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I'm predicting a 3-1 tomorrow for Oly... too optimistic?

A PAOK game in Toumba, televised on a well known US TV station. Say it ain't so. I hope they have another large banner about Makedonia to provide the neutral watchers with a bit of a history lesson lol.

Tense match. Warda is fantastic. Toumba is gonna be nuts next week.

I can't believe I'm watchin PAOK on TNT. Pame dikefale!!

How do you fancy their chances vs Burnley or Basakshehir?

Lazaros is an absolute beast

My predicted standings for this season are: 1. PAOK: most talented squad, great fan support, it's their year. 2. Olympiakos: re-tooled the team significantly this year, expect them to show out 3. AEK: their revival has been fantastic over these past few years, but their personnel losses have been too many, imo. 4. Asteras Tripolis: solid squad 5. Aris: probably more-so wishful thinking on my part, but I think they will make a splash and have been doing well this preseason. Relegated teams: 15. Lamia 16. Apollon Smyrni

Etsi bravo! Let's hope they can pack the house next week.

Very unfortunate. There needs to be better representation of teams in Makedonia besides PAOK and Aris

Great results so far. Realistically, what's your expectation for Aris this year? Is a Euro qualification spot possible

What's going on with Kastoria? Anyone think they'll ever make it back to the Protathlima? Lol

Bravo PAOKara... would be wonderful to see two Greek teams in the champions league group stage this year. What do y'all reckon the odds will be?

What type of players are involved in that tourney? Is it mostly just youth players from professional clubs?

Does Aris have any players that are current or future NT material?

Today there was a high school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas. At least 8 dead, possibly more. Perpetrator was 17 year old Dimitrios Pagourtzis, a student at the school. There are Facebook photos of his circling around the internet which show a jacket he owned with communist sickle, german cross, and Cthulu pins. I'm not sure what the answer is, but I sure know it isn't "thoughts and prayers"

Well, on the one hand it's important to not get caught up in the accomplishments of those who lived 2000 years in the past, but this is all just a fun exercise anyway and gives us a better glimpse into the who the pre-historic and ancient Greeks were as a people and a culture. It's more of an academic fascination for me than anything I suppose and not something born out of genetic supremacy. That being said, I wonder how much guess work goes into these and how similar things would turn out if you gave the same skull to 5 different dxperts for a reconstruction. I know for some things like the skin tone, they approximate; who remembers that bust of King Tut's mom a few months back and some people were crying over "white washing?" I believe that, that in that, they had based the skin pigment off of what the average Egyptian woman looks like in the 21st century. Other things, like the nose and ears, are made out of cartilage.. so how would they be able to faithfully recreate that? I haven't read into this stuff so I'm a bit in the dark on it.

How did Aris get to be associated with the bulldog? haha

Bravo stous paixtes

Wow OFI has really been on a goal scoring tear these past few months. I wonder if they can keep up that kind of form next year...

BTW, did you guys known Nikola Gruevski's paternal grandfather, Nikola Grouios, was from a xorio on the Greek side of the border and died fighting in the Greco-Italian war? Lol you can't make this stuff up. Some politician who was running against him a few years back visited the xorio and spoke to the old mayor who corroborated the story. There's even a monument with his name on it.

Ok so, to my PAOK friends here, what do you all think would have been an acceptable solution/punishment as a response to Savvidis' actions in the AEK-PAOK game? Just curious.

Yes the medieval Balkans were certainly a hodge podge of ethnicities and the Greek government of the early 20th century no doubt suppressed some of the ntopio Slavic languages, however the Skops take this to the extreme and talk about some non-existent genocide in Makedonia. They would have you think that no Greeks lived in Makedonia prior to its annexation in 1913 but that just isn't the case; people like Emmanouil Pappas and Dimitris Karatasos were trying to re-unify the land w/ Greece proper in the preceding decades, not to mention the heavy concentration of Greeks in and around Thessaloniki as has already been mentioned.

You don't think there's a justification for the punishment that was doled out? PAOK were the best team this year on the pitch, but Savvidis crossed a line that should not have been crossed, irrespective of the poor decision made the referee to disallow the goal vs AEK. On one hand, I agree with you and hope that Savvidis' penalty is reduced given that he's been a great investor in both PAOK and Thessaloniki. On the other, actions have consequences and there needs to be some accountability.

Whom would say is a deserving, in form defensive mid that hasn't been called up that deserves it over Tzioli and Taxi? Not at all disagreeing, just wondering. Greece seems to be paper thin at that position.

I just translated it on twitter.. seems like he's saying that Bakakis' play, specifically the well placed crossed on the goal to Karelis, makes Skibbe's decision of starting Maniatis at RB in the first leg vs Croatia unacceptable and the Greek team paid the price for such a bad decision.