Droyman

You seriously think a professional footballer can have his talent 'coached out' in 3 weeks? I mean really! Also we haven't been 'creating much' long before Potter got here!

Given a bit of time he will have us back to where we were, not only winning football but attractive winning football, I'm excited for next season and even more excited about the season after that..........................as long as we sort out the bloody fitness/medical team that is or else the only difference will be we will have different players on crutches!

Football doesn't stand still, things have moved on since Mourinho. He will (obviously) always be a legend at this club but hiring him now would simply be a step backwards. I am still excited about Potter, in time he will give us attractive competitive football, and when he does a 'few' on here are going to have to eat some humble pie. Some are even going to have to change their member names.

Good post! I also think that sometimes people don't realise just how competitive this league is! Fans of City, Arsenal, Liverpool, Spurs, Man U, Newcastle (now theyre the richest club in the world) all 'expect' their club to win the league, add to that Brighton, Fulham etc (extremely well run clubs) now also having expectations to compete, not to mention the one time Champions of Europe clubs like Villa and Forest and their expectations based on their past and you end up with a LOT of expectant fans.

You're just kidding us surely?

Yes but I am being accused of 'hating' newer Chelsea fans................and that is simply not true!

Being as dominant as we were mid 2000's is going to be a tall order - there is more top heavy competition now (ie everybody's got the money!) but I am pretty hopeful we will be playing attractive football and we will be competing for the top prizes. Time will tell, as long as we give it (the project) some time.

Be careful what you wish for.

I''m only mentioning the times that we have been in the same situations that we find ourselves in now, and I am only trying to point out that removing the manager instead of addressing the real issues didn't work back then and I'm sure it won't work now.

I never used the term 'hater'? Why is hindsight back to the 90's a bit much? To think that there was no pressure on the club just because it was 30 years ago is wrong, to think that Hoddle wasn't under pressure because it was the 90's is wrong, in fact I think he was under even more pressure. Chelsea were the 'swinging' club of the late 60's early 70's, that is before my time but I am under no illusions as to the feelings of the supporters when the castle started to crumble in the mid to late seventies. Mentioning Hoddle is, if you ask me VERY appropriate, fact is Hoddle was brought in to usher in a new era, like Potter - he had to start with mediocrity, like Potter - he struggled for results for a while, like Potter (in fact for longer than Potter has been given so far) - he needed time, which the club afforded him and therefore in the long run flourished - like Potter?

All you 'sack Potter now' zealots, are any of you old enough to remember 1993/94? Let me tell you what I remember. In 1992/93 we had finished 11th - dull, long ball football, attendances at an all time top flight low, club not exactly 'flush' with funds. At the start of 93/94 a new manager is in place, a man called Glenn Hoddle. This manager is not the kind of guy that advocates dull, long ball football, he wants the game played the 'right way', pass and move, control of the football, he wants 'attractive football', football to bring the supporters back through the turnstiles. Fast forward to 28th December 1993, there we are, in the relegation places, we have won THREE league games ALL SEASON, we have lost EIGHT of our last ten, drawing the other two, me and a friend get a couple of tickets that day to watch us play Newcastle United - a club challenging for the title (they finished 3rd that season). The 'atmosphere' at the Bridge has been getting 'toxic', Hoddle out NOW is what a percentage of Chelsea fans are demanding (a smaller percentage than those that want to give him a chance), game kicks off and Newcastle start threatening straight away, HOWEVER there is something 'different' about this Chelsea team, despite being under the cosh for long periods they are breaking with some beautiful moves, they're no longer hoofing it forward towards the 'big man' (not that we had one at the time it was Peacock and Stein!), suddenly a beautiful move forward and we go one up! In fact we hang on for our first league win since SEPTEMBER. From that moment on we start to improve, we're unbeaten in the next 5 (winning 4). At the end of the season we finish 14th three places LOWER that the previous year BUT there is something different, a team that plays attractive football, we start to see the attendances increase, we start 'attracting' the TV camera's, we start getting more cash and better players. These are our finishing places and average attendances in the following years:- 94/95 - 11th - 21,063 95/96 - 11th - 25,590 96/97 - 6th - 27,512 97/98 - 4th - 32,901 98/99 - 3rd - 34,748 The rest is as they say history, it was a revolution at the club, Hoddle didn't immediately improve things.......in fact results got worse, before getting better, however after a couple of seasons he had a very poor team playing competitive AND attractive football that completely changed the direction of our club. Can you imagine what would have happened if Bates bowed to the pressure and sacked him when things were going badly (a lot worse than things have been under Potter)? I feel fairly sure we would NOT have two Champions League trophies in the cabinet right now! All you Potter haters think on.

You are quite correct it is longer than Tuchel got once the team started to 'underperform' but I think most of us are in agreement that Tuchel should have been given time also!

All you 'sack Potter now' zealots, are any of you old enough to remember 1993/94? Let me tell you what I remember. In 1992/93 we had finished 11th - dull, long ball football, attendances at an all time top flight low, club not exactly 'flush' with funds. At the start of 93/94 a new manager is in place, a man called Glenn Hoddle. This manager is not the kind of guy that advocates dull, long ball football, he wants the game played the 'right way', pass and move, control of the football, he wants 'attractive football', football to bring the supporters back through the turnstiles. Fast forward to 28th December 1993, there we are, in the relegation places, we have won THREE league games ALL SEASON, we have lost EIGHT of our last ten, drawing the other two, me and a friend get a couple of tickets that day to watch us play Newcastle United - a club challenging for the title (they finished 3rd that season). The 'atmosphere' at the Bridge has been getting 'toxic', Hoddle out NOW is what a percentage of Chelsea fans are demanding (a smaller percentage than those that want to give him a chance), game kicks off and Newcastle start threatening straight away, HOWEVER there is something 'different' about this Chelsea team, despite being under the cosh for long periods they are breaking with some beautiful moves, they're no longer hoofing it forward towards the 'big man' (not that we had one at the time it was Peacock and Stein!), suddenly a beautiful move forward and we go one up! In fact we hang on for our first league win since SEPTEMBER. From that moment on we start to improve, we're unbeaten in the next 5 (winning 4). At the end of the season we finish 14th three places LOWER that the previous year BUT there is something different, a team that plays attractive football, we start to see the attendances increase, we start 'attracting' the TV camera's, we start getting more cash and better players. These are our finishing places and average attendances in the following years:- 94/95 - 11th - 21,063 95/96 - 11th - 25,590 96/97 - 6th - 27,512 97/98 - 4th - 32,901 98/99 - 3rd - 34,748 The rest is as they say history, it was a revolution at the club, Hoddle didn't immediately improve things.......in fact results got worse, before getting better, however after a couple of seasons he had a very poor team playing competitive AND attractive football that completely changed the direction of our club. Can you imagine what would have happened if Bates bowed to the pressure and sacked him when things were going badly (a lot worse than things have been under Potter)? I feel fairly sure we would NOT have two Champions League trophies in the cabinet right now! All you Potter haters think on.

I wonder what the city fans posted on their forums when they lost at Anfield this season? Sack Guardiola perhaps!?

How about taking into account the fact that the manager has only managed 20 games? The fact that we've had bans twice in two seasons and when we have bought players we've wasted hundreds of millions on dross like Lukaku or Werner etc? Or the fact that the whole club is under new ownership? Or more than anything the fact that we have the worst injury crisis in the history of football? 11 players on crutches! Perhaps we should reserve judgement until the new management, coach, players have actually had a bit of time? Liverpool have LESS injuries than we do yet they are suffering in exactly the same way we are................and their manager has had years of experience at the club!

There are posters on here that won't consider it a 'good performance' until we start beating Man City by 4 or 5 clear goals every time we play them, probably supporters that have only 'known' us since the turn of the century and have therefore built up unreasonable 'expectations'. And until we thrash everybody we play they will continue harping on about 'sacking' Potter! Today's performance was pretty good, I think we were the 'better' team, perhaps we should have won but a draw is a good result, it means we picked up one point more than Manchester City did when they went there - this season Liverpool's home record reads played 16, won 10, drawn 4, lost 2.

We haven't had a clinical attack since Costa left us, I'm not sure how its all been Potters fault since then!? How do you 'coach out' an attacking threat? Maybe if we had a couple of half decent strikers our 'attacking threat' would improve, I'm as much a Premier League striker as Havertz is.

Its a tall order from the position we're in, is James close to a return? He makes such a difference. I'm excited about our signings.........however I was excited when we signed a lot of our more recent signings and they haven't done too well. I hope we are bucking the trend!

If Utd have some fans like some of ours they'll be calling for Ten Hag to be sacked! 😄

Nuno didn't have his first team on crutches!! Potter has had a miserly 20 games with us - NONE of which he has been able to pick anything like the team he wants! You SERIOUSLY expect him to have solved our issues already.......and without his first team!!? I'm guessing you've only been a Chelsea supporter since Roman took over!? Do you seriously think that ANY manager would have us challenging for the top 4 right now after the sh*t show of the last year or so!? Giving your support only once he's turned things around is NOT giving support is it?

When Potter gets a proper chance with this club and starts getting success are you going to change your username? Or will you just disappear from here?

London in February is going to feel a bit on the chilly side, especially to somebody coming from a Brazilian Summer! Enjoy your trip but don't forget to wrap up warm!

I'm now living in Crawley so I've popped down the road to see them a few times, I'd like to see them do well. Also I used to go to quite a few Maidstone United games with a mate who was a season ticket holder there.......his 'other' team is Arsenal though! In fact my two closest mates are Arsenal and Sp*ds!! Silly b'stards! 😄 . Oh would like to see Bromley move up a league or two as that is close to where i was born and bred.

Sticks in my mind for some reason too, I was only a young boy but I went to the last game of the season the year before 0-0 v Middlesbro, I remember getting on the pitch with my uncle after the other results came in and had gone our way. We turned up for the first game of the following season a 4-0 hammering of Derby (Derby were one of the pre-season favourites to go up) and I believe it was written in that particular program, Dixon, Speedie, Nevin, Rougvie, Hollins (coming back?) a few signings from the lower leagues and Scotland and we were transformed! Imagine if we'd simply sacked John Neal at the end of the season instead of backing him, I wonder where we would be today.

We have our usual 'issues' ie wobbly moments at the back and nobody to put the ball in the net, HOWEVER, like against Fulham we were the better side today and unlike against Fulham we got our just reward - 3 points! I liked the look of Badiashile, if this new fella sitting in the stands is half decent and we can get the walking wounded back off their crutches we should start to see some 'growth'. As Ken Bates once said in his programme on the first day of the new season 1983-84 after our worst ever finish the season before - "a lot of people were pressuring me to sack John (Neal) at the end of last year but instead I decided to back him - I did this because there were a lot of injury issues last year and FRANKLY A LOT OF THE PLAYERS WERE QUITE SIMPLY NOT GOOD ENOUGH - the rest is as we know history. Its blatantly obvious quite a few of our players now are 'quite simply, not good enough'