prepared for the step up in intensity and pressure that accompanies European football.