Nea Bafra
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I wasn't sure where to post this so I figured this was as good a place as any as it's generally about the club.
I've just gotten back to Melbourne after 2 and a bit weeks in Greece[by the way, how fracking cold is it?], a great time was had by all and there were plenty of frappedes and general beach going.
We also spent a few days in Thessaloniki [we stayed at Hotel Nikopolis and I can recommend it highly, great pool, service and you regularly see some of the PAOK players there as the team uses it as a base before all games]. On the last day my wife asks if I'm going to go to Toumba and grab some gear like I usually do. It's Saturday so I thought, I'll check and make sure the shop's open on the weekend and head in, get some shirts for the 3kids and sign myself up as a member if I can and support the club.
Check the website, open 9-5, sweet, It's 12 in the afternoon, I let the kids play in the pool for a few more hours then get them out of the pool and drive into Toumba with the eldest [she's sports mad and was pretty pumped]. Get to Toumba and there's at least a hundred kids and their families getting on buses to go to some sports carnival. Bedlam in the car park. I squeeze [bTW, what is it with Greeks not being able to park their cars, they all drive small sh1tboxes and can't park to save themselves?] the car into one of the last spots and walk up to the shop. CLOSED, shutters down not a sign of anyone around.
Hmmmmm not good. Maybe they're closed so that the kids and families and buses an gather freely in the car park. I'll double check the website, yep 9-5 opening hours. It's the same at the store in the city, 9-5 I'll head in there as it's only a 5-10 minute drive. Go in there and CLOSED with a sign on the window saying opening hours are 10-3.
WTF you dipsh1t mofos, how farking hard is it to edit the farking text on your website to show the right farking hours. I was going to spend at least 200 Euro on merchandise alone plus whatever a membership costs. Now that's gone. I'm sure it doesn't mean much to the people who run the show but I'm gutted. Last time I was there the shop was closed for construction.
For all the changes that seem to be occurring on the pitch it's the same old m*****es off it.
Sorry for the long rant but I just had to get it off my chest.
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Got an article from Themistocles Cala on the main site of Phantis:
Igor Tudor learns the PAOK footballing reality the hard way
"There are many pieces of advice one could give to someone considering becoming the new manager of PAOK. Perhaps the most obvious advice would be ? don't do it. "
Show him some love...
There's a main site?
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Yianko, Ninis has probably regained his form and deserves to be back with the Ethniki. He's not the player that was injured and awful when at PAOK. He's the best midfielder Greece has at the moment.
and there is our biggest problem
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Adding Medunjanin to Kace and Noboa [he wasn't a lona player was he?] is a good start insofar as getting the kind of possession dominating midfield we need. Next step build the defence, we have been too easy to defeat for too long.
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I have a knack for googling things in the most roundabout way possible.
"ok google give me uefa ranks or something + naked wags"
fixed for you
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Ok so fingers crossed first leg is at home and I can go to the game, will be in Thessaloniki on the day, a bright ray in a s%$#! end to the season
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He was a brilliant player and part of the Boca team along with Juan Roman Riquelme and Martin Palermo that dismantled the Real Madrid galcticos mark I in the Club World Cup.
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that hair though
so jealous
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I'd be happy with a team that has energy, cohesion and can actually string 5 passes together. We always look so random.
Lately every time we turn a couple of decent passes into our normal shambles I remember the away match at Tottenham and think 'it can't be that hard to do it against teams like Kalloni can it' and then proceed to throw my mouse across the room.
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The reason is we keep hiring average managers. Donis and Anastasiadis are fine if you want to come 2nd to 4th. To become considerably better, we need a better manager. We tried to do the right thing with Huub but it didn't work out.
At the end of the day the only decent managers we've had in the last 15 years are Bajevic and Santos. And they did well despite having no transfer budget and constant money problems.
You could throw Boloni in there too, impressed me from a limited sample.
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I didn't know if I should put this in this thread or the transfers thread, but I thought as it encompasses more than just transfer policy it should go in here.
Here in Australia, despite being quite an insanely dedicated nation of sports consumers we only have to my knowledge one sports radio station and as such it differs a bit from what you get in Greece and the US, it regularly gets quite serious about issues like team building, general men's health and the science and psychology behind sport.
Late last year there was an extensive interview with a former Wallaby [Australian rugby representative] who had undertaken a 2 year research study into team building. By team building I don't mean bonding between team mates and whether or not they are going to punch on in the changing rooms after a game but the composition of your playing staff and list management. Specifically what they found was that the best results were derived by those teams who made minimal changes to their playing staff at any one time.
One of the examples they cited was the NFL where team lists are blown up and turned over at a huge rate and that not surprisingly the number of playoff teams can change from one season to the next by up to 50%, yet the teams who keep as much of their core intact from season to season [New England, Seattle, Denver] remain perennial playoff teams while others who go about hoovering up boatloads of free agents and look great on paper wallow on the periphery.
The other examples they used were Manchester United under Sir Alex and the current Barcelona setup which would only buy one or two players per season but ones that were a direct and obvious upgrade on what they had or replacing a retiree.
That's why I personally think blowing up the team and filling it with a bunch of mercenaries will lead to disaster. Obviously we aren't going to get a series of superstars in during one transfer window, but what we can do is buy 3 decent players this summer who are demonstrably better than what we have to be supplemented by the guys already there. I'm thinking a left back, a defensive midfielder and a left winger as first priority. Eventually inside 3 transfer windows you would have overhauled almost your entire starting XI with the aim being that our current first XI becomes our second XI unless they lift their game to outperform the new blood.
This however would only work if we could hire a manager/coach that we stick with. It's no surprise that our most consistent era was under Santos because he was given time and the players new that he wans't going anywhere in a hurry.
Apologies for the long post.
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i went to the carlton v collingwood game with a bunch of my carlton mates. i almost felt sorry for them, almost.
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the parallels between PAOK and Newcastle are uncanny.
President who has cleared the debt........ check
Failure to make any signings during the summer transfer period or even longer......... check
Panic scattergun buying during the winter transfer period....... check
The only difference is that most of the other superleague clubs are even more poorly managed and we get away with it, it's toughter in the premier league and Newcastle were at serious risk.
Between PAOK, Newcastle and Collingwood it's been a s%$#! year to watch football.
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yep, and imagine how he feels going from scoring at the nou camp to driving past the katsikia on the way to playing against xanthi or PAS
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Can't see us winning this in the form we are in.
1-1 hoping for a draw
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Can't see us winning this in the form we are in.
1-1 hoping for a draw
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Anyone else here play Football Manager? Maybe if we email the club screenshots of the squad we can assemble for PAOK in game then we can win the TD job, we couldn't do a worse job than Vryzas.
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the new TD really needs to be sorted out. not sure what the reason is for taking so long. Have the balls to make the appointment already.
I'm guessing there's noone suitable in Greece and we can't afford anyone from Russia.
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It's so that people like me can squeeze in a game at the start of my holidays in Greece and still get some warm weather.
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positive stuff so far, with no real cutting edge.
looking surprisingly solid at the back
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I can't understand why a club who clearly shouldn't be paying exorbitant wages to guys with either attitude or injury issues doesn't try and mine leagues whose players would jump at the chance to play in Europe. Looking close to home there are probably at least half a dozen Australian players who would make the team and at least bust their hump for the club.
It's not like we don't have history with Australian players .
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it's not going well
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Transfer News And Rumors - Summer 2015
in PAOK FC
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I know it's pie in the sky stuff, but......
CAMBIASSO
he's the kind of model professional that would come and put in for 2-3 seasons. Yes, he is 34 but just played 31 games last year for Leicester in a far more taxing league than ours, would give a great example to the young midfield we are building and you could eaily rotate the younger guys around him.
Sell Noboa if he doesn't want to stay and use that cash to bring in a central defender.