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you beat me by 2 seconds

what the hell is Garcia doing back? what does he bring to the club in crisis? they have a TD...Find a quality coach...then sign 5 quality footballers.... Klaus,Mak, Pereyra, Rat, Skondras, Kace , Noboa can be useful with good players around them...

I have stated in the past that even if the debt was written off in a few years we will be back in the poo....For the very same reasons you say... Also, regarding tax collection.....I also said how can syriza collect tax from 'working class people' effectively??? how can syriza be seen as 'punishing the masses'? How can Syriza set KPI s for Executive staff and Managers at the Tax office who will be tasked with making sure tax dept. staff increase productivity in conducting tax audits....and then also be more efficient and effective in collecting tax from high caliber audits? How can syriza 'fast track' the legal process thru the Courts to prosecute tax dodgers? How will Syriza allow the Courts to enforce orders against 'The Lao'

furthermore foreign investors need a stable environment where growth is not sabotaged.... Asian investors have come to invest in the Australian property market because it's secure and long term it won't suffer even if at the time the prices are artificially inflated.... going back to the drachma or even in the current depressed market Greek property is cheap but only as a 'cheap option'....somewhere to 'spend/waste' a few dollars for a holiday pad.....not a market to invest for long term growth... Syriza, from a point of view of growth and investment and 'foreign credibility' where the worst option for Greece.

he's no good

ah yes.... early retirement for those hairdressers in the 'hazardous' industry.... my ex mother in law still works as a hairdresser at 69......in Melbourne.....

what a complete nut job Kouyias is? how the hell does this guy get any oxygen to spew his garbage..

what ever happened to all those recent plans for Solar energy and wind farms? how is the gas/oil explorations going? we were told that by early 2015 we would have significant reports?

if all we can hope for is to become another Croatia or Bulgaria then god help us?? don't forget these countries are nothing to aspire to....also their GDP per capita has always been much lower than Greece especially prior to 2008......and any growth in these countries + Romania and Slovenia needs to be put in the context that they started from an extremely low base in the first place you are obsessed with 'tourism'....tourism in Greece is as strong as it has ever been...the currency is not the issue in tourism... we can't keep flogging this old chest nut....we are not Bali or Fiji... Construction in places like Bulgaria has more to do with being more friendly to foreign investment, as is FYROM...Greece is terrible at this...we have no policy for proper investment...Greeks need hundreds of thousands of real jobs paying a decent monthly salary...this is big picture stuff...not frappe makers... Cyprus is a tiny nation with a tiny economy....Greece is far more complex the two can not be compared... Portugal is struggling, but they are not on the brink as we are, mainly because the political landscape is vastly different...they do not have characters like Kanelli on prime time radio preaching her manifesto 'on new world order' and the 'bad capitalists'.. sadly Greeks are too stupid to realise how these proper economies work.... would the nation and the individuals be better off if at 19 they decided that in fact they are better off becoming 'cannon fodder for the capitalists' and getting a job, instead of hanging around universities at 35 unemployed and planning their next fire bombing??? frappe anyone?

@JS100 you say European nations can prosper without EU? I ask which backward,Balkan state without proper industries has prospered outside the EU? The areas that Portugal,Spain, Cyprus have suffered are similar to our shortcomings....where they have maintained ahead of us is that they don't have the same complex over bearing antiquated sociopolitical system that we have....not to our extent... the 'framework' to success is not an EU troika way to control.....the 'framework' is the one that gives us the opportunities living in more advanced modern societies.... In short...we got it way wrong some 50 years ago...and refused to see the 'light'.... we refused to become a version of Holland or Belgium but chose to become Serbia or El Salvador.

its not that Greeks are lazy as such.... its more of a case of Greeks not have a true understanding of the mechanisms of a viable modern economy....nor what the role of government is in our lives....the government does not owe us a living.. they lay the framework and rules for us...we make our own luck... the tools required to create proper investment and wealth are foreign to Greeks... 10 year degrees that lead nowhere are not the 'governments fault nor the troikas'. its a mentality that has been fostered and nurtured for decades.... the troika simply want us to function like other EU member states......there are rules and processes... cutting corners greek style circa 1980 is what got us in the poo...

so Tasoulis, giannoulis,Stafyllidis at LB? These guys are 'Hungary quality'

we have had record growth in tourism over the last 10 years.....people have not stopped coming we had 21-22 million tourists last year..... A souvlaki at 2-3 euro or 1-2 euro(or the equivalent in drachma) won't alter tourism numbers. The costs of goods and services in greece are not prohibitive to quality modern tourists... Also quality tourism requires constant upgrading in infrastructure, standards of hotels etc...this can't be achieved by an economy on the brink or one dealing in unwanted drachma. Greece can't become a 'Fiji' or 'Bali' style tourist destination. It needs to become a modern,sophisticated destination competing with the best of Europe..... be careful what you wish for? Turkey and Egypt tourism means Turkey and Egypt prices? = Turkey and Egypt standard of living and labour laws...

VERY TRUE.... Investors wont flock to greece simply because of the drachma.....We will be seen as even more unstable and unattractive than ever... @Bananas the standard of living in Greece was not great prior to the 1990s....a lot of crazy wild spending and two bob millionaires....was the catalyst of what we have today.....Andreas Mr.PASOK started the rort, people were not accountable the gravy train would not last forever..... you may scoff at the right v left debate as some cold war joke...however the 10 year uni degrees and unfriendly labour laws etc are inventions and protectorates of the 'infamous greek left psyche'.....the whole nation has a warped unhealthy perception on these issues... just take some time and listen to the air time given to clowns like kke and the rubbish they talk about....any serious commentator would laugh them off the planet, but in Greece they feed the beast and treat them as if they are 'legit'??? Syriza is the modern sitcom version of kke.....

Che Your points are valid strictly speaking......and we don't want to get trapped in the right v left mire... however the symbolism and ideology of the Greek left is so overt and so much in every day life that it is impossible not to blame it as a major factor to the current situation.... their NO investment friendly policies and the whole education system are purely created to keep them relevant.... There are thousands of Tsipras in greece who exist just to sponge off the 'dhmosio' they exist to continue the current system.

The problem is Greeks in Greece don;t really want to understand the workings of a proper government.. they view everything from a suspicious and know it all point..would rather argue about an issue that happened 45 years ago instead of drawing a line in the sand and finding a solution.....

from the flimsy evidence that I read...a defence barrister could drive a bus through it..... it was not up to super-league to prosecute UEFA could have proceeded if there was enough evidence.

just say...;'i don't care what meli does'....because he is meli.....

last I read re Iraklis that was what was stated.......However Iraklis will more then likely gain promotion and probably play under the same conditions as PAS and Panionios do...limitations to signings of players over the age of 24 etc...then from their second year in GSL gain unrestricted licence.

Iraklis issue is that 3 years have not passed since the takeover of that Pontian club...apparently it is a prerequisite for SL licence...AEL would be some similar clause...As they were 'wound up; less than 3 years ago??

I rate Chavez.....However with Mak, (maybe) Lucas and Pereyra it appears you have that type of role covered..... CD.....And high quality DM is the priority

all of these guys are cowboys and so far removed from what their role should be....

that is my point.....none of these guys should be addressing the players in any capacity...

that is irrelevant.....CAS ruled him to be illegible the rest is a non issue..

actually those stats indicate AEK must have played well and had a good run with officiating...you can't have a very good For and Against record ..unless a lot of things go right... Anyway...fact remains The Pontians played an illegible player.....the case went to CAS....It was adjudicated on by an independant body....