James is lacking game intelligence and that comes from playing lots of games and experience. He is the opposite of Lahm.

I must admit i do find it strange that he isn't getting games over 'Dave', maybe not every week but i think he contributes as much as Dave at this stage in their respective careers, and deserves more starts as the 'proper' right back.

3 hours ago, Deino said:

James is lacking game intelligence and that comes from playing lots of games and experience. He is the opposite of Lahm.

"He is the opposite of Lahm". Yea not world class

1 hour ago, chelseablueboy said:

I must admit i do find it strange that he isn't getting games over 'Dave', maybe not every week but i think he contributes as much as Dave at this stage in their respective careers, and deserves more starts as the 'proper' right back.

Gradual changeover, a bit like what Pep did with the two Silva's. Season by season RJ's game time will increase while Cesar's will decrease.

46 minutes ago, Argo said:

Gradual changeover, a bit like what Pep did with the two Silva's. Season by season RJ's game time will increase while Cesar's will decrease.

also as a reminder, James is only 20 years old. doesn't hurt for him to gain some more experience as well.

Reece just got hammered on FIFA by Gomes from Everton 8-0 in the PL Invitational

4 hours ago, Brutos said:

 

Chelsea players really aren't very good at Fifa, thats Mason, Tammy, and now Reece spanked

I am glad. This means our lads spending less time with FIFA and more time with a real football.

Chelsea drop transfer interest in Achraf Hakimi after Reece James progress

Correct decision, Reece is already a world class fullback as far I'm concerned. Our one youngster that is skipping the raw inconsistent stages.

7 hours ago, Argo said:

Chelsea drop transfer interest in Achraf Hakimi after Reece James progress

Correct decision, Reece is already a world class fullback as far I'm concerned. Our one youngster that is skipping the raw inconsistent stages.

Now take your blue tinted specs off and see if you can drive 30 miles. 
 

Reece is very good but he’s still got a lot of learning to do. He’s showing all the signs that he can get there though. 

On 25/05/2020 at 13:00, Argo said:

Chelsea drop transfer interest in Achraf Hakimi after Reece James progress

Correct decision, Reece is already a world class fullback as far I'm concerned. Our one youngster that is skipping the raw inconsistent stages.

Not world class Argo, Reece has a lot of potential but lets get ahead of ourselves. 

One thing for sure though is that we certainly don't need a right back, James should be our number 1. 

When he came on he looked like he had just rolled out of bed, christ that was awful... Must have lost the ball 5 times in 5 minutes.

I'm not overly worried as he's still a youngster and just hope he learns he always needs to be on his A game when on the pitch.

I think it was all about this restart. No worries about him.

31 minutes ago, Shweaves said:

When he came on he looked like he had just rolled out of bed, christ that was awful... Must have lost the ball 5 times in 5 minutes.

I'm not overly worried as he's still a youngster and just hope he learns he always needs to be on his A game when on the pitch.

I think he was asked to run with the ball (playing to his strength that he can and he was fresh) and he just wasn't sharp enough from the restart. It happens. Not concerned at all!

He is a wonderful player - despite his 5 minutes, when he played like a one legged man uphill the K2. I suppose Frank had a short talk with him about his performance afterwards and we´ll see him again with all his power and speed.

I think he just fundamentally misunderstood the situation of the game. He was being brought on to add defensive cover and keep us solid. unfortunately he tried too hard to impress and ended up running into players and tripping over his feet. Just needed to keep it simple and not overdo it. Im sure he'll have been taught for next time.

I thought it was a strange change by Lampard. Under normal circumstances it made perfect sense but these are slightly odd times and bringing on a rusty defender to shore things up didn't make much sense to me. Inevitable they are going to be short of sharpness and you don't want that when trying to shut the back door. That and picking RLC to start were not Frank's best decisions but he also got his changes right as he hooked the two worst performers which turned the game. So all part of the learning curve I guess.

13 hours ago, loz said:

I thought it was a strange change by Lampard. Under normal circumstances it made perfect sense but these are slightly odd times and bringing on a rusty defender to shore things up didn't make much sense to me. Inevitable they are going to be short of sharpness and you don't want that when trying to shut the back door. That and picking RLC to start were not Frank's best decisions but he also got his changes right as he hooked the two worst performers which turned the game. So all part of the learning curve I guess.

I know RLC had a poor game but I'm sure he was performing well in training, else Lampard would never have picked him... 

48 minutes ago, Shweaves said:

I know RLC had a poor game but I'm sure he was performing well in training, else Lampard would never have picked him... 

Plus he was off the back of a couple of goals in the friendlies

He's got a long  way to go. Defensively i think one would have the call him poor currently. All over the place again yesterday and i don't particularly like his lackadaisical ways defensively.

 

13 minutes ago, Sindre said:

He's got a long  way to go. Defensively i think one would have the call him poor currently. All over the place again yesterday and i don't particularly like his lackadaisical ways defensively.

 

I think he improved in the second half. But he needs to get into the game quicker. 

Defensively he's poor, although he did make up a bit at the other end, it was a bad miss by Giroud to make a mess up James' pin point cross

He seems closer to Alexander-Arnold than he is to Wan Bissaka in the sense that he's good at going forward and putting in crosses but hes not very good defensively.

Still has a way to go, but hes only 20 so its only natural. With more and more game time and not being as rusty, he should be fine

Needs a commanding/quick CB next to him. No surprise Alonso looked best when Tomori was behind covering him. Same needed for Reece.