And not to back Enzo in anyway here every fan have their right to either help the team or not if you pay the ticket. So each of their own.

This young squad more than ever need its fans backing even though they don't produce. I don't think anyone can deny that.

Maresca is literally implying the home fans' booing led to Ipswich scoring their goals because it forced our players to play it long and not "stick to the plan". The long balls led to Ipswich countering and scoring.

4 minutes ago, evissy said:

This young squad more than ever need its fans backing even though they don't produce.

What an utterly strange oxymoron.

11 minutes ago, evissy said:

21 minutes ago, yaz said:

"I think we lost confidence because we conceded because of the environment. Our goalkeeper plays short and then he goes long for the second goal because of the environment".

How is that slagging off fans?

Not slagging off, blaming! He insinuated that Sanchez played it long because of the fans (environment), which led to the goal!

When he starts saying things like that to protect himself, and shifting the blame to fans for poor performance, it shows what he is!

A big part of the problem is that Sanchez isn't playing it long to start with!

4 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Maresca is literally implying the home fans' booing led to Ipswich scoring their goals because it forced our players to play it long and not "stick to the plan". The long balls led to Ipswich countering and scoring.

What an utterly strange oxymoron.

And he is probably correct to be honest but I don't see the benefit in outright saying it.

Just like saying we are not title contenders, he seems to have a knack for saying the wrong things at the wrong times.

4 minutes ago, Remodez said:

And he is probably correct to be honest but I don't see the benefit in outright saying it.

Just like saying we are not title contenders, he seems to have a knack for saying the wrong things at the wrong times.

So what was his excuse in the away fixture against Ipswich with no home fans booing?

Looking at outside factors to blame your own shortcomings is the definition of cowardice.

Just now, Sconnie Blue said:

Maresca is literally implying the home fans' booing led to Ipswich scoring their goals because it forced our players to play it long and not "stick to the plan". The long balls led to Ipswich countering and scoring.

What an utterly strange oxymoron.

So how does booing help the side of winning matches? Has it ever helped?

Oxymoron...so again I have this weird idea of us having a very young side which is just assembled 'two weeks ago' and has its ____ (enter a large number here) coach who is first season Premier League coach. I don't see how we can demand that much of consistency or major results of them.

Now we 'boo' the coach out and reset anything we have accumulated this season.

Please take this post with a slight pinch of salt 😅

4 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

So what was his excuse in the away fixture against Ipswich with no home fans booing?

Looking at outside factors to blame your own shortcomings is the definition of cowardice.

I think both things can be true.

The booing didn't help, even if not directed at the players personally more out of frustration, and Enzo is simply not good enough.

42 minutes ago, evissy said:

If I may point it out.

Scoring lots of goals had us second in the league table 3 points behind Liverpool heading into Xmas. What was wrong with that given where it had put us in the table and why did it need changing?

Maresca on current form would be beaten in the league position by a David Moyes side and he won Europes third tier competition with West Spam. You really have been drinking from the blueCo Koolaid fountain.

Edited April 14, 20251 yr by bluetrooper

One of the things that really gets me, is when we're attacking, we're near the opposition box, and we pass it backwards again.

The whole point of that is to go back and move the ball to a different space, in order to go forward again.. to where we just f**king were. Forwards.

Maybe i'm just not hipster enough to understand it. But it seems stupid to me. If you're attacking, and you want to score a goal, go forwards most of the time.

10 minutes ago, evissy said:

So how does booing help the side of winning matches? Has it ever helped?

Oxymoron...so again I have this weird idea of us having a very young side which is just assembled 'two weeks ago' and has its ____ (enter a large number here) coach who is first season Premier League coach. I don't see how we can demand that much of consistency or major results of them.

Now we 'boo' the coach out and reset anything we have accumulated this season.

Please take this post with a slight pinch of salt 😅

Glad you’ve now accepted he’s blaming the home fans for the goals.

This squad has been together for almost 700 days. Don’t give me the tripe narrative it’s just been assembled. What’s PSG’s excuse?

I think you’re intelligent enough to understand the root of our frustration is well above Maresca, and he is merely a man that should’ve never been hired. We were a few points off a Champions League place last season and this season we are projected to be 9 points worse off on the final day vs last season.

Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna has been saying nice things about the project, and that we will have a "really strong" team in 4 or 5 years.

Guess we know someone looking to take Marescas job.

I don’t see how can he be defended anymore.

This poor form (both performances and results) have been going for 4 months now. If it was a month of bad results, I would say it’s reactionary but he looks like he doesn’t know how to fix it.

What’s the guarantee this won’t continue into next season - a squad overhaul again (?), because he clearly wants to play one way and it’s seen he can’t get this particular group of players to do it.

1 hour ago, evissy said:

So how does booing help the side of winning matches? Has it ever helped?

Oxymoron...so again I have this weird idea of us having a very young side which is just assembled 'two weeks ago' and has its ____ (enter a large number here) coach who is first season Premier League coach. I don't see how we can demand that much of consistency or major results of them.

Now we 'boo' the coach out and reset anything we have accumulated this season.

Please take this post with a slight pinch of salt 😅

Maybe - just maybe, Maresca will hear the boo's and the penny will drop that we don't was not to see his boring, lifeless, passing it around 500 times between the goalie and defender sh*tshow.

If boo'ing helps Maresca open his eyes, and change the teams style, mindset and tempo for the better (faster, more progressive, less messing around with the ball at the back) - then it will be worth it.

If boo'ing helps the players go rogue and disobey Maresca (i.e say 'NO we are not going to piss around with the ball at the back mindlessly") then it will be worth it.

If boo'ing makes Sanchez go long more often, and in doing so, stops him giving the ball away and giving away chances - then it will be worth it.

1 hour ago, evissy said:

So how does booing help the side of winning matches? Has it ever helped?

Oxymoron...so again I have this weird idea of us having a very young side which is just assembled 'two weeks ago' and has its ____ (enter a large number here) coach who is first season Premier League coach. I don't see how we can demand that much of consistency or major results of them.

Now we 'boo' the coach out and reset anything we have accumulated this season.

Please take this post with a slight pinch of salt 😅

Dont expect or demand consistency or major results from the kids. What I do demand is a coach who lets these high ceiling kids develop and learn, and play in a way that supports our long term interests, playing football that is fast, progressive, and stopping the sh*tshow, dour, slow, predictable, stale dross he has been serving up.

57 minutes ago, Zeta said:

One of the things that really gets me, is when we're attacking, we're near the opposition box, and we pass it backwards again.

The whole point of that is to go back and move the ball to a different space, in order to go forward again.. to where we just f**king were. Forwards.

Maybe i'm just not hipster enough to understand it. But it seems stupid to me. If you're attacking, and you want to score a goal, go forwards most of the time.

Ok - I will take the bait....

Let us begin with the foundational structure. A team committed to recycling is essentially engaged in a carefully choreographed ritual of positional oscillation—players ebb and flow across zonal channels, each movement a brushstroke in a vast tactical mural invisible to the untrained eye. The pivot (or "regista," if you're sipping grappa and overusing Serie A YouTube compilations) orchestrates this symphony from the central nexus, often shifting the ball from one flank to the other with surgical lateralism. The idea is not to break lines per se, but to coax them into breaking themselves.

Now, the crucial mechanics of recycling hinge upon the sacred trust between centre-backs and their midfield lieutenants. Here, the ball is often transferred backwards—not out of fear or indecision, but as a calculated act of strategic regression. The objective? To manipulate the opposition’s pressing structure into overcommitting, thus creating ephemeral vacuums of space between their compacted lines. In simpler terms: draw them out, then play through them.

This act—this brave, almost sacrificial retreat—is often misinterpreted by the pub-going masses as “pointless passing around the back.” But these backward passes are, in truth, encoded invitations to chaos, subtle lures for the press, like moths to a very slow, sideways flame.

Key to this operatic recycling process is the role of the inverted full-back, a player whose existential purpose is to appear where no full-back should, drifting infield with the ghostly menace of a Victorian spectre. These players receive the ball under pressure, rotate it back to the centre-half, who shifts it again, only for the ball to return to where it started—like Sisyphus with a shinpad.

At its best, the process yields an almost tantric release: the opposition is drawn out, their shape dismembered, and in a moment of divine alignment, the ball finds itself at the feet of the creative fulcrum (the 8.5, if you will) who slots it between two bewildered centre-mids to a marauding wing-back that nobody saw coming. The ball was recycled; the universe realigned; your number nine is suddenly through on goal. He misses, of course (it is Jackson after all), but that’s not the point.

Indeed, to question the backwards pass is to question quantum mechanics, to doubt the flow of time, to fundamentally misunderstand that control is not the same as progression. Possession is, above all else, a philosophical state. It's not just where the ball is, but where it could be in five passes if you just believe hard enough.

However—and here is the grim irony of it all—there comes a moment in every recycling sequence when the metaphysical gives way to the agricultural. When the inverted pivot has inverted one too many times, the deep-lying playmaker is lying a bit too deep, and the goalkeeper, caught in a recursive loop of back-passes, begins to contemplate life outside the six-yard box. At this point, when the press becomes pressier than pressed ham and there are more red shirts around you than at a Manchester United testimonial, there is only one universally acknowledged recourse. The ancient law of the game. The great tactical reset.

And that, dear Zeta, is when you must abandon all pretense of philosophy and remember the first commandment of playground, park, and pub , and premier league football alike:

If in doubt, hoof it out.

Best get a new poll rolling with anti-yes-men names that would never come to the club now because Maresca won’t be here after this season!

1 hour ago, evissy said:

1:40 on until 3:30. He refers the fans and says it us up to the fans to decide. How is that slagging off fans? I think it is pretty clear it is much better to perform if your fans back you. Confidence of these young lads is not very high so environment inside the stadium is part of it. Naturally it has an effect. I don't see how that is blaming the fans. He basically told it like it is. He also said it is natural at 0-2 to not cheer for the lads.

Perhaps if he wants to get the fans on side he should draw up some tactics that don't drain the life and soul out of everyone inside Stamford Bridge.

Sarri was boring at times but f**k me, Maresca takes it to another level.

Also, Poch was on the end direction of that stat by improving us, Enzo, however, has el regreso'd!

58 minutes ago, El regreso said:

Makes sense too as we are projected to finish 4 points worse off vs last season.

4 hours ago, evissy said:

Where did he blame the fans?

He blamed the environment which is very easy to extrapolate he meant the fans.

I’ll get some quotes from his presser…..

“We lost a bit of confidence because we conceded, probably because of the environment”

“The second goal we concede, probably because the environment was there”

The second quote was in relation to Sanchez kicking it long because of the grief coming from the stands. A successful manager will get away with this. Maresca isn’t successful.

He’s done. Certainly from the fans. It’s not going to get better and the club will be acutely aware of this no matter the sound bites they give off

Get him out!

5 minutes ago, 19seventyone said:

He blamed the environment which is very easy to extrapolate he meant the fans.

I’ll get some quotes from his presser…..

“We lost a bit of confidence because we conceded, probably because of the environment”

“The second goal we concede, probably because the environment was there”

The second quote was in relation to Sanchez kicking it long because of the grief coming from the stands. A successful manager will get away with this. Maresca isn’t successful.

He’s done. Certainly from the fans. It’s not going to get better and the club will be acutely aware of this no matter the sound bites they give off

Get him out!

I think he just said what is 100% correct. He's coached enough times at the Bridge to sense if the boos or other negativity affects his players though you don't really have to have half senses to figure it out.

Some fans booed to tell we don't like it and Maresca told what he thinks it did. Not sure there is criticism. I think the fans know what they do by booing.

And again you can boo if you pay the ticket and Maresca can speak as he is trying to protect his players.

The negativity towards him is just so overwhelming here it feels like he is named Adolf and is from Austria.

3 hours ago, Mod said:

Not slagging off, blaming! He insinuated that Sanchez played it long because of the fans (environment), which led to the goal!

When he starts saying things like that to protect himself, and shifting the blame to fans for poor performance, it shows what he is!

A big part of the problem is that Sanchez isn't playing it long to start with!

Doesn’t the problem lie on Sanchez for actually kicking the ball long rather than use his composure and pass to a defender?

Then again Cucurella was out of position because of the system so marescas an absolute clown to even blame the fans.

Maresca is so bad I am even considering going back and wishing for poch back now atleast the trajectory was positive the last 6 games

Owners and SDs have killed the club