Chelsea vs Morecambe (FAC) Sat 11th January 25 15:00 GMT

January 4, 20251 yr

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CFCCAN, erskblue, Sexyfootball and 2 others
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January 4, 20251 yr

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Jorgensen

Disasi

Acheampong

Tosin

Veiga

Casadei

Rak-Sakyi

George

Nkunku

Felix

Guiu

January 4, 20251 yr

Just as well play the first XI if anyone knows what that is these days; just in the hope that we can score some goals and get back to winning ways.

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January 5, 20251 yr

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15 hours ago, CFCCAN said:

Just as well play the first XI if anyone knows what that is these days; just in the hope that we can score some goals and get back to winning ways.

Yeah maybe.

Honestly don't care who he picks for this game. It is an annoyance to me we have a whole week to wait for the FA Cup. We need league game after league game, Saturday to Wednesday, drill this lot and get them out of their funk, and give the managers head a wobble or 2.

January 5, 20251 yr

Good one for Jackson to start. See if he can score a few.

January 5, 20251 yr

30 minutes ago, just said:

Good one for Jackson to start. See if he can score a few.

doubt it...

1 hour ago, axman2526 said:

Yeah maybe.

Honestly don't care who he picks for this game. It is an annoyance to me we have a whole week to wait for the FA Cup. We need league game after league game, Saturday to Wednesday, drill this lot and get them out of their funk, and give the managers head a wobble or 2.

maybe have a game against a team not in the cup next week..although he must have a 2nd XI wandering around Cobham somewhere you would think.

January 5, 20251 yr

Jorgensen
James Disasi Tosin Samuels-Smith
Rak-Sayki Veiga
Madueke Nkunku Felix
Guiu

January 5, 20251 yr

1 hour ago, axman2526 said:

Yeah maybe.

Honestly don't care who he picks for this game. It is an annoyance to me we have a whole week to wait for the FA Cup. We need league game after league game, Saturday to Wednesday, drill this lot and get them out of their funk, and give the managers head a wobble or 2.

Don't they have fatigue apparently

January 5, 20251 yr

20 minutes ago, CFCCAN said:

doubt it...

You doubt Jackson would start, or you doubt Jackson would score?

I think it might be a good opportunity for him to get some confidence back. See if he can terrorise Morcambe's defence like Delap did to us last week.

January 5, 20251 yr

12 minutes ago, just said:

You doubt Jackson would start, or you doubt Jackson would score?

I think it might be a good opportunity for him to get some confidence back. See if he can terrorise Morcambe's defence like Delap did to us last week.

It's Morecambe, not Spurs with 9 men

January 5, 20251 yr

4-2-2-2 experiment for this one. None of the wingers are setting the world alight, so what the hell ... bench them all !

Two up top, with Nkunku supporting Guiu. Felix and Chukwuemeka playing in attacking midfield between the lines. Casadei and Caicedo as the positionally disciplined double pivot in DM. Width from Chilwell and Gusto at full back. A rest for Colwill so Veiga at LCB. Take-your-pick at RCB (I went with Tosin).

I know at least 4 of these have zero chance of being involved, but a man can dream ... 🙂

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January 5, 20251 yr

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It's a great tie for them, as it was for Barrow in the league cup.

One of those magic of the cup draws that those players may never get again and their club might not get again for decades, or longer.

I used to love FA Cup weekends. The giant killings, the road to Wembley and a chance to win the famous old cup.

Those series of finals and semi finals we have blown have stung, but worse is the not having the belief we can deal with a good PL side, so our chances to actually do something, other than wait to be knocked out by said PL side, takes the fun out of it for me.