Kyle

Can a side be so un-threatening that it's actually threatening? The season's so dead we're now just using games to do scientific experiments!

Sacking him the first time was obviously the right call but it really hurt, and you know it did for him too. Now we get a chance at a happier ending. He's doing us a favour here, there might not be many managers champing at the bit to finish off a Graham Potter season where we're already doomed into finishing mid-table, or to take on the challenge of trying to prepare for the European Champions in less than a week. Lampard's stepped up again (and again it's probably not the right move for looking after his own career at this point), I'm grateful for it. It might not work out in practice (and it's unfair to expect it in the short time he'll have), but after the season we've had I'm just so happy to have a manager that I know will at least have the intent to have us look like Chelsea again.

Would love Lampard until the end of the season. There's little to lose for either party. As of now, we only have two meaningful games left this season, if we end up being able to make that four or five, we and he will have done great. If not? Who cares? It'll take a lot longer than a few weeks to turn around Graham Potter's Chelsea and none of this is on a caretaker. We get a manager for a while that undoubtedly loves this club and will fight for it with passion (really important coming after the That's Life era). And everyone involved gets to go out on better terms than last time.

Undecided. I was 100% team sack before Dortmund. Two good games isn't enough to earn my full faith, it should be the bare minimum, but it has proved my absolute certainty that we'd fail wrong. With us starting to briefly look like an actual functioning team I don't think it would be good for these players to make the change right now anymore. For the players sake it's probably best to let them gel and build chemistry until May now. We're going to have a failure of a league season. That's inescapable. If come May I can think "it was a terrible season because of everything that happened before March", then I could leave it all behind. If we spend the next few months progressing and I can confidently say we're not going to struggle to get back in the CL next year, then I'll happily give Potter my backing. This is all provided we don't win the CL of course. Then I'm good with a 17th placed finish and will help build his statue!

It's mental that there's actual billionaires, supposed great minds in top level sport, just sitting there and somehow thinking that giving Potter more time is anything other than just GUARANTEEING more failure. In January instead of taking a chance ahead of a pretty favourable run of games (even only 2 or 3 extra wins would leave us with a decent amount of hope of rescuing a decent league position) we chose guaranteed failure instead and now heading into f**king March Chelsea Football Club isn't even assured of its top flight status! How can anyone not want this once in a lifetime bad tenure to end? If he's not gone before Dortmund we may as well forfeit, save our legs for the relegation battle we're going to willingly drop into.

Get him gone before Dortmund. One competition left to play, the one competition we can still retain a high standard and regain a modicum of pride in our season in, let's not go out of it playing like this. We're just out of a pretty favourable run of fixtures, just a couple of more wins and we could have had some hope at being in next season's CL, but he couldn't even manage that. We're no-hopers, in bloody early February. If he couldn't even keep us in contention for fourth (at best) past this point, what gives people confidence that he'll be able to get the job done next year? Let alone being able to move us towards actually competing for trophies.

The Enzo saga was so frustrating that my main emotion since Tuesday has just been pure relief that it's over, and that I'll never have to read about Rui Costa, the bastard release clause price (but not the actual release clause somehow), "insisting", and the never-ending on/off noise for any longer. Excitement's starting to kick in now though! Hyped to see Mudryk too! Very uneasy about Reece back starting so soon. Hopefully not tempting fate.

I have no faith he'll turn it around but I can't expect the club to sack him so quick. If there's no improvement by the time the Dortmund game is approaching and he's still in charge I'll be disappointed at the flat-out lack of ambition. Bad appointments can happen (as we know all too well), it's forgivable. Accepting failure isn't.

Had a nice break from worrying about this lot. Hopefully the break's been good for the players too. Anything less than 6 points from this and Forest and we're f**ked!

I know with his diplomas in workplace bonding, emotions and feelings he likely "doesn't believe" in testicles, but if he can't get this team to start showing some I hope he's axed pretty quick. His "Titanic" comment the other day was pathetic. If it's that bad f**k off back to your canoe that few would even notice if it's sinking then!

Zakalele has arrived!

Unleash Zakalele!

I sympathise with the right WB problem. You need to tinker, rotate or try something new there? Fine, but the left side? Nah, playing anyone other than Chilwell or Cucurella there right now is braindead. Tinkering for the sake of it, or worse, lacking the testes to keep a Pulisic or Sterling out of the team. These selections along with prioritising rehabbing Kepa and hoping we'll reverse about 4 years of Taibi-level form to get back a, what, half-decent keeper? Over rehabbing a bad year for Mendy, who if we could reverse his form we'd gain back one of the best keepers in the world- Doesn't look good for Potter.

That makes it, what, one time in four years? Not trusting him fully to command his area if the game turns into the ball repeatedly being crossed into our box again is hardly unfair "grief". He's been good under Potter so far, was brilliant on Sunday, but it'll take a lot more than that for me to be able to trust him as undisputed #1 over Mendy.

If Brentford bombard us like in this fixture last year I don't trust Kepa to save us like Mendy did. Good to see Broja start. Will take any kind of win tonight, then we look good for the United game at the weekend with a fresh team.