Nea Bafra

I have thought of this previously. The easiest way for the club to do this would be to scout some girls of Greek descent here or in NA or maybe Germany where they've had a more extensive grounding than the greek girls.

The problem being, if you don't have a grass roots level system, how can you have an elite system. It would be like Australians trying to compete on an international level in Ice Hockey, or Americans in cricket.

The US team is the perfect example of funding for development over funding of elite clubs combined with participation. The in built college system helps with the ID of talent. I imagine the issue for the US system is as the European leagues expand outside of the traditional Sweden/France/Germany into the other major nations and beyond how does it retain talent. At the moment the US girls are going over, but I can see in the next decade EU will have enough homegrown talent to not require them. Then as the US league is no longer a destination for players because everyone wants to play champions league, what do they do. Also, I tried to go on the EPO's website to find out about junior football and all I could see was some national U12 tournament/competition. Nothing about women's or junior football. I'm not surprised, just saddened.

I agree completely. The problem for areas with low participation levels is that the ability to ID and develop talent is much harder. I'd love to know what is any kind of pay the PAOK players get and what the numbers of registered juniors is. For example my daughter's club is not an elite level [WNPL] club but it is the second biggest junior club in the state. It has multiple teams in every age group from u9 up to u16 and then two open age teams [seniors/reserves]. That's over 100 females playing, developing, competing from an early age. Does this happen in Greece? Outside of the big clubs what is the competition structure like for juniors?

Just to give you an idea of generally the state of greek football. Benfica got mauled today conceding 5 goals in the first 55 minutes to Chelsea.

Government says number of daily infections, based on a seven-day rolling average: • Currently at 1,609. • Was 2,674 in mid-November. Needless to say this is Greece not the US

That was all I could have hoped for and more Truly stunning

i am not one to cast aspersions on peole's cApItAlIsAtIoNs

careful lads, you don't want to be considered "anti-PAOK"

Agreed. We play better with Karol in the team [not great, but better].

We have few true food abominations here [there aren't many true Australian dishes]. The worst one that comes to mind is the pie floater, it's a meat pie floating in a pea soup.

A few times? After the first couple you thought this might be redeemable?

I don't disagree. Still makes me nervous

This

Nothing to see here. I've said my piece and I'm done. What type of popcorn though?

Michailidis back there gives me no confidence, but this is the kind of game the kid needs to build his experience.

No I'm definitely anti PAOK you've worked me out. I'm secretly a Russian bot hired by a competing oligarch to Ivan. I have come to this forum that is so popular to post my propaganda in order to convert the 30 or so PAOK fans to sacrifice their first born children to Marinakis. You can find proof of this if you just click my username, you can do a deep dive on all my posts to satisfy your conspiracy theory loving heart, when you've finished your detective work I expect you to send the AFP around to my place. Also on a serious note, work on your comprehension. I didn't say we didn't lose the match in midfield and I didn't say it was Garcia's fault we lost the match [I also didn't say to take out Iggi] so if you're going to go name calling at least do me the courtesy of understanding what I wrote. I was specifically talking about the choice to play Crespo and keep him there for far too long.

Smack myself across the face? Not a PAOK fan? I make a balanced assessment of my thoughts and this is the kind of childish rubbish you have in response? Let me add to my statements previously and hopefully you can follow on. Garcia made a positional move with Crespo. Let's assume his hands were tied to start with. He made no change until we were behind for this position. Once the game started did he have options to adjust? Yes, at least two that I can think of. He could have a] switched to a 4-4-2 system were Crespo only needs to defend, not try and put in a cross or play an attacking ball. b] switched Crespo for Ingason. From what we've seen Sveri likes to get forward and personally I think as a wing back he'd be more of an upgrade to the position than Crespo is a reduction at centre back. but what do I know I'm just an anti-paok fan who needs a smack in the face.

Why can't we blame Garcia for Crespo performance? Does he not know what Crespo can and can't do? Did he not watch the UCL playoff where Crespo played in the same position? Tell me, if he put Zivko Zivkovic in the same position and he screwed would it not be Garcia's fault? Does this make him a bad coach? No? Was it a mistake? Yes. Did he have few other options? Yes due to issues outside his control and those that predated his promotion. We have to blame Garcia for Crespo's performance because Crespo played to his maximum which in this position is extremely limited.

This one has to fall on Abel's shoulders.

Our midfield is non existent

Na to. We invited the pressure and there it is

Zahavi dropping deep into midfield to get a touch and then pushing forward is giving us issues

TAKE THAT BACK he only gets injured in training

Happy to sit in on a test call to provide feedback on volumes if you think that will help.