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vs MATCHUP: P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki - A.E.L. Kallonis COMPETITION: Superleague - Round 27 DATE: 20-March-2016 TIME: 17:15 GR (15:15 GMT, 10:15 CDT, 02:15 AEDT) CITY/STADIUM: Thessaloniki - Toumba Stadium (Capacity: 28,703) REFEREES: Dimitris Karantonis (Imathia) - Nikolaos Karaisaridis (Pieria), Antonis Diplaras (Karditsa) TELEVISION: Nova Sports (Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Bulgaria), Laola1.TV (Worldwide except Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Bulgaria) P.A.O.K. - Kalloni history: Superleague 2014-2015: 1:1 (Pereyra) - Attendance: no fans 2013-2014: 2:1 (Vukic, Koulouris) - Attendance: 8,458 GAMES: 2 WINS: 1 TIES: 1 LOSSES: 0

Agree with BostonDeath on this one. 35k should be the max.

He said that before the results of his physical were known.

Tzavellas stands out this season, because of the lack of better players in the CB position. His only good attribute is his passion, which unfortunately is also one of his big liability. He is flirting with a red card in every game. His contract end in 2017, and he will stay until then. I agree with pash that he should play at his natural position as LB. I would keep Vitor too. even if it is as a backup CB. Unfortunately PAOK might not have much to say in this matter, as his contract ends in June, and it is reported that he is not willing to renew his contract.

Exactly, and let's not forget that Lubos Michel was in Shaktar Donetsk's front office before joining PAOK.

Ivic is experimenting with a 4-3-3 formation. The 3-5-2 formation was not possible for the average players that PAOK has on its roster currently. Anyway, Skondras and Golasa have also been ruled out for Saturday. With that in mind I present you my lineup for the game: --------------------- Vellidis ------------------- Kitsiou --- Vitor --- Malezas --- Tzavellas --- Kace -------- Tziolis ------- Charisis -- --- Mystakidis ------------------- Pelkas --- ----------------- Athanasiadis ---------------

Yes the game against Panthrakikos was the breaking point. I think a decision was allready made a while back that Tudor would not be the coach next season. This was probably decided at the same time as the Arnesen firing. Tudor was kept for strategic reasons. ivic is also a temporary coach. Just like Georgiadis use to be. I am sure Michel is allready looking for a new coach, and rumors are that he has held a secret meeting with Lucescu, Xanthi's current coach.

Lets just call him Chatzi from now on.

Aris is not allowed. They don't want teams that travel to their games with tractors in the Xanthi Superleague.

It's probably just trolling, but Xanthi wants a Superlegue with 12 teams without the big 4:

Klaus only has 6 cards and is available, although I don't think it makes any difference. Missing the game are Glykos, Jairo, Rodriguez, Chatziisaias, Mak, Berbatov, Cimirot Panaitolikos's main threat is their dekari Warda, so if can put a player such as Kace on him, we can neutralize him. The key player is their keeper and ex-PAOK player Kyriakidis. The few games I have seen Agrinio this season, he has been keeping them in the game. It will be interesting what Ivic comes up with as a lineup.

I would add Glykos and Skondras to that list, but would keep Kitsiou, Vitor, Jairo and Pelkas as backaups. As for Koulouris on pash's list, he had his chances. He is nothingspecial. Set him free so he can move on in Popovic's steps.

Savvidis sacked Tudor right after the game with Panthrakikos. There was actually a disagreement on when to announce his firing. Lubos Michel wanted to have the announcement made right after the game, while other within PAE wanted to wait until the meeting between the owners concluded. Things got easier when Savvidis started bragging about Tudor's fate during the meeting yesterday. The senile Theodoridis and the red medisa machine just took advantage of the situation for their own benefit. Tudor's fate was decided long time ago. Actually at the same time as when Arnesen's fate was decided. he was being kept as coach for strategic (in Savvidis's mind) reasons.

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Scznaucner is his assistant coach. Another lost season. :tdown: Savvidis is at PAOK four years. In each of those years the coach gets fired in March.

If we don't win this game I predict that we will not make the playoffs.

Well Ivan only gave him enough money to buy players such as Cimirot, Sabo, etc. On top of that he also had to pay off few veterans so they would go away.

Yes, he is not to be involved with Greek soccer. :lol: And one day before the meeting the Undersecretary of Sport is now calling for the owners of the Big 4 to sit down together and work things out among themselves. Never mind that there are 12 other teams that take part in the competition.

The legendary pano:

More bad news for PAOK. Chatziisaias is out for 6 weeks and Cimirot for 4 weeks after medical tests today. Rodrigues appears to be ok, but there are still 5 days before the game.

Tomorrow all the Superleague team owners are meeting in Athens to discuss the future of Greek soccer. For the first time Savvidis will take part in person. Onthe other hand it was reported that Marinakis will not be attending.

Interesting how stories like that always come out after somebody has been fired. Never before they are hired.

vs MATCHUP: Panaitolikos Agrinio - P.A.O.K. Thessaloniki COMPETITION: Superleague - Round 26 DATE: 12-March-2016 TIME: 19:30 GR (17:30 GMT, 11:30 CST, 04:30 AEDT next day) CITY / STADIUM: Agrinio - Panaitolikos Stadium(Capacity: 7,500) REFEREES: Tasos Sidiropoulos (Dodecanese) - Konstantinos Pontikis (Preveza), Christos Magianis (Arta) TELEVISION: Nova Sports (Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Bulgaria), Antenna Satellite (USA/Canada), Antenna Pacific Australia) Panaitolikos - PAOK History: SUPERLEAGUE 2014-2015: 0:1 (Mak-p) - Attendance: 3,361 2013-2014: 2:0 - Attendance: no fans 2011-2012: 1:1 (Cirilo) - Attendance: 5,401 ALPHA ETHNIKI (Amateur/Semi-Professional) 1976-1977: 1:2 (Orfanos 2) - Attendance: ? 1975-1976: 0:2 (Sarafis-p, Kermanidis) - Attendance: ? The famous game where the Panaitolikos attacked the referee Rammos and cut his ear off. PANHELLENIC CHAMPIONSHIP (Amateur) 1954-1955: 0:2 (Gentzis, Margaritis) - Attendance: ? GAMES: 6 WINS: 4 TIES: 1 LOSSES: 1

Normally I would agree with you guys, but let's face it, Tudor has been kept on board until the end of the season, so he can be the final scapegoat. It is evident that PAOK fans don't have patience for experiments, and as a result this 3-year plan fizzled out quite easily after six months. Not surprising, since Savvidis does not really have the knowledge to run a soccer team, and he pretty much gave up and decided to take the easy way out by firing Arnesen. I think the one big mistake by Arnesen was that he did not bring in a more experienced coach to start the building process. Tudor's major mistake was that during the whole season he has not learned anything from mistakes he did early in the season. Just take today's game for example. He knew quite well how Panthrakikos plays and how they did damage to us in the first game at Toumba. Today was exact copy of that game. Actually it was even worse since we lost to a team that is basically relegated.