1 hour ago, General said:

Maresca and the other 🤡 on the pitch have lost todays fixture for us and now we are depleted vs United and Forest the perfect end of season gift for the top 4 rivals. Not confident for top 5 now and Betis are a different outfit to the conference teams in the qtr and semis. Could end up with the same outcome as last season - as a fan I’m of course disappointed at todays result and that potential outcome of 6th again. As a hater of Clearfake and Maresca serves them right if we do place 6th and lose the final.

We aren't depleted because the donkey got sent off.. We are 60% better off..

2 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Fabulous jinx card played there Andy !

How important our loss today is showing.

3points ahead of Villa with a much better goal difference and 4 ahead of Forest. A win vs united would have meant it was all done.

Now? Have to win both with no striker and the return of Woe Palmer again today

2 hours ago, Caps_Lock_King said:

People forgetting City failed to win at Southampton yesterday (how many people would have said that), we all thought we would struggle today if you are honest, so dont be surprised if Forest blow up today

WELL?

Think Forest have blown it now. Villa will get 5th imo

Haha Eddie Howe came out after the game and said we made it hard for them in the second half, and gave us congratulations for doing so! way to stick the knife it!

I think that we can beat Utd and Forest. Can it be said the same for Villa and the Geordies? Villa have Spurs at home and Utd away (manure will want to end with a win at their turf) and the barcodes have Arsenal at the Emirates and Everton on good formation at home. I can see them getting 3 or 4 points each, but I think that we can get the 6 points.

I think we’ll look back on that Jackson sending off as a textbook case of how to blow up your career at a football club. How does he come back from that? Really sad for the lad but what’s done is done.

Ultimately we just need to win our games rather than worry about anyone else's.

5 minutes ago, Malcolm9 said:

Ultimately we just need to win our games rather than worry about anyone else's.

Might prove a blessing in disguise that Jackson isn’t around and we can play George or Neto upfront instead. Jackson’s been pretty useless in the Premier League for months anyhow.

26 minutes ago, RMH said:

I think that we can beat Utd and Forest. Can it be said the same for Villa and the Geordies? Villa have Spurs at home and Utd away (manure will want to end with a win at their turf) and the barcodes have Arsenal at the Emirates and Everton on good formation at home. I can see them getting 3 or 4 points each, but I think that we can get the 6 points.

Us, Forest, Villa are all capable of winning our final 2 games, though of course us and Forest both cannot.

What I am expecting to happen:

Chelsea - man united - score draw.

Villa - Spurs- Villa win.

West Ham - Forest - west ham win

Forest - Chelsea - score draw

Man United - Villa - score draw

Villa 5th, us 6th and Forest 7th.

21 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Us, Forest, Villa are all capable of winning our final 2 games, though of course us and Forest both cannot.

What I am expecting to happen:

Chelsea - man united - score draw.

Villa - Spurs- Villa win.

West Ham - Forest - west ham win

Forest - Chelsea - score draw

Man United - Villa - score draw

Villa 5th, us 6th and Forest 7th.

We fail to beat United and any chance of Champs league is over in my opinion. Honestly given United's woeful league form, if we don't beat them then we probably don't deserve Champs League.

11 minutes ago, forbzy said:

We fail to beat United and any chance of Champs league is over in my opinion. Honestly given United's woeful league form, if we don't beat them then we probably don't deserve Champs League.

My thoughts exactly.

Fail to win Friday then I’m checked out. Deserve f**k all.

11 minutes ago, forbzy said:

We fail to beat United and any chance of Champs league is over in my opinion. Honestly given United's woeful league form, if we don't beat them then we probably don't deserve Champs League.

Plus it’s the game before Europa league final.

It genuinely would be embarassing if we don’t get all 3 points. Man Utd sitting in 16th, playing their 2nd string team to save players for the final… We have no excuses.

5 hours ago, Chippy said:

I picked a bad time to start looking in on the forum, seems our decision not to buy an experienced striker has cost us dearly, Jackson has potential but is back up quality for a team challenging for CL places and might have learned from a proper striker.

Not sure if the blame lies with the manager, scouting staff of the owners.

you would think Jackson would have known the importance here and at least not done anything stupid.

Excellent to see you posting @Chippy . Please stick around - you will make this place a little less nasty.

I'll try mate, good to see you still on here.

Let's make the shed end great again😃

Much was being said about how Lavia is "press resistant and he "just does not give the ball away".

Was asking for trouble.

48 minutes ago, forbzy said:

We fail to beat United and any chance of Champs league is over in my opinion. Honestly given United's woeful league form, if we don't beat them then we probably don't deserve Champs League.

Yea but they will be prime class of 92 just for us maybe even rebuy rashford on a 1 game contract to score a wordlie into us then go back to being useless

10 minutes ago, SFL82 said:

Yea but they will be prime class of 92 just for us maybe even rebuy rashford on a 1 game contract to score a wordlie into us then go back to being useless

No matter how bad they are United ALWAYS show up against us.

Didn't get to watch the game today but by all accounts we were pretty poor again. This leaves me wondering why so many Chelsea fans want CL football next season. I love to see us being successful but ending up in a CL group with the likes of Bayern, Barca, Real PSG etc will just be humiliating. We're too dysfunctional atm. I'm sure many of our players are talented but they just don't seem to fit together. Europa League would be more our standard I think.

35 minutes ago, BewareoftheDrog said:

Didn't get to watch the game today but by all accounts we were pretty poor again. This leaves me wondering why so many Chelsea fans want CL football next season. I love to see us being successful but ending up in a CL group with the likes of Bayern, Barca, Real PSG etc will just be humiliating. We're too dysfunctional atm. I'm sure many of our players are talented but they just don't seem to fit together. Europa League would be more our standard I think.

It’s one big group so not to worry. We also need the money that goes along with CL football.

Highlight of the day was Neto giving Palmer a lot of stick at half time.

I get the feeling most of the rest of the squad indulge Palmer. On form he’s our best player but he needs a reality check. 18 months of great form doesn’t give him the right to not try as hard as the rest of the team.

He was proper sh*te today

I've got a feeling the owners are looking to sell up, note no progress on the stadium.

If so don't expect any big signings, Jacko might go as I think the owners will be less than impressed with a sending off in an important match,

We have Tyrique George who is a winger and has been scoring, wasn't Thierry Henry originally a winger and how about Ronaldo.

Of course unfair to make that comparison so early yet no reason why he can't run the lanes as though he is a No.9 or play on the shoulder of the defenders.

2 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Us, Forest, Villa are all capable of winning our final 2 games, though of course us and Forest both cannot.

What I am expecting to happen:

Chelsea - man united - score draw.

Villa - Spurs- Villa win.

West Ham - Forest - west ham win

Forest - Chelsea - score draw

Man United - Villa - score draw

Villa 5th, us 6th and Forest 7th.

Newcastle will probably drop points at the emirates.

And i don’t think that we deserve champions league or are ready for it.

21 minutes ago, RMH said:

Newcastle will probably drop points at the emirates.

They are 3 ahead with a plus 4 goal difference on us.

I would have looked at them and 3rd had we won but now I think that is done.

32 minutes ago, RMH said:

And i don’t think that we deserve champions league or are ready for it.

Agreed. I don't agree with the pl getting an extra spot for 5th during the season. Qualification should be determined before a game is played in the season, not during it.

Also don't agree with the Europa and conference league winner getting a spot in the competition above. Should be to come back and defend their trophy, unless they qualify through their league for better.