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  1. 33 minutes ago, pash said:

    If this doesn't start and end with a demand to disband Gate 4 then I'm unsubscribing!!!!

    I wanted to do it, but the big boss overruled me 😜

  2. Good to win even if we didn't play well. Nice to respond to the three league defeats with three wins heading into the Christmas break. We still aren't at our best, hopefully the results help our overall play improve. I hope heading into the new year Ingason becomes a nailed down starter, I was surprised he didn't start today. 

  3. God Kosovo again we've played them 4 times for 1 win and 3 draws, I'd be expecting at least one more draw. 

    I really don't think this will be straight forward, Northern Ireland will be tough. They aren't a big name but UK teams always run hard and are highly physical, something Greece don't excel in. They also had a similar record to us in WC qualifying, finishing with 9 points in a group that contained Italy and Switzerland (comparable to Spain and Sweden) and Bulgaria (comparable if not better than Kosovo/Georgia) and of course we know about our poor recent performances against Kosovo.

    Topping the group is the goal, but it's going to be tough and we'll need to be at our best. 

    Format is interesting, first 4 games will be played between June 2-14th. It will serve as a mini-tournament, in terms of the team being together for a few weeks and having 4 games so close together. Good opportunity for the team gel and show us some good football. Of course we need a coach first..... 

  4. Looking at his CV it isn't overly impressive, he last coached in Japan over a year ago. His career in Europe has been average, to put it kindly. His best stint was at Basel but that was 2009-2011. That doesn't mean he wouldn't be a better NT manager or he wouldn't click with the team, just the name doesn't inspire much confidence. 

    Unfortunately that is the reality for the Ethniki, these are the types of names we will attract. Journeymen in the coaching world who have never really cut it at club level. Of course money solves this problem to a large extent, but we know the budget isn't enough to attract an accomplished manager. 

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  5. You're on the road 😍

    2nd half just kicked off, let's get this W

    EDIT: Reading around, there's a report coming out of Romania that after this game Lucescu is going to quit and take over the Romanian National Team. I know reports came out awhile back that the Romanian Federation approached him and he apparently rejected them but I would hate for this current report to be true and for as to be searching for a new coach again...

  6. Taylor out for 4-6 weeks and El Kaddouri out for 6-8 weeks. El Kaddouri will be cutting it fine to be fit for the Conference League knock-out round, Taylor should well and truly be back by then.

  7. 2nd half was better than the first, still far from convincing. Was hoping we would play ourselves into some form but that didn't happen. Regardless we did what we had to do and have qualified for the knockout stage of a European competition for the first time in 5 years. Nice to have some European football to look forward to in the New Year. 

  8. Not confident an out of form PAOK can hit 5 past anyone atm. Hopefully we win and win well, there are no guarantees that Copenhagen will go all out against Slovan. I'm expecting they rotate and Slovan will get a result. 

    I think we'll need to win by at least 3, but who knows it may not be enough. An early goal in the first 10 minutes would be massive for confidence. 

  9. You would assume that Lucescu and George Savvidis have moved on from whatever issue they had in the past, otherwise it's unlikely Lucescu would've returned. If George does head back to Thessaloniki and take up some day-to-day role, it'll be interesting to see if the peace remains.

    I take all his cryptic Instagram posts to be more about transfers and players coming in during the January transfer window but we shall see. Ironically enough, IIRC that was their past issue. George started brining players who Razvan had not approved of and the straw that broke the camel's back was the decision to let both Canas and Shakhov leave. 

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  10. An aging team which has completely lost its confidence is what I put it down to. A win would do wonders for the teams confidence but the issue is how the heck are we going to get that win. We have had some good performances this season, so we know we are capable of much better. 

    Next season a lot of the current team will have cleared out and our average age I suspect will drop. Regardless it is fair that we expect better results and performances as we should be beating Atromitos and Ionikos.

    I fear we aren't far away from a coaching change, which is never the way as has been discussed to death on this board. The saving grace maybe Lucescu's massive contract. 

    I don't know how but we just need to qualify in Europe, the fans (actual fans not the organised ones) need something to look forward to. It will also help keep the howling media away, even if only for a few days...

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