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  1. Come on guys pound for pound we are better then Bosnia? Based on what? We were also better than every other team in our group on paper. What have you seen in this last year that indicates to you we are better then Bosnia? Can anyone here tell me that if Bosnia was in our group they wouldnt have won our group hands down. This is definitely Bosnia and Belgiums group to lose not ours.
  2. ^i get what you are saying but the way I look at it is this, I think it's fair to ASSUME Belgium will take the first spot as they are better then any of the teams in our group, so that leaves us and Bosnia and maybe Cyprus, but let's focus on Bosnia, Bosnia will go in ahead of us on goals for remember it's not head to head in the World Cup its goal differential. Bosnia will with out a doubt double us on goal scoring which will automatically put them ahead. We have to be honest with our selves as much as it SUCKS, but Bosnia would never lose to the FI in a qualifier both times they played them know matter which players they start, or end up losing to Luxembourg. We might have the pieces on Defense I recognize that but we are not a very good team at all. Let's not forget this isn't something new with this team as we would barely squeeze out 1-0 wins against minnows for as long as I can remember with such a small margin of victories against those teams now the tide has turned and the minnows are squeezing out similar outcomes against us. The only thing we had going for us was our rock solid defense that was allowing us to barely get victories and if we couldn't score then we new it would be a goalless draw. Those times are long gone as the tide has changed on this team. Just my opinion I really hope I'm wrong.
  3. I say we start all of our young talent for the next World Cup and start to give them experience. We have nothing to lose there's is no way we are qualifying for the World Cup and come out of our group. I don't think we will qualify for the next euro so why not take this time to slowly get rid of the aging players and just go with a young team. I know there's guys out here that think we have a chance to qualify for the World Cup but that's just guys thinking with there hearts instead of there heads. Since we won't qualify for a major tournament at least for the next 4 years whe have nothing to lose.
  4. I don't feel optimistic about our World Cup campaign. I personally think we will finish anywhere between 3-4.Anyone who says they're optimistic what are you basing that on? Skibbe? The fact we beat Hungary and scored some goals? Or is it when we lost to Luxembourg? Our team is a good 3-5 years away from being competitive again. I don't think this was a fluke what we went through I just think we are a bad team to be honest. It's no coincidence that we have gone through 4 coaches with the same results. We will not qualify for the next World Cup Belgium is going to take first spot and we won't be able to compete with Bosnia, even if we get lucky and tie Bosnia twice Bosnia will spank the other teams except for Belgium and we will barely score a goal or pull out a 1-0 victory so Bosnia will go ahead in goals for and that is the best case scenario. I personally think we will even finish behind Cypress.there is no upside to this team right now.
  5. The issue was never the coaches the issue was our players.
  6. I personally think the main problem Skibbe will have is the exact problem we seem to have when mentioning our starting line up. I don't think guys like Kluas/karelis/giannou/vyntra and others should be playing for this team in September. we all know the core players that must start we just need to find good structure and see where that takes us. Flipping back and fourth with guys like the ones I mentioned above every game is not going to build consistency with our team. Before you can start introducing young guys with no experience at all at the NT level you first need to build a NT with consistency and structure so that way when young guys come in they know there role and they won't look as lost out there. Right now the way the team is its not fair to judge these young guys because they're coming up to a NT with a s%$#! attitude and a losing mentality and theses boys look lost out there. For now we need to stick with our main pieces and see if Skibbe can get them to play a different way and bring a positive attitude and if that still doesn't work then scrap these guys and start a true rebuild.
  7. I agree with what most of you are saying about the players we need to put in but I'm just as concerned about our defense just as much as our offense. We have conceded in almost every qualifier to sub par teams to say the least this concerns me a lot. It's time for change I agree we need to bring up guys that are young full of energy and who poses some potential flair offensively, but we have all said this a million times our defense and our Greek wall we would build on defense that would intimidate and frustrate the s%$#! out of teams is gone and we need to find that back first before we can move on to our offense. Let's think about it logically we can't score we all know that and a few young guys may help like Pelkas, Fortounis and so on but they won't be able to score at will so if our defense is week and allows one to two goals a game that will most likely result in a loss for us so we need to think defense first. even in the Hungary game yes we were scoring at will but it took 4 goals to barely beat Hungary who scored 3. Bottom line defense is the most important and then let's work on our offense.
  8. ^Blackhawk you are absolutely right. I've had said this from day one. I don't care how boring our soccer looks what I care about is results, we need to go back to our boring defensive minded style of play and find out ways to sneak a 1-0 wins. I understand we will tie a lot of games but that's okay and least we will not be losing to teams like Lux and FI. For some reason it went to a lot of people's head that we need to get away from what was successful and very boring looking to all of sudden becoming this attacking force. We suck when we do that and are very easy to score against when we play that way. The game against Turkey which I wasn't happy with only because all this s%$#! has happened before, but realistically we went in to Turkey we gave up more chances but our Defence held its own and we created a few counter attacks and possibly could come out with a 1-0 victory. That's how the Greek team needs to play against every opponent. I also hear a lot of guys saying we should play Defence against the better teams and open it up against the weaker teams in the World Cup campaign. If we do that we will lose to cypress and possibly Estonia just like we did with Lux and FI. I guarantee if we played boring defensive soccer we would be in the euros right now. STOP trying to change our style it doesn't work for us. Everyone is scratching there heads to what in the world possibly went wrong with this team and the answer is simple, play to our strengths and forget trying to make us an attacking team at the expense of our defense.
  9. We need to face the fact that we will not be competitive or see another major tournament for years to come. There is no quick fix here and the longer you go by not fielding your best players you have the longer you leave them out with no NT experience. Realistically even the best players we have right now are still not good enough but I would rather be losing with young guys that have the potential then guys like tziolis. This is an absolute nightmare.
  10. Greece unfortunately doesn't stand a chance in hell of wining this game. First off they will not score and secondly the will concede a few.
  11. Wow look how much we miss Samaras,I know a lot of guys on here never liked him but if he was on this team he would be a guaranteed starter. Look how much we miss someone that can take a pass make a pass and dribble and slow the pace down. Now I understand he doesn't have a club and he's out of form but F*** I would love to have him back.
  12. ^ I like your positive thinking but we just lost to Lux and you think it's going to be 0-0 I think we are going to get spanked.
  13. We've been through 3 coaches and an intern all with the same result. The real issue here is our players SUCK at least the ones we are fielding. I've said it before one win versus Hungary did not changed my mind about this team at all but as a coach you just saw the NT win its first game in how many months so what the F*** does Skibbe do instead of building on the positive which was a win and goal scoring he completely changes the line up. I'm Sorry but for that reason alone I don't feel confident in Skibbe. If I just got hired as a coach and i see the last game the NT played they won then of course Im Going to keep the same line up just to see what I have and make sure that the game was no fluke and see if I can build positives and chemistry around that victory. Im So deeply disgusted by the EPO our players and the coaches.
  14. im so humiliated and depressed all my passion and excitement for my beloved NT is fading quick. We have officially become a middle of the pack minnows team not even the upper end of the minnows. That is so pathetic. We literally go from a penalty shot goal away from reaching the final 8 to becoming one of the worst teams in Europe and in the world. Im not even excited for the World Cup campaign because the reality is we don't stand a chance in hell of qualifying yet alone beating anyone.
  15. Besides the friendlies how much time does Skibbe actually have with the NT before the World Cup campaignnodes he actually have practise time on a regular basis or does he only get then NT just before a game?
  16. Reaper are you kidding me..... Are you saying on paper the line up that we put in today even tho it's s%$#! in my opinion isn't good enough to beat Lux? I Don't give a F*** which players we put in we shouldn't be losing to these minnows. You say you don't you understand my logic but, you say we lost cause our line up was s%$#!, how good of a line up do you need to beat these teams? Most teams play there B squads against these teams. When will the excuses stop? We just need to realize we are s%$#! and we have become minnows ourselves. I'm going by proof we were the only team to lose to FI this entire campaign and now we lose to Lux.
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