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I would love to see Kone back on this team. Hope he gets back into form..

I agree with you on Donis.. This kid looks like the real deal for us and his production will come if he keeps up what he's doing. He has skill and speed which will always allow him to be productive. As far as Skibbes comments I really hope he is being truthful because those are very encouraging words but once again with Skibbe i will take the wait and see approach as I don't have to much trust in him at the moment. If in fact he is serious and we do see friendlies organized with new faces then i will start to believe it and have faith again. I'm sure he cant be that blind and he must understand the Tziolis,Tzavellas and maniatis have no business on this team.

The only thing that I'm crossing my fingers on is that this coach will learn from his mistakes and see what everyone else sees. I'm very skeptical and worried that he will think to himself that they were close to making the World Cup so he wont change to many things. I'm not sure if he's thick headed or he just trusts older slower guys but if he continues with his Tziolis and s%$#! call ups I fear we will miss our 3rd tournament in a row.

I'll say it again if he truly meant what he said then Holebas would have been a regular starter on this team. Are you telling me Tzavellas is more inform then him? NO, so what he says and what he does are two different things. How can he justify playing an aging no talent out of form player like Tziolis but had to get bagged by the media and the fans for him to call up an inform lazaros? does that make sense to anyone? does that sound like a coach who says you must play to be called up? he also calls up vellios when he wasn't even playing so what ever Skibbe said in that interview is horse s%$#! because his actions showed otherwise. I have no faith in this guy going forward.

Do you guys honestly think Skibbe is really going to change the way he calls up guys or even the way he gets his team to attack or even worse play players NOT in there natural positions? I'm very skeptical and unless I see it I wont believe what he is saying.

We sit here and complain that our players are not inform and don't get regular playing time yet fetfa is not chosen of course he deserves a call up it's actually ridiculous that he's not called up. Skibbe wants inform players yet the most inform player of them all is Holebas but he choose NOT to play him for some mysterious reason that he only can explain. he is being a hypocrite as he is the one that chooses the line up..

^I liked Kone and I though he would be regular on this team. Hopefully he can get his game back as I'd like to see him back on the NT

That's the point even if Skibbe knew this he would have done it by now..

Bottom line guys we all know how important the mid position is in creating offence and dictating the pace of the game so for a coach to have Tziolis as his regular starter which no coach in the world would choose makes him an complete idiot. Why not have Siopis/Kourb and Zeca? do you guys think they would do worse then Tziolis and Samaris? And we've said this 100 times but a coach that also picks Tzavellas regularly over Holebas shows everyone that Skibbe doesn't belong anywhere near our NT as he is clueless. We lack skill and creativity on our team so we CANNOT afford to let guys like Holebas go as we are not a deep team. I'm just venting now as I'm so upset that he is staying because all of his old veterans that got the EPO to keep him will be regular starters for this team.

Exactly this. So how much faith do you really have in this guy?? I'm so pissed off that they kept him.

I don't know man I still think it's a HUGE mistake to bring this guy back... I don't have confidence that this guy has any creative thinking when it comes to offence or that he's going to make the right call ups. He is still going to call up vellios, diam, and I bet you Tziolis is still a call up in September.. This is a big mistake.. Get ready for a bunch of out of form players to be called up and start for this team..

I like it but with Skibbe as our coach I dot see it happening...

The Epo is voting on Monday and it's set to become official that Skibbe will stay on with the team. The main reason is because the players spoke up on how they want him to stay. This is the dumbest move the EPO can do. Skibbe will be loyal to the payers like Tziolis, Maniatis, Tzavells. he might make a small changes but he will continue to use thee guys and he will not look at the under 21 team or Fetfa and now there will be no chance Holebas comes back. You will continue to see bak, vellios, Diam, and all be called up. This will be a huge mistake and it will probably cost us another tournament.. This guy has no offensive creativity at all so he ignores the players that posses skill and just looks for players who can clear the f...g ball from danger. This will be very frustrating and painful to watch with this guy leading the team..

@Rockafeller Skank The players I'm referring to that are s%$#! are Tziolis, Maniatis, and I was saying it's not there fault because they are just not good enough. I was not referring to The rest of the players. I think you missed my point.. I'm saying I think we could have been even better then we showed this campaign if we had a coach that would use these players. Even Karnezis is not in form by the way, I like Staf but he's not inform either so you can't excpected him to do to much.. We were not going to go very far with Skibbes selection and anyone that can't see this needs to check there eyes or are clueless about the game of Soccer. We had much better and younger options then Tziolis, Manuatis, bak, even Tzavellas he's not that good dude and it should have been Holebas spot but again all of this falls on the coaches head. Yes I agree with you even we played Croatia that many times the results would be different. He chose a line formation that he's never used ffs in the most important game... Even he commentators were surprised..

You're right you can't blame the players, those players you mentioned are s%$#! and don't belong on the NT you can't blame them as they suck so you need to blame the coach instead for playing them. Also you can't blame the players when the coach picks a system that he's never used before in the most important game that's on the coach. You can blame the players for not scoring in the 2nd match against Croatia because the coach played more defensive so you blame the coach. The moral of this story is BLAME THE COACH he needs to leave bottom line and if he stays we will be dealing with the same s%$#! next campaign.. Everyone keeps saying he rescude our team from where we were. I say BULL s%$#! this team wasn't as bad as there record showed in last campaign and they were bound to rebound. We need a coach that still likes to play defence but is creative when it comes to offence.. with the backs that we do have we should be able to take some chances offensively instead of having old players and the most laughable midfield all playing behind half field ffs.

I agree Argy, This way we get to see our National team more often and in more meaningful games.. I think its great. We get to see 6 games from Sept to Nov for our Nt team, 2 each month and then in March the Euro campaign starts which means only Dec, Jan and Feb we wont see our team play. They're trying to grow the fan base and the importance of the National teams across Europe which great.

I also hope they're true as I think Ouzounidis would be a really good fit..

Somebody else had posted this and it seems like the U.S is trying to hold a parallel World cup this summer for all the top teams that didn't make it and that would also include Greece. http://www.sport24.gr/football/mundial/oi-hpa-theloyn-na-diorganwsoyn-parallhlo-moyntial.4940649.html

I also read that they have some interest in Traianos Dellas to coach the NT.

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You're right None of the 13 UEFA EURO 2020 host countries qualify automatically 24 teams to reach finals through European Qualifiers (draw: 2 December 2018, Dublin) Qualifying group stage: ten groups, top two from each qualify (20 places) Play-offs: 16 teams in four paths of four from UEFA Nations League, one qualifier from each path (4 places)

I completely agree but as long as Skibbe stays this will never happen.. We need to pray that the EPO gets rid of him.. if he stays we will never see the likes of the players you mentioned above and that's exactly what who need..

You guys need to read this as this article sums it up perfectly. This why Skibbe needs to get the F..k out he is not a competent coach at all. http://www.agonasport.com/agonasport-allnews/changes-needed-for-euro-2020

No greece I guess..

http://www.agonasport.com/agonasport-allnews/will-he-stay-or-will-he-go-examining-skibbes-future