TheBluesBrother

We need Fabregas and Batman to come on. Creativity is missing. Rectify it, Mr Conte.

Agree.

Same old, same old. Only difference is Alonso. Conte needs to be more risk taking than this. I hope this formation works out but I forsee problems.

No Terry yet again. Conte will have to get creative in defense. Alonso should play and Bran should not. Matic to the bench replaced by Fabregas. We need service from midfield. Truth is with our defense we will have to score more than Hull do, hence the inclusion of Fabreagas. I will be happy when Terry and Zouma are back but Conte will strengthen the back four in January. He certainly needs to. COME ON YOU BLUES !!!!

I hope Terry is back in Central defense. Cahill plays better with him. I wouldn't trust Luiz as a CB because hes a liability. Poor positional sense and doesn't smell danger. Alonso should play and Dave as the other wing back. Matic needs to be ousted in favour of loftus cheek and Fabregas plus Kante. Ivanovic can take a breather on the bench. Conte should maybe play two upfront. He had an experienced back four with Italy and Bill Shankley famously said you need to build your team from the back. Once that's strong, concentrate on midfield and upfront. We are poor at the back and don't look stable. Conte must be pulling his hair out. We need all 3 points but after our recent outings anything is possible.

Are you being serious? Luiz is crap.

We need a clearout A.S.A.P. The fact we didn't strengthen the back four is telling. We have 'Calamity' Luiz, 'Calamity' Courtois (who can't keep a clean sheet), Zouma out injured, Terry out injured, Bergovic(who is useless) Cahill who plays below par with Luiz partnering him, Dave (past it) Ivanovic (past it) All in all we have big problems that the board should have sorted out in the summer. Add to them Matic and we are all at sea. Conte has an impossible job with these players. We are good going forward but poor at the back. We need a miracle.

Yes, they were a great team.

I have a feeling that Hiddink will set us up as he did against Barcelona in that infamous match at the Bridge. Loftus Cheek should start alongside Mikel, fabregas and Oscar.. Hiddink will put 4 or 5 players in midfield to protect the back 4. He will play on the counter. A draw would be a good result especially if we can nick a goal. I will be surprised if Hiddink goes Gung Ho tonight.

This could be a long and painful night. Last season they outplayed us and we were lucky to escape with a draw. This season we have Terry missing, Zouma missing, Matic suspended and Hazard telling us he would like to play for PSG. All in all it's not looking good. Ivanovic and Cahill in central defense isn't our best combination.I would be happy with a draw but I think we could well get overrun tonight.COME ON YOU BLUES !!!

We were unlucky yesterday despite what the commentators said about Watford deserving a point. THEY DID'NT. They got a gift of a penalty handed to them by the idiot Matic and then scored the a deflected fluke. Hardly impressive. We would have won were it not for Oscar slipping before the penalty. Costa misses the Man Utd game because of his temprament and it's getting a little tiring now watching this numbskull ruining our chances. He doesn't score for ages but when a new manager comes in he scores two goals. Many players need to be shipped in January and replaced like Fabregas, Matic, Ivanovic,, Pedro,Falcao, to name but a few. We are a team of misfits and we need to build a team that plays for each other and never gives up and plays as a team. All we have now is a bunch of mercanaries.

Blimey !!! No change with the old guard it seems. Terry and Cahill? Costa upfront? Fabregas and Matic to protect our back four? I hope I'm wrong but this could be a long afternoon.

Top man, who handled that press conference with ease. I hope he is a success at Chelsea FC.

Hiddink's first game in charge. Let's hope he's successful as the first time he was here when he only lost one game. REmy to start because Costsa is a waste of space and is a liability unless of course he has changed his attitude. Matic and Fabregas are dreadful at protecting the back four and we need to strengthen in January. Ditto Terry is slow now and we need a new central defender.. Pogba would be great in midfield and Stones in defense. Important game today, Watford are good at the moment and we will have to be alert to their attacking abilities. More of the same as we saw against Sunderland but actually putting the chances away. Relentless attacking football and keeping it tight at the back. COME ON YOU BLUES !!!

Not sure what will happen today with Holland and Newton in charge. Abramovic went to the trainging ground Friday morning and told the players that this was a new start with Mourinho going. I hope they all return to their potential. If Hiddink does sign for us I don't expect miracles but what I do expect is that he steadies the ship and keeps us in the Premiership. If he achieves anything else then it will be a bonus but Premiership safety is our main priority. Sunderland will more than likely park the bus. I'd like to see a more adventurous Chelsea with quick attacking and shooting on sight. I'd also like to see Costa split defenses and improve on his movement. Mourinho going I think is best for the club. If we had kept Mourinho and these players we would have been relegated.It really is as simple as that. Hope we improve today and take all 3 points. COME ON YOU BLUES !!!

Looks like D-Day today. Abramovic and the board are meeting to decide Mourinho's fate. Something has to give. Either we have a clear out in January of players (difficult) or we sack Mourinho and get in a caretaker for the rest of the season.Not too sure we can even beat Sunderland as things stand. 0-1 to Sunderland. We will find out Mourinho's fate in the coming weeks I reckon.The season from Hell continues.

I, like everyone on this thread and all Chelsea supporters am frustrated at what's going down at Chelsea F.C. This all stems from the Eva/Hazard incident, earlier in the season where Mourinho lost his cool and berated Eva, despite the fact that she was ushered onto the field to tend to Hazard by a match official. Mourinho subsequently had Eva demoted and then sacked. Many of our players really liked Eva and thought Mourinho's treatment of her was out of order. There is a clique in this Chelsea side that are not performing for Mourinho. Hazard, Costa, Fabregas, Matic, Oscar and Ivanovic to name but a few but I suspect there are more..If you remember back to Mourinho's last season at Real Madrid, he also fell out with a number of players. By the end of that season the players and the Real Madrid fans were glad to see the back of Jose, so this isn't an isolated incident. Yes, Mourinho won the Premiership last season but our rivals were poor and we were by a long chalk the best side in the Premiership. Now our rivals have strengthened and we have stood still, in fact we've gone backwards. We started last season like a runaway train but eventually decended into grinding out results and the football in the second half of the season was boring. It's a question of who to get rid of.......Mourinho or the players that are'nt playing for him. How we could ship out so many players and find quality to replace them in January is I think impossible. That leaves getting rid of Mourinho. Before Everyone jumps on me, let me say I've always been a massive fan ofr Jose but I've come to the realisation that he hasn't got a clue what he's doing. A few days ago he said a top 4 spot was possible but yesterday he said it was out of the question. He said he'd made up with Costa after their spat but in reality Costa doesn't like mourinho and wants to go back to Spain, Atheletico Madrid have already made enquiries. Hazard wants to go to Rwal Madrid and this dressing room is unhappy. I reckon if a new manager came in the players would start performing and it's Mourinho that's the problem. Add to that Eva suing Chelsea F.c for unfair dismissal and furthermore suing Mourinho in a seperate court case, then this story will run and run. The press will have a field day.There will be two camps either those for keeping Mourinho or those for keeping the players and outing Jose. I would imagine many will side with Mourinho but I'm in the get rid of Mourinho camp. We could well get relegated if this situation continues. Nothing will change if Mourinho and these players finish this season.January will be the time to act. Let's see what Abramovic thinks. He must be pulling his hair out. It's turned into a disaster of a season and Mourinho has been the architect of his own downfall. He's dug himself into a hole that he cannot get out of. SAD DAYS AT THE BRIDGE.

Well that was a shame. We played the best football we've played this season and still lost. We were relentless but unfortunately couldn't put the ball in the net. Begovic is a liability and I can't remember another Chelsea goalkeeper conceeding so many goals by the first week of November. His positioning is poor and I reckon the back four have little confidence in him either. Remy should have had a penalty. Pedro was unlucky to hit the post and generally the Gods are'nt with us at the the moment. Getting rid of Cech was a massive blunder. Courtois and Cech should have fought it out for number 1 position.If we play like we did at Stoke and put the chances away we could see a revival. Costa needs to up his game because he has been poor this season.We need to string a run of winning games together to bring back that confidence.