jamie_tbfootball

Hi I'm Jamie - from Sunny Bournemouth (Because that's what everyone says!)
I'm 30 and have been a Chelsea member since 1993 and a Season Ticket holder since 1997.
I used to sit in the Shed End, but moved over to the West Stand Lower for the past 15+ years.
Look forward to joining in discussion about the Blues. KTBFFH!
(That's me on the left with my Dad in Munich 2012 on that legendary night, you might remember)
Cheers,
Jamie

I don't agree with "Men against Boys" every man put up a fight for the shirt, no one was caught hiding.
Experienced against Inexperienced
You could see they have been there, done it - they have had the experience and know how to punish every opening. 
They knew the importance to punish our mistakes. We were resting on the belief that we would get rewarded eventually for good build up play.
They had the Pique/Busquets/Inesta/Messi experience on their side
The leadership/awareness/management/know how to guide the team to victory 
It's that Cech/Terry/Lampard/Drogba quality that was missing - unfortunately we don't have those types of characters at this time
This team are very reliant on Conte's ability to deliver that experience and knowledge
Having said that we performed brilliantly last night and deserved more, but were undone by errors and the magic of messi

I don't agree with "Men against Boys" every man put up a fight for the shirt, no one was caught hiding.
Experienced against Inexperienced
You could see they have been there, done it - they have had the experience and know how to punish every opening. 
They knew the importance to punish our mistakes. We were resting on the belief that we would get rewarded eventually for good build up play.
They had the Pique/Busquets/Inesta/Messi experience on their side
The leadership/awareness/management/know how to guide the team to victory 
It's that Cech/Terry/Lampard/Drogba quality that was missing - unfortunately we don't have those types of characters at this time
This team are very reliant on Conte's ability to deliver that experience and knowledge
Having said that we performed brilliantly last night and deserved more, but were undone by errors and the magic of messi

We gave it our all, and were punished by some clinical finishing. 
We played well for a lot of it and were unlucky to not to score more. We hit the wood work.... what.....4 or 5 times over the two legs. 
Courtois was awful last night though, really poor.
Conte's tactics were spot on, we had so many chances, he cant be blamed if players hit the woodwork, or miss, thats on them!

Given we have to score, Barca taking a 1-0 lead won't actually change that much. So while it's 0-0 we should be more attacking and try and cancel out Messi's away goal.
From what i can remember we have drew 1-1 at home in the first leg twice before and both times won 2-1 away at Arsenal and Valencia with the goals coming at remarkably similar times (the home side scoring just before half time, us equalising just after half time then scoring a late winner).

I'll be there. In the clouds. Just hope the team does us proud!

Welcome. The ‘Sunny wherever’ must  be a coastal thing. I’m use to live in Sunny Gosport