La Mendel

Why giannoulis???? Schip ought to be certified aint he?

F*** Barkas & van Schip

its mind blowing

We are practically out now.

Torontoblue is right, these guys are simply not talented enough. Some of the new boys tried to impress the coach (first of all the newbies playing in the Netherlands like Pavlidis) but this was a sorry production.

This performance was unlike (some late Skibbe teams) not incredibly bad, only hopelessly gray. And unfortunately, Finland was really better in the second half.

Our performance: Barkas 6 - Torosidis 5 (Bakakis 5), Manolas 6, Sokratis 5.5, Stafylidis 5 - Bouchalakis 5, Vrousai 5.5, Kourbelis 5.5 - Masouras 5, Koulouris 4.5 (Pavlidis 5.5), Kolovos 4.5 (Pelkas 5). A wholly mediocre production. Defense was okay in the first half. Then they conceded a penalty. In midfield we missed Zeca IMO. In the attacking third, we did nothing, except for some flashes from Vrousai and Pavlidis.

another bad shot of Lod

thank god Lod failed to deliver a proper shot

Kanerva looks like Anastasiadis

Masouras almost scored, a good idea of our right back

Mitroglou will be called up when he will have some game time under his belt (the opinion of Van T Schip)

F*** this s%$#!, not again

Not the best news: Pukki of Finland is in terrific form, he has scored 5 goals in 4 games for Norwich.

I would have been so glad if we could have qualify for the Euros. Now we can watch the t' Schip disaster. (I hope the players prove me wrong, but for the moment I dont trust neither them nor the head coach fully.)

Best news so far.

I mean, there is a famous candidate who would be a not altogether bad choice (Magath is known for his strictness, he would instill some discipline into the team) but they choose a relatively unknown coach because he is cheaper. Dammit, their forerunners met Rehhagels financial demands in 2001 (his demands were quite high, I guess) and the Ethniki profited a lot from this decision. Why cannot Grammenos and his men think reasonably?

Agonasport also says: "The well-known Felix Magath, ex-coach of Konstantinos Mitroglou at Fulham, was considered a candidate by the EPO but his financial demands are too high." That is EPO all over.

Thomas Doll is a bad joke. He is horrible. I cant believe EPO is so incompetent.

I wasnt clear enough: I mean the candidates mentioned in an article on Agonasport: Di Biagio, Paciencia, Iachini, Jimenez, Dellas, and Ouzounidis, and Van Schip.

I quite agree. Among these candidates, Manolo Jimenez seems to be the ablest. He has some experience in Greek football.

Finally!

That would exclude the presence of Kourbelis, Kolovetsios, Bouzoukis, Kyriakidis, Fetfatzidis, Siopis, Maniatis and a bunch of players but the majority of them like Kourbelis, Kolovetsios, Dioudis are wholly dispensable. Maniatis is a good defensive midfielder, but perhaps we can do without him.

Maybe this could help now. Stick to Olympiacos/PAOK/AEK/Atromitos players. I dont think others could contribute much. Even some of these are not of much use (think of Bakasetas only, he was an AEK player and has always been hopeless).

Did you see Bakasetas was sold to Alanyaspor (team of Tzavellas)? I hope he wont get a call-up while he is playing for such an average Turkish team.