Chelsea Lad

I just can't do it. I have to see how we are doing, even if that means throwing up in front of the TV from nerves lol.

I see where you are coming from and would agree with you about our wingers not being able to play in a 4-3-3 effectively. Perhaps it would be better to play Kalou and SWP, two very attacking players who have the pace and ball control to run at the defence whereas perhaps J Cole isn't so good at it? Klaou is a natural striker so should be no problem there. I'm sure we will play 4-3-3 again, but I certainly hope we bring in the players next season so we can play in a way that will utilise all our midfield strength but also give us width in the way kalou has done amazingly well for us this season IMO. I'd be a great admirer of Bentley joining us.

I sing so loud when I'm sitting in the MHL or just watching the TV at home, lol. Even in the shower.

East Upper is sh*te, just a bunch of families. Should of got tickets in the MH or Shed End.

This is me just wondering, really. I'm 16 and been a Blue fan most of my life. It all started with my Grandad who used to live near The Bridge in the '60's, my mum then became a true blue and I now have blue blood. My first game was Dennis Wise's testemonial match, in about '99?

Yes it is but we have a pretty wide reaching mix of posters from local ST holders to odd fruits in Bangkok! Ok, I just don't want to be posting with a bunch of people who don't really know the club. If it is mainly UK then great, you're always gonna get the odd glory boy from the otherside of the world.

Sorry mate, but I completly disagree with what you say. You said in an earlier post that our full backs will provide us with the width (thus not needing wingers). This is completly wrong, I don't quite see how our only width can be 1 player from each wing, and neither of these 2 'wingers/fullbacks' are good with the ball at their feet. Fullbacks are not wingers. Sure they get forward just as much as the wingers do, but you'll rarely see even the most attacking fullback running with the ball at opposition fullbacks. With the addition of a natural winger it means one-twos can be played to help get through the pitch. Playing 1 wide player will give this player no joy what so ever. It will be a 2v1 situation for the whole of the game both offensively and defensively. Imagine Ronaldo and Evra running at a lonesome Ashley Cole (or whoever) or on the other side of the pitch Giggs and Wes Brown running at our full back with perhaps the help of Rooney as he often oulls out wide. United rely heavily on their wingers and by us just playing 1 'wide' player will result in a catastrophy for Chelsea. Imagine if Ashely Cole gets forward, who is there to cover his LB spot? No-one, he will have to single handly boss the wing against a very wing-reliant United team. You also said you couldn't understand how playing 4 strong central midfielders would result in a loss in possession terms. My answer to this arguement is this; 1) Think about how similar these players are. You can only have so much of something good. 2) This will cause the game to be so congested in the middle of the park, resulting in a very fiece battle to win the ball (you would expect Chelsea to win the midfield battle, with 4 central midfielders). Ok, so we win the midfield battle, now what? Who's gonna be the out-ball? Cause there would need to be an out-ball cause I can't imagine one of the 4 players running at the United defence with the ball at their feet. The out-ball can't be out wide, there is no wingers except our make-shift wingers who are also fullbacks. So the final outball has to be Drogba. Sorry for the long rant, but I truely can't see any backing in your statement.

Zola in the coaching team yes, but as a manager no, not yet at least. I'd rather he cut his teeth in management elsewhere first before taking over as our manager. I'd hate the idea that he managed the club and ended up making a hash of it. Welcome to the forums by the way. Yeah true, he said on Inside Sport (I think that's what the programme is called) that he would love to manage Chels in the future, but not yet. It would be terrible if he did bad with us and maybe it's worth a 10 year wait or so before we try and get him. Oh and cheers, it seems a good site. But is the site UK based?

Hope you get well soon Lamps mum (belive her name is Pat?)

Guillet would be great, but Zola would be better.

I dount Carlo will go, he is Chelsea at heart mate and I'm sure he'll be with us until he retires. I don't think he minds staying at Chelsea and playing 10-15 games a season in the cup games and the odd PL and CL game. After all he knows how much he is loved by us, he always gets a great reception when he comes on. 'CARLO, CARLO, CARLO!' So if we say Bridge leaves, then it'll be a contest for the LB spot between two of the greates LB's in the world between Coley and Lahm. I suppose Lahm is ok on the right, but then we have no great back up for the lb spot. I think we can spend our money on much more needed players this season.

1) That formation and line-up will not be used by AG this season 2) The main reason for that is we have no width, causing a few problems. Just to name one, our fullbacks we be completly vulnerable to the United wingers. This will cause them to never be able to get forward (in a game we need to attack) and therefore the momentun of the game is likely to continue being on the away side. 3) No central midfielder on the bench? I mean, seriously, I'm glad AG is in charge and not you. I think we should/will play this way: GK - Cech RB - Essien CB - Riccy CB - JT LB - Cole CM - Ballack CM - Maka CM - Lamps RW - Cole ST - Drogba LW - Kalou Subs: Hilario (or Carlo if fit), Ferriera, Mikel, Malouda, Anelka. This formation we are used to, we can bring Essien into the midfield if we are losing or take Maka off and put Essien into the midfield and bring a forward on. If a defender gets injured Ferriera can come on and play anywhere along the back four (something Belleti can't do) yet he can still get forward well if he is need in a full back position (something Alex can't do.) If we had it your way, United would probably have 70% of the possession, something we obviously can not allow them to have.

I've got a feeling at least one of the four will leave in the summer. Maybe, I can't really see it happening. Unless Bridge desperatly wants first-team football or Mourinho needs a new full back at his new club (which he would probably turn to Ferriera).

We don't need another fullback, we have Cole and Bridge on the left and Belleti and Paulo on the right.

I think Didier was just making the most of the sh*t ref we had last night, blowing the whistle when ever anyone was on the floor. Tbh Torres was doing it an awful lot as well yesterday.