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Shouldnt Kone be on this team?

I do not want to see Oikonomou on this team. He looked so bad in the games he played for the Ethniki.

I personaly think if Kyriakos is healthy he automatically gets in the starting 11 even if he's missed a s%$#! load of games because of injury. Even if he is a bit rusty the guy brings leadership, energy and passion in that line up and that's rare to find on this team right now. He is a must for me.

Aus I like your DREAM while you were watering your plants but in reality you've said this a few times now that we've gone through our rebuild and we have turned the corner, my question to you is what are you basing this on?? I hope it's not on the one win against a very week Australia team. I personally think we've been juggling our line way to much and that we have not shown any significant change that will indicate that we've turned the corner. What have you seen from this coach and team that gives you so much confidence because maybe I'm missing something. I would have had confidence in this team if they held clean sheets and have gotten wins and draws by playing an organized style after the Euro but unfortunately I've seen nothing like that yet.

Ellas it is confirmed, when you go to fifa.com go to the groups and click on Gibraltar and it will show they play Greece on September 6th. for some reason when you click on Greece it doesn't show them playing Gibraltar but I thinks its just not updated yet.

Okay so the Euro is over and it even though I watched the games it still sucked not having our team represented, especially when you see the likes of teams like Albania, Hungary and so on. The focus now turns completely to the WC and our team better smarten the F*** up because I can't handle missing another tournament and going through this s%$#! again. Skibbe better have a plan and get he s%$#! together and start getting this team to play organized hard to break down soccer.

You guys can say what you want about Santos, but having his team play solid defence and catch teams on the counter and in set pieces WON them the Euro with out Rinaldo. Portugal had no business winning this tournament. One thing I can say about Santos is that he he new what our weakness were so he played to our strengths just as he did with Portugal.

I don't understand the hate that Santos is getting. I to would take him over any coach we've had over the last two years, the one thing Santos was good for was getting the team to play to its strengths even though a lot of people thought it was to "boring" I also think Even with the lose of some of our veterans Santos would have build in our world cup success and we would have qualified for the euros. Even though I didn't agree with everything he did he still new how to get this team to suffocate opponents defensively and play inspired football. Those 3-1 games we lost to Irleand or the loss to Finland and the FI at worst would have been a draw in my opinion. I think everything hit this team like a ton of bricks Karagounis retiring then Samaras no longer on the team, Santos leaving, all these things that occurred left the team lost with no one to lead or inspire. To many changes all at once F***ED this team.

When it comes down to our last friendly against Netherlands if Skibbe does more tinkering and doesn't pick a line up that will replicate our line up at the WQ then he's truly an idiot and I will be so pissed off. As it stands now we are all still kind of scratching our heads to the potential line up and formation that skibbe wants to go with and we have imo wasted a lot of friendlies instead of trying to rebuild chemistry with the players we want to field at the WQ.

On another note take a look at our record and Bosnia's over the last 2 years BOSNIA. BOS 2 JAP 1 BOS 2 DENMARK 2 BOS 1 SPAIN 3 BOS 2 SWITZERLAND 0 BOS 3 LUXEMBOURG 0 BOS 0 REP OF IRL 2 BOS 1 REP OF IRL 1 BOS 3 CYPRUS 2 BOS 2 WHALES 0 BOS 3 ANDORRA 0 BOS 3 ISRAEL 1 BOS 1 AUSTRIA 1 BOS 3 ANDORRA 0 BOS 0 ISRAEL 3 BOS 1 BELGIUM 1 This included the Euro qualifiers and friendlies they still finished 3rd in a much tougher group then us and had 5w 2d 3L 17points Belgium 23pts Whales 21pts Bosnia 17pts Israel 13pts Cyprus 12pts Andorra 0pts Just for kicks we all no our results but when you put it side by side it's even scary then first thought. Gr 0 Romania 1 Gr 1 Finland 1 Gr 0 N Ireland 2 Gr 1 Faroe 2 Gr 0 Hungary 0 Gr 0 Finland 1 Gr 0 Poland 0 (no Lewandowski) Gr 0 Serbia 2 Gr 0 Romania 0 Gr 1 N Ireland 3 Gr 0 LUXEMBOURG 1 Gr 4 Hungary 3 Gr 0 Turkey 0 (turned out to be 3-0) Gr 2 Montenegro 1 Gr 0 Aus 1 Gr 2 Aus 1 N Ireland 21pts Romania 20pts Hungary 16pts Finland 12pt Faroe Islands 6pts Greece 6 Pts Bosnia would have easily qualified if theu were in our group. Can some please look at this and explain to me where we have "Turned the corner" and the he F*** do we expect to challenge Bosnia for a World Cup spot? Looking at me his leading up the September we might not be able to beat Cyprus. I was just st looking at this and I don't see a scenario where we qualify.

I don't think there is evidence that we have turned the corner, especially considering that the guys that started in the Australia games are not going to be the starters in the WQ, so realistically I don't see how we've changed yet.

^so we only have one friendly left before the WQ? That sucks.

Regardless of what the reason was or wasn't bottom line we STUNK and we still have not played a GREAT match since the EQ and that should concern us all as I fear this disaster is not over for us and will continue. I'm watching Belgium play Rep of Ireland right now and they are crushing them 3-0, can you imagine what this team is going to do to us. After watching a lot of these teams at the Euro even the so called s%$#! teams at least they all look like they are playing with passion and heart something our boys are clearly lacking. On paper we should be at the Euro but in reality we have fallen apart. I'm not sure there is enough time to fix this mess before the WQ.

Let's say this is true that there is only 5-7 players that have talent, This still doesn't make sense why we've been so bad, because if you look at the teams we played against in the EQ NON of those teams had 5-7 players on the field with Talent, so by that logic we still should have topped our group. If you can play a system with a team that has 5-7 talented players on the field you should be able to stay and compete in most games and you shouldn't lose to Fisherman or Shitty Northern Ireland/Finland and so on. I believe this team does have talent, I think the problem is getting them to buy into a system that works and finding the right leader on the field to lead this group, someone vocal and someone that guys respect.

^ I get that, but as you know the way our players have played they don't deserve time off from the NT at all. We can't afford it.

^Aus I love your optimism but it wasn't even our main players that played that game, and to be honest since Skibbe has taken over we still haven't seen a game played with our most likely starters. We don't need to build a chemistry with guys that aren't going to play we need to do it with our main starters because unfortunately they lack chemistry together. Skibbe did a good job in the last game but I'm Afraid he has wasted way to many friendlies experimenting instead of building a system with the players we know are going to be our starters. That concerns me a lot. Time and friendlies have been wasted with tinkering when it should have been practice and and adapting to the style he wants us to play.

^How does the team look like it has a good bond? Based on what? One win? The win we got was with 80% of our starters not even playing, so how is that a good bond? When was the last time you've seen a squad that will resemble a line up at the WQ and you said they look like they have chemistry?

^ is that our next friendly vs Holland?

Is it done?

How much time left

Did Australia score

Do we know what are line up is yet?

Another wasted line up the serves no purpose and does not prepare us for the WQ. BRAVO

What a wasted opportunity in these two games to field a line up that would somewhat resemble our World Cup line in October and get valuable practice time togethore..