2 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

It's pure coincidence, doesn't mean anything terrible will happen v WBA does it ?

Let’s hope ol’ two-goal doesn’t roll back the years and live up to his moniker!

17 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

Are you going to continue to let him make a mockery of the stats @Gol15?

It's only valid if it has the socks factor involved, like this it's just meh

22 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

Are you going to continue to let him make a mockery of the stats @Gol15?

he passed the torch onto me because of people like you making a mockery of his stats

On 01/04/2021 at 08:47, rocker_joker said:

Timo..Timo. Has anyone seen his miss for Germany today. probably one of his worst so far. Cost his team a game.

Actually Gnabry missed one in the first half just about as bad. 

Mount, kova, havertz played all the internationals I think, but Werner got a good rest. Kante likely unavailable but Jorginho and Silva trained. We should put a decent team on the field. Mount is improving steadily. 

2 hours ago, Gol15 said:

If he doesn't improve at least a little bit next season we might just decide to cut our loses and if we managed to do that with Morata we will manage with Timo as well... Hopefully it doesn't come to that though.

Add him to the list of this seasons players to ‘cut losses on’ then;

Kepa 

Bakayoko

Drinkwater

Batshuai

Zappacosta

Rahman

plus the ones that didn’t cost so much;

Van Grinkle 

Barkley

Kenedy

Think Marina and her ‘back of a fag packet’ informed scouting team needs an overhaul , cause their success rate at bringing in (and retaining) talent is f**king awful imo ?

 

 

1 hour ago, Munkworth said:

Let’s hope ol’ two-goal doesn’t roll back the years and live up to his moniker!

I had to look at their squad to figure that one out.

Nailed on, from two corners.

gotta ask, what's the sock thing.?

7 minutes ago, Paddy said:

Add him to the list of this seasons players to ‘cut losses on’ then;

Kepa 

Bakayoko

Drinkwater

Batshuai

Zappacosta

Rahman

plus the ones that didn’t cost so much;

Van Grinkle 

Barkley

Kenedy

Think Marina and her ‘back of a fag packet’ informed scouting team needs an overhaul , cause their success rate at bringing in (and retaining) talent is f**king awful imo ?

 

 

Real.sh*te right there.

Sack the scouts, use our Academy

1 hour ago, The Rising Sun said:

Real.sh*te right there.

Sack the scouts, use our Academy

If you are old enough and live in the UK, you might remember Alan Hanson’s famous line about ‘you’ll never win anything with kids’ - he was making reference to manure’s crop of youth players breaking into their first team in the early ‘90’s ; Scholes, Neville, Giggs, Beckham and Butt .

Lets be honest, with the exception of Butt, home grown players of their quality and ability don’t come around too often and definitely not from the same club at the same time. Currently only MM , imo, falls into their category of ability and excellence - now let’s see him continue to perform at his current level for the next 5 + years to be truly comparable - before him only JT and Le Saux since the 70’s ? 

So expecting our academy to be a production line punching out top 4 and CL standard players is delusional and a pipe dream, it is for most clubs and that’s why the premier league has almost 70% foreign players in its teams.

If we want to sit at the highest table , we will need to bring in talent, I think we need to give our methods of who and how we do this a complete overhaul cause it’s not working at the minute, again, imo ? 

 

 

Edited April 2, 20215 yr by Paddy

3 hours ago, ozboy said:

Mount, kova, havertz played all the internationals I think, but Werner got a good rest. Kante likely unavailable but Jorginho and Silva trained. We should put a decent team on the field. Mount is improving steadily. 

Will be interested to hear who is out due to the international games.

Mendy

Dave Christensen Rudiger Alonso

Gilmour Kovacic 

CHO Mount Pulisic

Werner

2 hours ago, The Rising Sun said:

gotta ask, what's the sock thing.?

If you have to ask then you’re already lost. 

1 hour ago, Paddy said:

If you are old enough and live in the UK, you might remember Alan Hanson’s famous line about ‘you’ll never win anything with kids’ - he was making reference to manure’s crop of youth players breaking into their first team in the early ‘90’s ; Scholes, Neville, Giggs, Beckham and Butt .

Lets be honest, with the exception of Butt, home grown players of their quality and ability don’t come around too often and definitely not from the same club at the same time. Currently only MM , imo, falls into their category of ability and excellence - now let’s see him continue to perform at his current level for the next 5 + years to be truly comparable - before him only JT and Le Saux since the 70’s ? 

So expecting our academy to be a production line punching out top 4 and CL standard players is delusional and a pipe dream, it is for most clubs and that’s why the premier league has almost 70% foreign players in its teams.

If we want to sit at the highest table , we will need to bring in talent, I think we need to give our methods of who and how we do this a complete overhaul cause it’s not working at the minute, again, imo ? 

 

 

Delusion and pipe dreams are part of the football fan mentality , 

Unfortunately I am old enough to remember the dour Scot's comment.ayerda

But all those expensive players out there are all former Academy players from elsewhere..

Anyway, im.off for a beer and a pipedream, have a good Easter mate

 

 

 

 

5 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

If you have to ask then you’re already lost. 

What a big tease you are !

 

Edited April 2, 20215 yr by The Rising Sun

32 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

What a big tease you are !

 

At last Chelsea are back. Lets hope we haven't lost any momentum. Can we start Giroud for this please Tommy.

Based on unreliable media reading I am led to believe several will miss out due to injury, travel and game fatigue and being saved for Porto. So far this list includes:

 

Rudiger

CHO

Kante

Kovacic

Jorginho

Mount

Ziyech

Havertz

 

Huge hit in midfield if true, not so much elsewhere. Could see a team like:

 

Mendy

 

Azpi

Silva

Zouma

 

James

Gilmour

Anjorin

Alonso

 

Pulisic

Abraham

Werner

 

Midfield looks week but not sure who else we have thar could play there.

Time to go back on my word and actually watch this game. I'd said I wouldn't watch the early kick offs because we are always lethargic and tend to draw but 2 weeks have starved me of some Tommy 2 cool and Chelsea action.

Only question for me is who starts up top. Giroud and Zouma are said to have travelled a lot and so I'd expect them to be rested at least from the start. Tammy has been injured and is now fit, could be a good opportunity to give him some valuable minutes and emphasise his importance in the squad still by giving him a start.

CHO back in training could start as a wing back since we're playing against a team we expect to dominate possesion. Pulisic looked pretty good on duty and could also displace him on the right or start further fwd depending on who is up top.

With Kante injured I expect Kova and Jorgehh to start but Mason could also get a nod in the pivot. However, he's played a lot of football and we can afford for him to have a rest so maybe he starts on the bench.

He could look to start Thiago and give him some game time, Andreas is also in inspired form and we could see the two start alongside Cesar.

I'm going to go with 3421 Mendy, Cesar, Silva & Andreas. Jorginho and Kova in the pivot alonside CHO/Pulisic and Alonso. Ziyech, Werner and Kai/Tammy up top.

            

Edited April 2, 20215 yr by LongtimerLurker

26 minutes ago, LongtimerLurker said:

Time to go back on my word and actually watch this game. I'd said I wouldn't watch the early kick offs because we are always lethargic and tend to draw but 2 weeks have starved me of some Tommy 2 cool and Chelsea action.

Only question for me is who starts up top. Giroud and Zouma are said to have travelled a lot and so I'd expect them to be rested at least from the start. Tammy has been injured and is now fit, could be a good opportunity to give him some valuable minutes and emphasise his importance in the squad still by giving him a start.

CHO back in training could start as a wing back since we're playing against a team we expect to dominate possesion. Pulisic looked pretty good on duty and could also displace him on the right or start further fwd depending on who is up top.

With Kante injured I expect Kova and Jorgehh to start but Mason could also get a nod in the pivot. However, he's played a lot of football and we can afford for him to have a rest so maybe he starts on the bench.

He could look to start Thiago and give him some game time, Andreas is also in inspired form and we could see the two start alongside Cesar.

I'm going to go with 3421 Mendy, Cesar, Silva & Andreas. Jorginho and Kova in the pivot alonside CHO/Pulisic and Alonso. Ziyech, Werner and Kai/Tammy up top.

            

How can you not watch any game whatever time it is.   Do you walk around trying to distract yourself or are you able to just forget the game is on...  I couldn't sit around knowing we were playing and not watch.    :0)

Pretty easly line up to predict with the international break injury and fatigue

                         Mendy

          Azpi       Christensen   Zouma

James       Jorginho     Kovacic        Alonso

       Ziyech        Havertz        Werner

 

 

Timo hatrick

6 hours ago, guddy69 said:

How can you not watch any game whatever time it is.   Do you walk around trying to distract yourself or are you able to just forget the game is on...  I couldn't sit around knowing we were playing and not watch.    :0)

 My lockdown schedule means waking up at 12:30 is early for me ?

Match Day!

Come On Chelsea!!

8 hours ago, The Don Antonio said:

Pretty easly line up to predict with the international break injury and fatigue

                         Mendy

          Azpi       Christensen   Zouma

James       Jorginho     Kovacic        Alonso

       Ziyech        Havertz        Werner

 

 

I fux with this lineup

Come on you Blues !