1 hour ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Both arguments are as daft as eachother. You can't argue someone isn't good enough until they've had an extended run in the team. I don't want to point out the obvious ones like KdB who was given 10 minute cameos then discarded when his talent was obvious from a teenager. Look further afield like Rashford. At youth level he was nothing special for Utd. An injury crisis and an extended run of games with proper minutes under his belt and he gets an international callup and is one of the most promising youngsters in the gane. Same with RLC, goes on loan and gets PROPER game time and he's there getting MOTM awards for the England team. 

Well if our coaches can only work out if a player is good enough is by them playing numerous games in the Chelsea first team then they should all be sacked on the spot.

12 hours ago, Ballack & Blu said:

You have to do a bit of digging to find his personal reasons, but they are their and Valid

As a non-Brit, the scrutiny those not wearing a poppy get, is baffling. Many wars (not all) were fought, and people died, for (personal) freedom, and yet today people aren't free to decide on wearing a poppy or not? A few years ago I read an article about it, and I thought I'd give you the link, I'm especially reminded of the "poppy fascism" argument now

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34720464

Edited February 9, 20188 yr by Valerie

16 minutes ago, Valerie said:

and yet today people aren't free to decide on wearing a poppy or not?

Yes they are free to decide, thanks to those that fought for their freedom to do so.

1 hour ago, Argo said:

Well if our coaches can only work out if a player is good enough is by them playing numerous games in the Chelsea first team then they should all be sacked on the spot.

Glad our coaches decided KdB wasn't good enough from the training field tbh.

And they were right at the time

I hate that Hey Jude seems to have become almost universally adopted as a football song based on that one Arsenal chant.

I sincerely hope we don't steal it now that Giroud has signed for us...

17 minutes ago, yorkleyblue said:

And they were right at the time

Would've been wrong with more game time. Hazard is notorious for being lazy in training, good job coaches don't use this as a basis of him not being good enough. Cba to go over this again with you.

29 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Glad our coaches decided KdB wasn't good enough from the training field tbh.

And Mancienne, Stoch, Sinclair, Bruma, Delac, Kakuta, Van Aanholt Conor Clifford. If we gave them lot serious game time it would be our first team not the U21's that were playing at Sincil Bank a few days ago.

1 minute ago, Argo said:

And Mancienne, Stoch, Sinclair, Bruma, Delac, Kakuta, Van Aanholt Conor Clifford. If we gave them lot serious game time it would be our first team not the U21's that were playing at Sincil Bank a few days ago.

Where has anyone said start a full team of youngsters? One youth player integrated into the team at a time. Pedro has offered nothing all season. His game time given to CHO, Musonda, Boga would have made much more sense (obvs a few are on loan so not possible). They couldn't possibly offer less. Same goes for Ampadu (or RLC/Chalobah if they were still here) in place of Bakayoko. I wouldn't be too keen on changing up the back line with kids but they couldn't have don't much worse than Cahill recently. When 3-0 at half time against Stoke why not let a youngster come on? Instead we send on Bakayoko, Zappacosta and Bats. No training drill can come close to real match experience. 

5 minutes ago, Argo said:

And Mancienne, Stoch, Sinclair, Bruma, Delac, Kakuta, Van Aanholt Conor Clifford. If we gave them lot serious game time it would be our first team not the U21's that were playing at Sincil Bank a few days ago.

Yeah but the problem is the best two players in the league this season, by far, have both slipped through our fingers, when you look at the players we have playing in those positions, Bakayoko/Drinkwater , and Pedro/Willian, it hurts us all, it's bloody killing us.

 

Just now, RIP Mourinho said:

Where has anyone said start a full team of youngsters? One youth player integrated into the team at a time. Pedro has offered nothing all season. His game time given to CHO, Musonda, Boga would have made much more sense (obvs a few are on loan so not possible). They couldn't possibly offer less. Same goes for Ampadu (or RLC/Chalobah if they were still here) in place of Bakayoko. I wouldn't be too keen on changing up the back line with kids but they couldn't have don't much worse than Cahill recently. When 3-0 at half time against Stoke why not let a youngster come on? Instead we send on Bakayoko, Zappacosta and Bats. No training drill can come close to real match experience. 

That's the point, it's up to the coaches to identify which are warranted game time, the whole notion of "stick them in see what they do" is flawed. From what i see Hudson Odoi is worthy of game time but Musonda and Boga weren't/aren't (Boga is in and out of a relegation threatened Championship side), the latter two just don't have the tactical nous and sharpness of decision making that CHO has.

1 minute ago, coco said:

Yeah but the problem is the best two players in the league this season, by far, have both slipped through our fingers, when you look at the players we have playing in those positions, Bakayoko/Drinkwater , and Pedro/Willian, it hurts us all, it's bloody killing us.

De Bruyne fair enough that one was a screw up but in general when a coach makes decisions on letting players go it is the correct one. As much as i acknowledge Salah's form this season i think he literally in the perfect system for him and wouldn't be half as effective for us, like for example David Luiz has been brilliant coming back for us and a vital part to our title win, but on the other hand, imagine him in Klopp's back four?

As this is the unpopular opinion thread, Musonda is immensely overrated and won't make it at Chelsea.

Edited February 9, 20188 yr by the special one

Abramovitch comes across as a pretty dull bloke. If you didn't know better, he could be a sluice gate operator at a sewage treatment plant.

He wears boring clothes, a vacant expression, and looks about as much fun as an orphanage on fire.   

Edited February 9, 20188 yr by Ewell CFC

1 hour ago, coco said:

Yes they are free to decide, thanks to those that fought for their freedom to do so.

But they are being badgered over it, some have been physically attacked, I read somewhere.  Over a piece of red paper! Even on this forum non-wearers have to justify themselves. As I said before, this baffles me. 

I don't know if this will be deemed unpopular but i think Christensen is better than Azpi (and this is coming from a huge fan of Azpi anyway).

Emerson will be considered as much as a bargain as Azpi 5 years down the line. 

2 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Emerson will be considered as much as a bargain as Azpi 5 years down the line. 

Blimey. That's a pretty bold claim. 

Dave probably goes down as one of the all time biggest bargains of the Premier League era. 

2 hours ago, Valerie said:

But they are being badgered over it, some have been physically attacked, I read somewhere.  Over a piece of red paper! Even on this forum non-wearers have to justify themselves. As I said before, this baffles me. 

I don't wear one, and when i say that out loud i get funny looks. I don't have anything against the Poppy, i just don't like the look of them. I'm happy to just donate the money and not wear the Poppy. It's the same when donating to cancer charities. They try and tempt you with those silly little rubber bracelet things, but i think they are horrible. I would rather just donate the money without having anything attached to it.

43 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

I don't wear one, and when i say that out loud i get funny looks. I don't have anything against the Poppy, i just don't like the look of them. I'm happy to just donate the money and not wear the Poppy. It's the same when donating to cancer charities. They try and tempt you with those silly little rubber bracelet things, but i think they are horrible. I would rather just donate the money without having anything attached to it.

Absolutely Scott. I always buy a poppy, never wear it. Contribute to other charities which give you sticky backed badges to put on. Never put them on either. Don't feel the need to advertise my donations.

1 hour ago, Scott Harris said:

I don't wear one, and when i say that out loud i get funny looks. I don't have anything against the Poppy, i just don't like the look of them. I'm happy to just donate the money and not wear the Poppy. It's the same when donating to cancer charities. They try and tempt you with those silly little rubber bracelet things, but i think they are horrible. I would rather just donate the money without having anything attached to it.

I haven't worn one for the last 2 or 3 years, still drop a fiver in the RBL tin as soon as they start collecting, but the nastiness surrounding those who have set themselves up over the last few years as the moral police of Remembrance Day have put me off completely. I still admire the RBL greatly for their work and fundraising, hence my continued financial support, but I'll not be told that I have to wear anything, by anybody.

Part of the problem is that the whole Poppy thing gets hijacked each year by the EDL/Britain First c**ts and their Rabid jingoistic nationalism, and, sadly, that evil emetic message gets diluted a tad and then promulgated by UKIPPERY spunk-stains and the worst end of the Tory party, encouraged by their cock-fluffers, the right-wing press.

We've already got a thread for political opinions, do we really need to spread to this one as well?

2 hours ago, yorkleyblue said:

Part of the problem is that the whole Poppy thing gets hijacked each year by the EDL/Britain First c**ts and their Rabid jingoistic nationalism, and, sadly, that evil emetic message gets diluted a tad and then promulgated by UKIPPERY spunk-stains and the worst end of the Tory party, encouraged by their cock-fluffers, the right-wing press.

Modern day poetry 

2 hours ago, Zeta said:

We've already got a thread for political opinions, do we really need to spread to this one as well?

On the plus side, Yorkley's posts are teaching me about flowery English 

 

But you're right, let's get back to unpopular Chelsea opinions: I don't like the new Megastore. Where did all the enjoyable useless junk and trinkets go 

If I've got this right I would have to go to the bridge in person to get a ticket for the Barcelona away game. I don't live in England but have been a member for several years and think this is very unfair.