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May he rest in piece. A shame, he had a wife and a very young child.

PAOK24 predicting some surprises in the starting eleven... http://www.paok24.com/podosfairo/55379/ekplikseis-stin-endekada --Glykos-- --Vitor-Costa--Tzavellas-- --Rodrigues--Tziolis--Golasa--Leovac-- --Pelkas--Jairo-- --Mak-- The above is from the article, although I think Mak and Jairo's positions will be switched. I'm glad to see Golasa starting again, Tudor has spoken well of him lately.

I'll give Skibbe the benefit of the doubt, for now. Nothing is as it seems with our boys. Anyone have any intel on what formations/style/conditioner/etc he prefers?

This match will be bookended by games vs Asteras Tripolis (November 1st) and Panthrakikos (November 8th). I would assume that Tudor's preferred 11 will start vs Asteras, and any considerations for this game would be second to that. On the plus side, we can essentially play our youth squad vs Panthrakikos.

Sportdog reporting that Tudor is looking for an additional CF, CM, and CB for January. Apparently not happy with Berbatov's output. Soon we'll have more players than Oly.

Creamed the Dolphins just now. Very solid.

A 31 year old free agent who can't find a club? Perhaps we ruined him.

I just wanted to put it out there. It's been bothering me for years.

PAOK's "parakamera" videos are also taped by some dude on the sideline, but they clearly care more ;)

Every time I see his name, I think to myself that it's a real shame that it isn't "Amorgiggles." This is unrelated to your bet.

Here are the goals. These guys need to get a better videographer. Although I guess I can't blame them, Cyprus only got the Internet last week.

I found this entertaining. Very much in the line of other made-up places, like Narnia and Middle Earth. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australian-accent-is-a-product-of-early-settlers-heavy-drinking-claims-academic-a6711486.html

Watching the highlights now... Can't believe that first one didn't go in for Mak. Great that Pelkas was there to finish the job. Great second goal too.

I'm kicking myself over missing this. Hopefully that youtube fella will put it up in the coming days.

You know just how to reach a lad's heart

That second one actually looks more interesting to me. I think I'm overdue for a return trip to Chicago. Bougatsa for everyone!

I don't believe Minoans were known to construct anything outside of Crete and its environs? NYT has a more in-depth article as well: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/science/a-warriors-grave-at-pylos-greece-could-be-a-gateway-to-civilizations.html?_r=0&module=CloseSlideshow&region=SlideShowTopBar&version=SlideCard-6&action=click&contentCollection=Science&pgtype=imageslideshow

Cup matches require youth team members to be called up as well, right? Three of them? Right now, the only one I would recognize is Deligiannidis (unless Pozoglou still counts?)

I think the guarantee was "wouldn't be loaned out before December." So he'd compete for his chance. I haven't seen anything in highlight videos that tells me he'd be good enough to start over the others, frankly.

I'm definitely hoping for a lot of new faces on this one. Tudor already confirmed a rotation, but who knows how much of one we'll actually see. Should also note that we used these "easy" cup matches as an opportunity to play our B squad last season too. Remember how well that went?

Will likely be a tough match, but we definitely need these three points. I would expect Asteras to end up in fifth this season, so anything we can do to make them drop points will be useful. PAO and AEK play each other this round, so this will also be a great opportunity to make up some ground.

vs MATCHUP: Asteras Tripolis - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague - Round DATE: 01-November-2015 TIME: 15:00 GR (13:00 UTC, 07:00 CDT, 00:00 AEDT) CITY/STADIUM: Tripoli - Theodoros Kolokotronis Stadium (7,616) REFEREES: TELEVISION: Nova Sport 2 (Greece), Sport Plus (USA/Canada) Asteras Tripolis vs P.A.O.K. History 2014-2015: 1:0 - Attendance: 2,462 (PLAYOFFS) 2014-2015: 3:0 - Attendance: 2,449 2013-2014: 1:0 - Attendance: 1,845 (PLAYOFFS) 2013-2014: 2:1 (Athanasiadis) - Attendance: 2,351 2012-2013: 1:2 (Athanasiadis, Katsouranis) - Attendance: 2,634 (PLAYOFFS) 2012-2013: 1:0 - Attendance: 2,218 2011-2012: 1:0 - Attendance: 1,892 2010-2011: 0:0 - Attendance: 2,367 2009-2010: 1:1 (Fotakis) - Attendance: 2,500 2008-2009: 0:2 (Anastasakos, Conceisao) - Attendance: 2,092 2007-2008: 2:0 - Attendance: 3,685 GAMES: 11 WINS: 2 TIES: 2 LOSSES: 7

Also true. I do like him, though. But, lots of damage has been done to us in the past due to this 'tude.

He translated it as stress and nervousness, so maybe nervous is what Tudor was trying to say.

Video of our U20s spanking Panathinaikos today. Good to see that this is a trend.