5 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Ecstatic that he is fit. Would love to see him partner Colwill at CB some time. Two cool heads. 

Can one of them adapt to be the right sided CB though.

2 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Can one of them adapt to be the right sided CB though.

Badiashile has experience playing there at youth level. Think its about comfort in positioning your body to use your weaker foot when needed. I've already seen Badiashile play some direct passes with his right foot last season. 

We'll have to wait and see. That would be my ideal partnership. 

54 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Can one of them adapt to be the right sided CB though.

Loads of teams have two right footed players playing in a back line together. Terry was right footed and played on the left for years. No different for two left footed players.

58 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Loads of teams have two right footed players playing in a back line together. Terry was right footed and played on the left for years. No different for two left footed players.

Is true. Jt trained his left peg to be brilliant too though, fantastic range of passing.

Is more positionally if they adapt to being on the other side, having just one player to right rather than 2 and vice versa. Will see, hopefully it works since we don't have Fofana.

I`ve seen this right footed, left footed CB thing around lately, just more inane bollocks. For decades it was never a problem, it was a nice to have if you could pair a lefty with a righty but its suddenly become a thing where having a righty on the left is seen as a major problem. IF you have a CB who cant play on one side due to being certain footed then he shouldn't be playing anywhere near at the top level of the sport ffs. Playing non league if a CB had said he could`nt play left because he`s a righty he would have been laughed out the club.

19 hours ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Loads of teams have two right footed players playing in a back line together. Terry was right footed and played on the left for years. No different for two left footed players.

Its weird, I’ve seen countless examples of two right footed central defenders and quite a few right footed left backs - but never the opposite. Not even once. Is it just a matter of there being more right footed players than left?

1 hour ago, AndyDowsleftflank said:

Its weird, I’ve seen countless examples of two right footed central defenders and quite a few right footed left backs - but never the opposite. Not even once. Is it just a matter of there being more right footed players than left?

Pretty much that yeah. 

I'm sorry for anyone that will find this to be offensive but Badiashile shouldn't have started the match today at St. James Park.

T.Silva did the job for 2 CBs today and in the end made a terrible mistake due to having so much responsibility while Badiashile was taking walks and touching grass.

Am I going to be the first one to ask, what is Poch doing?

Nope. Clearly wasn’t sharp enough to be thrown in like that. 

4 minutes ago, Gol15 said:

I'm sorry for anyone that will find this to be offensive but Badiashile shouldn't have started the match today at St. James Park.

T.Silva did the job for 2 CBs today and in the end made a terrible mistake due to having so much responsibility while Badiashile was taking walks and touching grass.

Am I going to be the first one to ask, what is Poch doing?

Pochettino has never been a good defensive coach. Even when he had Vertonghen and Alderweirald at CB at Tottenham, I still thought they conceded too many simple goals.

Humbling after people have spent months pretending he's a good centre back.

He might be one,  he's not bad but it's always funny how injured players become superstars when they're out for a while and results are poor.

Back down to earth now and he'll have to improve.

4 minutes ago, Whats_The_Mata? said:

Humbling after people have spent months pretending he's a good centre back.

He might be one,  he's not bad but it's always funny how injured players become superstars when they're out for a while and results are poor.

Back down to earth now and he'll have to improve.

Pretending? The genuine consensus is that Badiashile is our best CB, which is true. Even under Potter people were going ballistic how we had gone registering Koulibaly over him in the Champions League.  

He's been thrown into one of the biggest matches of the season despite being out all season. 

Why drop Disasi after such a good game vs City?

1 minute ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Pretending? The genuine consensus is that Badiashile is our best CB, which is true. Even under Potter people were going ballistic how we had gone registering Koulibaly over him in the Champions League.  

He's been thrown into one of the biggest matches of the season despite being out all season. 

Is it?  Prior to today it was Silva.  At the start of the season it was Colwill.   Under the video the club posted of training this week the part timer Fofana is our best defender on the rare occasions he plays.

All these players bar Silva who's proven quality are amazingly better when they don't actually play for us.

When we watch them each week they're universally not the idea people have of them solely in their minds.

4 minutes ago, Whats_The_Mata? said:

Is it?  Prior to today it was Silva.  At the start of the season it was Colwill.   Under the video the club posted of training this week the part timer Fofana is our best defender on the rare occasions he plays.

All these players bar Silva who's proven quality are amazingly better when they don't actually play for us.

When we watch them each week they're universally not the idea people have of them solely in their minds.

Ask any Chelsea fan here and the majority would say they'd want Fofana+Badiashile as their CB pairing. Some exclusive would say Badiashile + Colwill. 

Loads of us have been vocal of this being the perfect summer to let Silva go and its hardly unsurprising he's the common denominator in us conceding 60% of our 2004/2005 goals in the last 3 matches alone. 

He's f**king 40. 

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27 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Ask any Chelsea fan here and the majority would say they'd want Fofana+Badiashile as their CB pairing. Some exclusive would say Badiashile + Colwill. 

Loads of us have been vocal of this being the perfect summer to let Silva go and its hardly unsurprising he's the common denominator in us conceding 60% of our 2004/2005 goals in the last 3 matches alone. 

He's f**king 40. 

I don't know, I personally don't even rate Fofana, never even wanted us to sign him. Badiashile had a good start, I don't understand why he was dropped. I definitely wasn't banking him on being a guaranteed first choice going forward though, we hadn't seen enough of him.

Silva will need to slowly be phased out soon, but until these players start showing they can be capable replacements, that won't be happening.

2 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Nope. Clearly wasn’t sharp enough to be thrown in like that. 

He also missed a decent opportunity with a free header at 1-1. I remember thinking at the time that we could rue misses like that one, and Conor's.

2 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Ask any Chelsea fan here and the majority would say they'd want Fofana+Badiashile as their CB pairing. Some exclusive would say Badiashile + Colwill. 

Loads of us have been vocal of this being the perfect summer to let Silva go and its hardly unsurprising he's the common denominator in us conceding 60% of our 2004/2005 goals in the last 3 matches alone. 

He's f**king 40. 

I know the opponents have been a lot better but I don't think it's a coincidence we've conceded a lot more goals and chances since Colwill has been out of the side.

3 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Why drop Disasi after such a good game vs City?

That was my question. He has his critics, but came off his best ever game for Chelsea. Was immense. 

40 minutes ago, Argo said:

I know the opponents have been a lot better but I don't think it's a coincidence we've conceded a lot more goals and chances since Colwill has been out of the side.

Colwill had his bad moments this season too but when fit I think he should be starting. Ideally at CB and not LB though.

5 hours ago, Argo said:

I know the opponents have been a lot better but I don't think it's a coincidence we've conceded a lot more goals and chances since Colwill has been out of the side.

I think this says more  about who replace Colwill 

9 hours ago, Gol15 said:

I'm sorry for anyone that will find this to be offensive but Badiashile shouldn't have started the match today at St. James Park.

T.Silva did the job for 2 CBs today and in the end made a terrible mistake due to having so much responsibility while Badiashile was taking walks and touching grass.

Am I going to be the first one to ask, what is Poch doing?

😱😱😱

 

Badi 1st real 90 min after long break, struggle at time. Normal stuff. Next 

4 minutes ago, Bob stark said:

Badi 1st real 90 min after long break, struggle at time. Normal stuff. Next 

Yes but why risk him to start today after a long layoff, when Disasi had one of his best games for us against City?

3 minutes ago, forbzy said:

Yes but why risk him to start today after a long layoff, when Disasi had one of his best games for us against City?

Maybe disasi is unfit? 

Did somebody ask poch about it?