drjonesy1994

Can't believe this hasn't been posted here yet.

Knowing what she looks like now, I can't imagine this to ever be true!

You laugh now, but i'll be reeling those points in come January.

Thanks @coombsie , have joined. Though not sure how well I will do, I once kept Luis Suarez in for the entirety of his 10 match ban for biting.

Tbf same could be said for 90% of posters on here...

The Chilwell thing is actually Enzo saying something in Spanish. Watch Enzo's mouth before the camera pans away from him, it's clearly him speaking.

Completely agree. I think we are a bit light in some areas but hopefully that will be sorted soon enough. Above all else I just want to enjoy watching Chelsea again. I didn't enjoy watching us all of last season, or the back end of the season where we were sanctioned. Hopefully with Pochettino's high intensity, high pressing style of play it will make us enjoyable to watch again!

I saw them at the emirates the week before and they were better then than they were at Glastonbury, I still really enjoyed both though. I saw them at Finsbury Park in 2014 and they were incredible, probably the best gig I’ve ever been too.

I went and got back yesterday morning, surprised to see so many negative comments on Arctic Monkeys, they weren't the best I have ever seen them but still really good I thought. Other highlights were Rick Astley, Rick Astley and Blossoms doing The Smiths, The Hives, Courteeners, Cat Stevens. We left Elton's set about 20 minutes before the end, thought it was ok and for all the hype around the guests he would be bringing out, they were all fairly underwhelming apart from Brandon Flowers. I just thought for his last ever UK show it would be more of a show, but me and my mates and a few others around us came away feeling quite underwhelmed by him. Some week though, best festival I've ever done by miles.

"The Blueprint: How Chelsea Changed football" is really good.

Less so than at the time of that post, but still looking at the bigger picture. I think the big thing now is they need to get the next manager right. Obviously looking like it will be Pochettino which I am ok with to be honest. But if they decide to curve us and go for a lesser unknown name, and we have a stinker next season then I think that's when I would begin to have serious doubts and concerns. I still think for the most part they invested smarter in Jan than they did in the summer, even if it was a bit overkill in terms of numbers through the door. Obviously every one in the squad has had an absolute stinker this season, but there are still quality players in there and under the right manager and the squad being cut down from 35 to 20-23 that we could get back in the top 4 next year. That being said if we finish 6th next year for example then I don't think Pochettino should be sacked after just one season, because there would inevitably be calls for that to happen. Boehly needs to be less hands on though. We now have this team of 'football people' behind the scenes who should be trusted to run the operational side. Boehly needs to pull back in terms of going into the dressing room. After a big win, or winning a trophy - then that is fine. But every game as has been reported is too much and completely undermines the influence of whoever the manager is. From what I understand Pochettino has requested this not to happen after every game so if he is appointed be interesting to see what happens. Boehly and co have got a lot wrong this year. If he wanted rid of Tuchel he should've either done it first thing so that Potter had a pre-season, or gave Tuchel the entirety of this season and then made a change in the summer. Sacking him when he did was 100% the wrong time to do so. Sacking Potter to give the job to Lamps was the wrong thing to do. By the time Potter was sacked, I think he probably deserved until the end of the season. Making as many signings as we did in January without getting rid of dead weights was the wrong thing to do. Even if we had signed just say Mudryk, Badiashile and Enzo in January then that would've been a decent window. So I do think they have been guilty of doing too much too fast. That being said, it's their first year on the job and I think there was always bound to be some teething issues. I still think there are good players in this squad, and good players that were signed in January. There's a young core to the squad now and I do think under the right guidance next year we can start to bounce back and if that's the case then most would probably be willing to write this season off - but if this trend continues and we finished 10th or lower again next year then yeah I might change my outlook. But I do think for the most part the structure and the squad is there for us to bounce back. Please don't take this as me blindly defending the owners as seems to happen on this forum, I can see they've got some bits wrong, but still willing for now to give them time to sort it out.

According to David Ornstein in the athletic he is on the verge of signing a new deal with us. Excellent news if true.

The simple way to put a stop to this is announce the new manager in the next 2 weeks or so and announce that they will be taking over in June. Similar to when we initially hired Conte, and similar to what United did with Ten Hag last season. I understand the issues with Lamps coming back, but as long as it’s purely until the end of the season, and all parties are aware of it going into it then I’m ok with it. If somehow he is given the job longer term then that’s when I will take issue with it. But as a short term “fix” until the end of the season then so be it.

The teams that get knocked out of the champions league (barca in this instance) and the teams that finish 2nd in their Europa League groups (United) play in a play off round before the round of 16. I think after this round of EL then the EL and CL will be at the same stage until the final.

That's the one. Blimey that's unlocked a memory haha. Think we only used it for that first year of Roman's ownership? Or not even the full year. Think it may have been binned around Xmas time of that first season.