Come on look at what your seeing on the pitch - its not what we hoped or expected under Jose is it.
I'm perfectly content, we are more or less where I thought we would be before the season began: strolling along at a fair but unspectacular pace, keeping in touch with the league leaders and fulfilling expectations in Europe. To dredge up a tired but apt adage, 'Rome wasn't built in a day'; Jose's second Chelsea team will similarly not be built in a day, in a season, or perhaps even in three seasons. One mustn't fall into the trap of expecting things, expecting this and that and bemoaning any deviation from an idealised, I dare say unrealistic 'plan'.
Comparisons between the Chelsea of 2004-05 and the contemporary team are all well and good in isolation but at the end of the day they don't matter a jot: 'Jose has lost x amount of games relative to his first season, tut-tut,' etc. Yawn. f**king get over it. This is not 2004, Jose hasn't been tasked with coaxing a title-worthy spine into taking their rightful place atop the English game in time for a centenary jolly, the challenge facing him this time around is an altogether different beast.
If we accept the club line that there has been a significant shift in direction at the top and that Roman has settled on playing a 'long game' then it naturally follows that we must allow Jose a huge amount of slack in his first season back in England. Even if we reject (soberly and sensibly, one would be inclined to suggest) the club line - knowing full well that Roman's predilection for the plug-and-play managerial approach will likely carry on regardless of any stated intention to the contrary at board level - we must allow Jose a 'write-off' season purely on the basis of what he's been given to work with, namely a bloated squad that doesn't conform to his tried and tested tactical ethos.
The fact that we are still in the hunt despite the challenges facing Jose suggests, for now at least, that it is plain sailing as far as he is concerned. Take a peek down the table at a certain red-clad outfit to get a glimpse of what 'bumpy' really looks like, or at a white-clad outfit for a lesson that is closer to home in more ways than one. There's a sh*t load of work that needs to happen in between the here and now and the point when we're a well-oiled machine again, questioning the man who is more equipped than most - this is not a mere partisan rallying point, empirical evidence backs me up on this point - to get that work done smacks of an infantile dereliction of your duty as a Chelsea supporter. Question, by all means question, but less of the monotonous moaning.
Losing at stoke was a disaster, and 3 goals conceded against a team who can't score more than 2
It was no such thing, a disastrous result is one that has long-lasting ramifications - think Bobby D's final stand against Juventus - whilst the Stoke result was a mere aberration bookended by four league wins. Stop being so dramatic, it was an unpalatable blip, nothing more.
Losing at Sunderland, the bottom club in PL was awful too
And thus avoiding a potential double-header against one of the Manchester clubs and a potential energy-sapping Wembley clash with the other, all for the sake of a relatively meaningless (read: Kenny Dalglish) pot? Awful? Really? In the grand scheme of things? I get the whole take every competition seriously thing but come on, that Sunderland result may well prove a blessing in disguise in the long run.
We have strikers who can't score for some reason
A startling revelation.
Anyway not sure why some on this message board have been so offensive but no one wants us to improve more than I do but blue-blinkers isn't helping
Rehashing oft-repeated points about what isn't working won't do an awful lot to help.
, and just take it one match at a time. That's all we can do.
CFCToronto, you are right, on all counts. Tabloids are garbage, I don't know why anyone pays any mind to them (I guess because some people have no lives). 
