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Bring on the Wild. This will be a tough series for the Hawks.

Yianko and mcp4 welcome. Nice to see both of you again. Now if we could only track down Dikefalomania and Blackhell among others.

Possible lineup by Georgiadis according to reports: ------------------------- Itandje ------------------------ Konstantinidis - Costa - Tzavellas - Skondras Golasa -------- Kace --------- Noboa ------- Mak ----------- Klaus -------------- Koulouris -----------

Bajewy, the first time I visited Ziaka in 1984 bunch of us, including my parents made it to the top of Orliakas. We had one of my pappou's brothers to guide us to the top. He knew the mountain and the area like the palm of his hand from his experience fighting the Italians and Germans during WW2 and then again during the civil war. It took us about half a day to reach the top. What a great view of the whole area from the top of the mountain. Speaking of Orliakas, one of of our xorianos and a family member wanted to build an observatory at the top of the mountain. He is a Senior Scientist at the University of Chicago and was part of many NASA missions since the 1960's. His name is Thanasis Economou. You can read more about him here: http://news.uchicago.edu/profile/thanasis-economou and here: http://www.panhellenicscholarships.org/thanasis-economou.php Eventually with cooperation from Greek authorities he got the go ahead to proceed with the project. He succeeded in securing funding from the European Commission for the project, but once it was evident that money would be coming in, the Greek government wanted to take over the project. Since then the project is on hold, and I doubt it will ever get build.

Deja vu going back to game 2 of the series concerning last night's game. In the span of 2 and a half minutes we gave the Preds the win on a silver platter. Defensive lapses and bad penalty sealed the deal. Game 6 of the series now becomes the pivotal game. Hope we can take it and finish the series. If it goes to game 7, anything can happen.

Nice to see you Itale. Hope more old-timers will find us here. I'd like to see Yiankos make an appearance among others.

I have strange feeling we will not win this game. I actually see us losing on Sunday. We shall see.

You would hope we narrowed the technical director search to couple prospects. I also heard a rumor that one of the prospective candidates will be at Toumba for the Giannina game.

The Greek volleyball federation already has us losing the second game on Sunday. Bet you house on a 3:1 Olympiakos victory. :lol: http://www.volleyleague.gr/

Well his two sons are the heads of the Dimera group based in Cyprus. Dimera on paper is the owner of PAE PAOK and it appears that Georgios Savvidis is being groomed by Ivan to take over the team, specially after the team debt is paid off by the end of the month.

Looks like the refs changed their mind and the games will go on. In other Greek soccer corruption news, several people were called by the prosecutor to explain themselves concerning the Olympiakos - Veroia (3:0) game from last season. Allegedly at half-time while the score was 0:0, an unnamed Veroia official came to the Veroia dressing room and told the players that the game has to finish 3:0 in favor of Olympiakos. Of interest is the fact that at half time bets for 3 million Euro were placed for the exact score.

Good start for PAOK in the first game of the finals defeating Olympiakos 3:1 sets.

Kenan Bargan (Veroia) and Silva Cleyton (Xanthi) have been linked to PAOK, with Bargan apparently having a hand shake agreement with PAOK.

Looks like the Greek referees might strike this weekend. They have announced that if the investigations involving refs does not end they will not show up for the games. In other Greek football news, the Greek government is going ahead with new laws concerning football in particular and sports in general. if it is voted in current form, UEFA and FIFA will expel Greek teams from all international competition. Olympiakos is already putting pressure on the parliament not to vote for this law in its current form. Panathinaikos who has been advocating string measures seems to be changing their stance, with Alafouzos saying that he will leave the team if Greek teams are expelled from Europe.

First game of the final against Olympiakos tomorrow at 20:00 Greek time.

It was another thriller last night/early morning. The game actually ended at 1:30 am in the morning local time. Darling was great once again, and should get the start again.

He didn't really have enough games to prove himself in my opinion. He did make a mistake on one of the goals against Panthrakikos, and since that game he has been benched by Georgiadis. Rumors are that Georgiadis does not like him and it appears he might be history with the team. I think the reason is that he came in under Anastasiadis.

Costa was injured, but should be ready by Sunday. I think your first quartet is the most possible setup.

Vitor, Rat, and Papadopoulos will miss the game due to red/yellow cards. I'd like to see the defensive lineup in this game.

vs MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki ? PAS Giannina COMPETITION: Superleague - Round 32 DATE: 26-April-2015 TIME: 15:00 GR (12:00 GMT, 07:00 CDT, 22:00 AEST next day) CITY / STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: TELEVISION: Nova Sports (Greece), Sport Plus (USA/Canada) PAOK FC vs PAS Giannina History: Superleague 2013-2014: 2:1 (Stoch, Lucas) - Attendance: 11,494 (playoffs) 2012-2013: 0:1 - Attendance: 8,088 (playoffs) 2012-2013: 2:0 (Georgiadis, Katsouranis) - Attendance: 9.758 2011-2012: 1:2 (Papazoglou) - Attendance: 9.587 2009-2010: 2:0 (Lino, Arabatzis) - Attendance: 13,239 Alpha Ethniki (Professional) 2000-2001: 2:3 (Kafes, Spasic) - Attendance: 7,065 1990-1991: 4:1 (Hassan, Borbokis, Karageorgiou, Magdi) - Attendance: 2,211 1986-1987: 3:1 (Papaioannou, Iordanidis, Baniotis) - Attendance: 8,155 1985-1986: 4:2 (Skartados 2, Mavromatis, Iordanidis)) - Attendance: 5,303 1983-1984: 0:0 - Attendance: 5,061 1982-1983: 4:1 (Dimopoulos 2, Kostikos, Vasilakos) - Attendance: 5,628 1981-1982: 2:1 (Guerino, Triantafyllidis) - Attendance: 9,553 1980-1981: 1:1 (Kostikos) - Attendance: 8,528 1979-1980: 2:1 (Kostikos, Vasilakos) - Attendance: 7,809 Alpha Ethniki (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1978-1979: 5:0 (Guerino 2, Kermanidis 2, Sarafis) - Attendance: ?? 1977-1978: 1:1 (Orfanos) - Attendance: ?? 1976-1977: 1:1 (??) - Attendance: ?? 1975-1976: 1:0 (??) - Attendance: ?? 1974-1975: 4:1 (??) - Attendance: ?? GAMES: 19 WINS: 12 TIES: 4 LOSSES: 3

The main thing is to keep as big distance from the 5th place team, so we get as many points as possible in the playoffs. If the playoffs started today we would have 2 points, same as Panathinaikos. Unless Panathinaikos self-destructs we will have the same points going into the playoffs. What other teams do we want in the playoffs? I would prefer PAS Giannina over Atromitos. Looks like Tripoli is losing form. They are losing 4:0 at Veroia.

Andre Ayew from Marseille is the latest rumor.

Easy win (3:0) for us. On the way to the final where we will play Olympiakos for the title.

Easy win against the Bucks in the first game of the playoffs. This should be an easy series for the Bulls.

Convincing win yesterday. I see this ending up in 5 games. Six tops. I'd go with Darling in next game again.