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  1. Olli strikes again. TPS is trailing 1-6 after 2 periods, but Juolevi with the only goal for TPS so far.
  2. He just assisted on the second goal of the night
  3. Juolevi scored the OT winner in today's game against Ässät. Looks like he's getting comfortable.
  4. That's already his second assist of the night. His first point came on a goal from Petrus Palmu just a minute earlier.
  5. 2 Assists and his first goal so far this evening
  6. I would have been fine with that 3 years ago.
  7. Jimmy Graham is dropping a lot of balls this season. I hope he doesn't get re-signed. Luke Willson can do what Graham's doing this season just as well.
  8. Would you consider becoming either a fan of Bayern or Schalke? Preferably Bayern, Schalke somehow manages to mess everything up without you. I hope the Canucks can make it in a couple of years.
  9. They do have quite a talented generation in the pipe. But that's just it. Klinsmann tried to take away the old guard and introduce the new generation around Pulisic, Brooks (Wolfsburg), McKennie (Schalke), maybe Hyndman, although I haven't seen much of him lately. These guys are all talented and have been in Europe for a couple of years at least and know how to play modern football. But they're young. They're going to make mistakes. And you'll have to give them the benefit of the doubt, otherwise they won't be able to get better. Sometimes it just takes a bit longer. Germany had the downswing in the late 90s/ early 2000s. Somehow we always managed to qualify, but the results in the tournaments were disastrous with the only exception of WC 2002. But that was a lot of luck. I think we played Paraguay, the USA and South Korea in the knockout stages. But they turned the whole youth and coaching systems around and voilá... 14 years later we're world champion.
  10. Yeah, the times of world class players in the Netherlands is over. The last one in Robben retired yesterday from international football. I grew up watching Bergkamp, Davids, Kluivert, van der Sar, Overmars, Sneijder, Cocu, the de Boers and so on. Not much left of the glory of yesteryear. But there's always a next "golden generation"
  11. USA fail to qualify for the World Cup. They can thank Bruce Arena for that. He always complained about Klinsmann's euro-centric nominations and line-ups (yeah, cause they've been doing so bad). But the US would have been even worse if it wasn't for Pulisic and Wood who play... wait for it... in Europe. The MLS just doesn't have the quality.
  12. Just wanted to note that Syria leads Australia after a draw in the first leg for the WC qualification. But Australia just scored the equalizer.
  13. You don't see a difference in deciding not to take in any more migrants and trying to extinguish all Jews, gays, communists and disabled? Ok. You should read up on this thread. I don't care to repeat myself. Well. Most of us don't. Most of us weren't alive then. But I can assure you, all German students are being taught the history of WW2. Former GDR states as well.
  14. I urge you to say that out loudly in a street in Germany. I promise you will get reactions ranging from strange looks to people throwing punches at you. Don't make assumptions about things you have obviously no idea of.
  15. https://fcbayern.com/en/news/2017/09/press-release-bayern-and-ancelotti-part-company Well, that went even quicker than I thought. Curious about who they'll choose as a replacement. I think their prime target is Nagelsmann, but he probably won't be available until after the season and I doubt they want to wait out this season with Sagnol. Tuchel maybe?
  16. On a sidenote: That was probably one of the worst performances by Bayern I've ever had the fortune to witness. Wouldn't be surprised if Ancelotti is gone in the winter or even before.
  17. Expected something like an 0-5 score the way we play lately. Was actually quite alright. With a little more luck in front of the goal and the ref making the right decision with Ramos after 5 minutes that could've gone our way, even. Will be quite difficult to reach the Round of 16 now. We definitely have to win the home game against Tottenham by 2 goals.
  18. http://wahl.tagesschau.de/wahlen/2017-09-24-BT-DE/umfrage-aussagen.shtml View of AfD voters on their own party 99% "understood better than others that people don't feel safe anymore" 99% "like it that the party wants to reduce influence of Islam on Germany" 96% "like it that the party wants to reduce the migration of refugees" 85% "Is the only party that caters to my desire to protest" 55% "does not distance itself enough from right wing extremist positions"
  19. If I compare the AfD to the US Republicans I do do that with all its consequences. Most of them are really center-right and voters that used to vote CDU but don't vote for them as they've swayed more to the left in recent years. CDU's recent "slogan" is "Die Mitte". Literally "the center". There is a political vacuum where the CDU used to operate. That's being filled unfortunately by the AfD. I think anyone can agree that the US Republicans have a fraction among their voters who are right wing and racist and would fulfill the term "Nazi" with their political views here in Germany. So does the AfD, no question about that. And yes, that part is dangerous. But there has been a recent survey among AfD voters which stated that upwards of 60% (as far as I remember) think the party leaders of AfD don't distance themselves enough from that right wing (I'll try to dig up the survey for you). And I think that's another parallel to the Republicans at the moment. Trump is way more radical in his views than most of Republican voters. But that goes to show that there is a considerable amount of protest voters among them and not all 13% are right wing loons and Nazis.
  20. http://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2017-09/german-election-alternative-for-germany-angela-merkel?utm_content=zeitde_redpost+_link_sf&utm_campaign=ref&utm_source=twitter_zonaudev_int&utm_medium=sm&wt_zmc=sm.int.zonaudev.twitter.ref.zeitde.redpost.link.sf A few stats on the AfD and the election. English link, but from a German newspaper.
  21. For what it's worth. The latest developments with the SPD likely becoming the opposition leader and CDU, FDP and Green Party the government coalition... the big topic come next election could very well be more social politics. I'll explain why. CDU and FDP are largely pro-business and haven't concerned themselves too much with social issues. And similar to the US we also have the problems with the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer. If the SPD is smart enough - and I think they will - they will work on exactly that to be their main argument in their programme next election and work out an elaborate social plan that speaks to the bases of many parties. That could lead to a coalition of SPD, Left and Green Party to get a majority. Now, in the past SPD largely refused to work with the Left, because they had more radical tendencies in the past. But their new party leaders are more moderate in their approach and the SPD will likely be willing to work with them. Another thing that's going to be interesting to see is how the refugee topic will develop. 4 years from now most will have settled in. The numbers of refugees coming to Germany are already decreasing. Which leads me to the assumption that it won't be as big a topic as it is now. That would also mean less voters for AfD.
  22. Every time I see those uptempo drives by Seattle late in the half, I ask myself why they don't do that more often. Offense has been ridiculously bad so far apart from those drives.
  23. @Warhippy and anyone who's interested. Just saw this article on Twitter and I found it to be very accurate on Merkel's foreign policy in the age of Trump, Putin, Erdogan and Brexit. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/world/europe/germany-merkel-europe.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
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