I think that Arteta covered more ground yesterday than Aubameyang, although to be fair so did I and I only went for a piss and made a cuppa at half time.

For the second home League game in a row, I was too incensed at the final whistle to post. I have since watched most of the game again and am honestly at a loss to know where we go from here. I list below the main (but not only) areas of concern that I took away from yesterday.

• Injuries are too serious, too often and players are too slow to come back to fitness.  We can't ignore that Potter has been very unlucky since arriving with injuries. Probably the three best players at the Club Kante, James and Chilwell are out for this year and our best hope for sorting out the defence Fofana is also going to be out long term. OK we have sacked Biosca and the medics and bought in a bloke whose claim to fame is nursing the Foo Fighters guitarist back onto the stage 🥺
• It honestly looked yesterday as though nobody had a clue what they were supposed to be doing. This is DEFINITELY 100% on Potter. The tactics are risable. Look it up, it means "provoking laughter through being ludicrous" I really thought that GP was a good coach, but when you pick a team so devoid of structure, effort, tactical nous, cohesion and passion, I am starting to doubt that he is.
• My old chestnut, THERE IS NO LEADER in our team or squad. It's pointless harping back to the days of Cech, Terry, Lamps, Makelele and Drogba, but I will as the point is, if we had just one player with a semblance of Leadership that these guys possessed, we might even be OK. To say that Arsenal now have more leadership on the pitch than us, is bloody painful as I used to laugh at their weakness.
• The remainder of the squad, once discounting the long term injuries, is frankly one of the worst squads that Chelsea have had for 20 years. Singularly and more importantly collectively, they are not good enough. I am not embarrassed to single out; RLC, Cucurella, KK, Havertz, Pulisic and Ziyech as just not being of the calibre that Chelsea Football Club should consider.
• The last point is on Boehly. He spent upwards of £200m and clearly did not know what the hell he was doing. Yes, we needed to freshen up the squad, but it really feels as though ZERO thought was given to the recruitment. Did TT have any say, was Boehly talking to GP at that point? If he was, that is a damning indictment. It is imperative that we get a Director of Football or harness the former Brighton scouting network, as at the moment, I would rather have the BHA Squad than the one that we own.

13 minutes ago, coombsie said:

For the second home League game in a row, I was too incensed at the final whistle to post. I have since watched most of the game again and am honestly at a loss to know where we go from here. I list below the main (but not only) areas of concern that I took away from yesterday.

• Injuries are too serious, too often and players are too slow to come back to fitness.  We can't ignore that Potter has been very unlucky since arriving with injuries. Probably the three best players at the Club Kante, James and Chilwell are out for this year and our best hope for sorting out the defence Fofana is also going to be out long term. OK we have sacked Biosca and the medics and bought in a bloke whose claim to fame is nursing the Foo Fighters guitarist back onto the stage 🥺
• It honestly looked yesterday as though nobody had a clue what they were supposed to be doing. This is DEFINITELY 100% on Potter. The tactics are risable. Look it up, it means "provoking laughter through being ludicrous" I really thought that GP was a good coach, but when you pick a team so devoid of structure, effort, tactical nous, cohesion and passion, I am starting to doubt that he is.
• My old chestnut, THERE IS NO LEADER in our team or squad. It's pointless harping back to the days of Cech, Terry, Lamps, Makelele and Drogba, but I will as the point is, if we had just one player with a semblance of Leadership that these guys possessed, we might even be OK. To say that Arsenal now have more leadership on the pitch than us, is bloody painful as I used to laugh at their weakness.
• The remainder of the squad, once discounting the long term injuries, is frankly one of the worst squads that Chelsea have had for 20 years. Singularly and more importantly collectively, they are not good enough. I am not embarrassed to single out; RLC, Cucurella, KK, Havertz, Pulisic and Ziyech as just not being of the calibre that Chelsea Football Club should consider.
• The last point is on Boehly. He spent upwards of £200m and clearly did not know what the hell he was doing. Yes, we needed to freshen up the squad, but it really feels as though ZERO thought was given to the recruitment. Did TT have any say, was Boehly talking to GP at that point? If he was, that is a damning indictment. It is imperative that we get a Director of Football or harness the former Brighton scouting network, as at the moment, I would rather have the BHA Squad than the one that we own.

Top post. Nothing more to say other than:

1 hour ago, coombsie said:

For the second home League game in a row, I was too incensed at the final whistle to post. I have since watched most of the game again and am honestly at a loss to know where we go from here. I list below the main (but not only) areas of concern that I took away from yesterday.

• Injuries are too serious, too often and players are too slow to come back to fitness.  We can't ignore that Potter has been very unlucky since arriving with injuries. Probably the three best players at the Club Kante, James and Chilwell are out for this year and our best hope for sorting out the defence Fofana is also going to be out long term. OK we have sacked Biosca and the medics and bought in a bloke whose claim to fame is nursing the Foo Fighters guitarist back onto the stage 🥺
• It honestly looked yesterday as though nobody had a clue what they were supposed to be doing. This is DEFINITELY 100% on Potter. The tactics are risable. Look it up, it means "provoking laughter through being ludicrous" I really thought that GP was a good coach, but when you pick a team so devoid of structure, effort, tactical nous, cohesion and passion, I am starting to doubt that he is.
• My old chestnut, THERE IS NO LEADER in our team or squad. It's pointless harping back to the days of Cech, Terry, Lamps, Makelele and Drogba, but I will as the point is, if we had just one player with a semblance of Leadership that these guys possessed, we might even be OK. To say that Arsenal now have more leadership on the pitch than us, is bloody painful as I used to laugh at their weakness.
• The remainder of the squad, once discounting the long term injuries, is frankly one of the worst squads that Chelsea have had for 20 years. Singularly and more importantly collectively, they are not good enough. I am not embarrassed to single out; RLC, Cucurella, KK, Havertz, Pulisic and Ziyech as just not being of the calibre that Chelsea Football Club should consider.
• The last point is on Boehly. He spent upwards of £200m and clearly did not know what the hell he was doing. Yes, we needed to freshen up the squad, but it really feels as though ZERO thought was given to the recruitment. Did TT have any say, was Boehly talking to GP at that point? If he was, that is a damning indictment. It is imperative that we get a Director of Football or harness the former Brighton scouting network, as at the moment, I would rather have the BHA Squad than the one that we own.

PS  I left f***ing Auba out of the list of players with no place at the Club

Haven’t watched it back yet as I found it hard enough from my seat at the game! There is so much wrong at the moment it’s going to be tough to change quickly. I’ve done my grassroots qualifications as a coach and sitting watching the game, there looks like no idea on patterns of play.  
 

We passed it sideways back forwards ten yards then back to Mendy to then hit a difficult percentage ball to keep possession and lose it. We couldn’t beat the press, long to Auba he couldn’t hold it up. Going long we didn’t win second balls. When we had possession, Arsenal set little traps to leave wide players free to receive the ball then pounced and won the ball. Sterling, Dave, Auba, Kai, cucerella were tackled or lost the ball so often.

Thought we played liked the City home game last year, went out to defend and scared to attack in case of the counter. From a fans point of view with people posting who they don’t want to start we barely have a five aside team!

The owners may be new but we can see that things haven’t been good for some years now. Potter may have time to work on things, looking at old games and planning ahead but with hardly any players around the extra time isn’t going to be that helpful.

Players have a lot to answer, as a lot are playing for strong countries at international level.

Why do so many people criticise Sterling, Auba, Cucurella etc in their match analysis but conveniently fail to bring up Mount? 

55 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Why do so many people criticise Sterling, Auba, Cucurella etc in their match analysis but conveniently fail to bring up Mount? 

Did Sterling, Auba, Cucurella, play an absolute sublime pass that split the city defence and assisted in a Champions League final winner ?

 

15 minutes ago, coco said:

Did Sterling, Auba, Cucurella, play an absolute sublime pass that split the city defence and assisted in a Champions League final winner ?

 

No but they won Player of the Season two years running, right? That’s given them a bit of credit at least?

14 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

No but they won Player of the Season two years running, right? That’s given them a bit of credit at least?

Mount has 2 goals and 1 assist from open play in 44 matches vs the Big 6 clubs and he's cemented in an attacking position.

Why he's not labeled as not good enough along with the others is curious.

 

 

56 minutes ago, HonoreMeiBalsac said:

Mount has 2 goals and 1 assist from open play in 44 matches vs the Big 6 clubs and he's cemented in an attacking position.

Why he's not labeled as not good enough along with the others is curious.

Two posts up. His current form is shockingly sh*te but currently it’s more of the exception rather than the rule. 

5 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Why do so many people criticise Sterling, Auba, Cucurella etc in their match analysis but conveniently fail to bring up Mount? 

 

4 hours ago, HonoreMeiBalsac said:

Mount has 2 goals and 1 assist from open play in 44 matches vs the Big 6 clubs and he's cemented in an attacking position.

Why he's not labeled as not good enough along with the others is curious.

 

 

You fellas are joking right?

Aside form him being a Cobham product, which almost always means more patience from the fan base, there is also the huge disadvantage he had in life being born in the swamp land known as Portsmouth.

That he was able to pull himself out of that mire and be able to put on the Chelsea shirt is an amazing story of hard work overcoming adversity.

I mean a lot of the blokes that are spawned there just go on to become fat w@nkers....

27 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

 

You fellas are joking right?

Aside form him being a Cobham product, which almost always means more patience from the fan base, there is also the huge disadvantage he had in life being born in the swamp land known as Portsmouth

Bit rude, isn't that where @CaitlinCFC lives?

17 minutes ago, SydneyChelsea said:

Bit rude, isn't that where @CaitlinCFC lives?

No idea on that, you would have to ask @MunkworthPI...

8 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Why do so many people criticise Sterling, Auba, Cucurella etc in their match analysis but conveniently fail to bring up Mount? 

Because he ran his ass off defensively 

7 hours ago, HonoreMeiBalsac said:

Mount has 2 goals and 1 assist from open play in 44 matches vs the Big 6 clubs and he's cemented in an attacking position.

Why he's not labeled as not good enough along with the others is curious.

 

 

He's one of the first I label with that... be better in goal as he almost always keeps a clean sheet.

Edited November 8, 20223 yr by Bebe1980

9 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Why do so many people criticise Sterling, Auba, Cucurella etc in their match analysis but conveniently fail to bring up Mount? 

Because "all round" Mount is 1. a better player 2. more committed, 3. a tryer 4. He delivers more often than not

4 hours ago, axman2526 said:

I mean a lot of the blokes that are spawned there just go on to become fat w@nkers....

6 hours ago, axman2526 said:

 

You fellas are joking right?

Aside form him being a Cobham product, which almost always means more patience from the fan base, there is also the huge disadvantage he had in life being born in the swamp land known as Portsmouth.

That he was able to pull himself out of that mire and be able to put on the Chelsea shirt is an amazing story of hard work overcoming adversity.

I mean a lot of the blokes that are spawned there just go on to become fat w@nkers....

Do you bloody mind,I was born in Portsmouth and I can assure you I'm not a fat w@nker.

P.s maybe a w@nker,but definitely not fat.🤪

8 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

Bit rude, isn't that where @CaitlinCFC lives?

No. I have some family there if that counts.

8 hours ago, axman2526 said:

No idea on that, you would have to ask @MunkworthPI...

He can write anything but I won't see his replies. 

14 minutes ago, CaitlinCFC said:

He can write anything but I won't see his replies. 

Munkys on ignore? Blimey, thats next level Feisty, I almost feel sorry for him!

 

I was reading that Rio put the boot in on Arsenal fans saying well done but it was mainly Chelsea’s B Team due to injuries! 

Not that we should expect great words from that f**kwit, but still, he isn’t far off!

7 hours ago, Bob stark said:

Because he ran his ass off defensively 

He also got dispossessed more times than he actually made successful passes but hey ho, everything is alright because he worked his arse off. 

Again, why are we rewarding the bare minimum? Have our standards dropped?

6 hours ago, coombsie said:

Because "all round" Mount is 1. a better player 2. more committed, 3. a tryer 4. He delivers more often than not

No, he doesn't. Scores against a bottom half club he manages to pull the wool over your eyes for another 10 matches. 

Given the amount of minutes he's been given and the little impact provided, if he wasn't a Cobham product people would be asking him to get sold. I've never seen a player more protected than Mason Mount.

1 hour ago, CaitlinCFC said:

No. I have some family there if that counts.

He can write anything but I won't see his replies. 

I really don't believe he was trying to offend you Caitlin, was attempting to be funny, which he often misses the mark on the to be fair. Munk has been a decent fella in my time on here, bit of a moron at times but a harmless one for the most part.

Again I don't think he meant to offend you, I will leave it at that.

46 minutes ago, Mod said:

I was reading that Rio put the boot in on Arsenal fans saying well done but it was mainly Chelsea’s B Team due to injuries! 

Not that we should expect great words from that f**kwit, but still, he isn’t far off!

That is just his bitterness from the days of flying pizza. It is killing him Arsenal are top and United continue to struggle.

1 hour ago, Mod said:

Munkys on ignore? Blimey, thats next level Feisty, I almost feel sorry for him!

 

Not that you have not been tempted to put both Munk and myself on ignore at times lol