Nea Bafra

not having seen a lot of him, but word is Avraam Papadopoulos is being released by his Chinese club. Surely we could use him for a couple of seasons while our younger guys develop. Thoughts?

thanks for the enlightenment, we hadn't realised this until you pointed it out

Welcome aboard Frappe, Metsovo is one of the loveliest towns in Greece. It's especially beautiful in winter.

winless for the rest of the season

How dis hip hop? RnB, maybe? Soul, yes. Hip Hop, No.

i wish i had hair to let my soul glow

i think he means rodrigues

it seems the mob gives more leeway to someone who can strut and growl and yell and look passionate, yet the best coach we have had since Santos we crucified because he was a nice guy and seemed like your papou [boloni]

If you're gonna close the book after one game, then shut the door on the whole squad and buy 25 players next year. I agree with OlympicHellas, he should be playing every week and I don't think that he's the kind of guy who can take us to whatever 'next level' people think we should be at, however [now stay with me on this one] do I think he is better or has the potential to be better than some of the plodders or guys like Pelkas who run around like headless chooks through our midfield? Yes. Is it that far fetched to think that it might be worth giving the kid 3 games [seeing as Sabo has had 10 or so] to really find out if he's got it? I'm not restricting this to just Antonis, you can add guys like Mystakidis, Charissis etc to the mix, all these guys have played under 10 games. Play them now and find out if they are any good, if not toss them for next season and get together a proper squad. We currently have 30 senior squad players at the club and 14 out on loan, what a waste of $$$, we should be able to get by on 35 all together. This season looked good to start off but has turned into a bourdello fast.

so what you are saying is that we don't have a single PAOK standard player in the squad, because not a soul currently employed by the club in a playing capacity meets all those requirements. I didn't say he was some young gun, but he is capable and how do you compare someone who only trains to those guys who play? you can't. when you put together a squad you can't make it full of right backs and wingers with noone to distribute and you can't make it full of one paced plodders like tziolis klaus and berbatov. you need a mix and right now our team sorely lacks any creative spark or decent passing. I believe antonis offers a point of difference that's it. you don't fork over cash for a car just to not drive it. even if it is a sh1te box saravalo. if that's the case savidis may as well just do this...

it's the difference between his best and worst. huge

This is my point, if you don't play him, you'll never know, then it's just a pure waste.

I've seen people on here comment about a lot of players 'they aren't PAOK standard players' please tell me WTF is a PAOK quality player. Antonis might not be the type of player who is going to dominate the midfield and win games off his own boot, but he's not exactly being kept out of the lineup by that kind of player. We keep rotating the same 4 players through the midfield and expecting different results. The one thing Antonis has got going for him that most of our players don't have is very good decision making and a range of passing that others don't. Does he have speed? Hell no. Does he have a run all day engine? Probably not seing as he's been sitting on his butt for most of the season. But tell me, if a player had all of those things would they be at PAOK? I think our season is at the stage where we may as well work out in a match scenario who is capable of staying and improving and who isn't. There are players who improve to be capable at every level they go to and some players who will never reach a level. But if you don't test them in the furnace of a match, how will you know? I use the example of someone like Mile Jedinak, what did he have going for him when he left Australia? work ethic and determination, apart from that he could tackle a bit and kick lumps out of people. He kicked around Turkey and then landed at Crystal Palace, captained them to promotion and then to a top half finish in the Premier League, when he left Australia I wouldn't have thought he was PAOK standard but we'd be buggered if we could sign him now.

the fact you are hoping Jairo is back says a whole heap about where the expectations for the season have gone

in fairness though I don't know that we have gone two games this year without an injury, suspension or just outright vlakies from at least one player.

what a clusterfark of a season

Suits

I can see us drawing this game 2-2 and going out on away goals.

No mention of Antonis there in either the injured or the players taken with them. The australian olympic qualifiers have been over now by a few weeks and I imagine he's back.

Boston, happy to be your imaginary southern hemisphere talent scout if you get the gig

Oh and Altona East Phoenix here in Melbourne

Hey pash, why does the heading have Atromitos in it. I hope we are ganging up on the gavroi

Imaginary chest hair here in Austria

I want it to match the 60s one. full blown V neck halfway down to my belly button. Gonna grow me some sideburns to go with it

and the byzantine's took it from the hittites Can I say we forgot to list AEK? There is also Erzurumspor in Turkey