Chelsea Banter Archive March 06 2012

06 Mar 2012 21:56:33
Finally something to cheer on. Good game. When you see Obi Mikel RUNNING! That must mean something. You get used to the low pace of the team during the season, but one thing for sure out of today is - we had the tempo and the desire.

We were solid and St.Andrews is not an easy place to play. Don't want to single out anyone, but i think we played motivated and with purpose.

Congrats to all! KTBFFH

JG

06 Mar 2012 21:52:07
Does anyone know who trains in nr 91?
Eds?

06 Mar 2012 21:17:12
I Can not understand how bad FT is, i mean i know he won a penalty but touch pace passing awareness... It's all gone...

Your talking absolute rubbish. If you look in the first half how many one touch passes he made to create chances it's unreal, he just needs players to do that for him. All the other attributes come with playing time and proper match fitness.

FT9

Please get off of his back. He had a chance, missed badly, happens to all. Played well, played with energy and devotion.

He is unlucky, with both confidence and last touch. That is true, but please... He is our player, we are fighting for this season to saved, get around the team. They need our unconditional support. Wait until the summer and send your wishlists to the board.

JG

Running around and trying hard should be a given when being a pro footballer.
The bloke needs to be told to play his game in the box not drift out left and right all the time.
His first touch is average at best.
Grant holt , Steven fletcher , Danny graham , all average strikers that have more goals , show better quality touches and run around more than Torres.
For 50 million I want more than running around , I want quality and goals.
Cfcmatt.

I do think that all of us, including the club, management and Torres himself agree with you.

JG

06 Mar 2012 20:47:22
We always hear ex-pro's saying "you never lose it" and I use to think this was true.
But gentlemen I give you...... Fernando Torres. The bloke has lost it.
Please prove me wrong Fernando.
But I'm not holding my breath.
Cfcmatt.

06 Mar 2012 20:39:00
Half time. Have been impressed with Kalou so far. Shown good attitude. Surprisingly Mikel and Mereiles have been decent enough too. Defence solid as yet. Bertrandhaving a solid game too. Overall a good performance but we need a goal, extra time would do us no favours against Stoke or Napoli.

Badger {Ed002's Note - Kalou? I am guessing you have an old video tape stuck in the machine and playing.}

I had also thought kalou has been playing well and his pace has added a new dimension to Chelsea's game. He is doing a better job than Malouda on the wing and it also frees up Mata for a freer role in midfield so overall it is a positive.

Rowan

Badger you can't be serious? Kalouless has been as shocking as ever, Mikel has just been doing his usual- nothing more nothing less and Meireles has only completed about 2 passes to a player wearing the same shirt as him!

RC

Ed would agree re Kalouless and its the same old problem the 2 in the centre of the park are giving us nothing, side way passes or backwards, surely there are better players in the club

2 better 2 play in the centre piazon and mceachran, well maybe in 2 years

Kalou is dreadful, seriously come on.

"Kalouless" - that is excellent RC - I love it. Rolls off the tongue.

LIVERPRES

Kalou is exactly what we need at the moment, he may lack quality but you have to say he is pretty unpredictable.

Kalou we have to forget this type of name if we have to fight for the top fligt...he looks shocking...even in the first he almost make a mess of the ball it was lucky mata had the ball and put it in the goal...to me Torres has played very good he has won penalty, he cross the ball to Sturidge which he should have the goal...but all over it has been a very good match..chelsea for life.

06 Mar 2012 18:43:32
I have posted this awhile back, but now that our manager is gone (and i just felt he is too stubborn to change anything on the pitch, or tweak his ideas) , I hope a change to formation will be implemented.

Look, we only have one wi ger in Malouda and you can't say he is in form. Most of us hate the look of seeing him near the pitch, let alone on it. Basicly if we employ this 4-3-3, we play at least two players out of position and it hardly does us any good. We don't play to their strenghts and it doesn't help us at all.

I hope we swich to 4-4-2 diamond. Most of the players played that under Ancelotti for some games in the last couple of seasons, some of it was played under Mourinho as well, so it ain't that unfamiliar.

I would wish the manager tried this if not this game, then at leas later on in the season, given time.
My team would be:
Cech
Iva-Luiz-Cahill-Cole
Essien
Ramires-Lampard
Mata
Sturridge-Drogba/Torres

JG

Fair point mate, but its not a simple as just the manager changing the formation. Every chelsea team(first team, reserves, and all of the youth teams) play 4-3-3.

06 Mar 2012 17:32:10
Really looking forward to game this evening. Tonight we will find out if the players wanna play for Chelsea or
Just didn't wanna play under avb. A big rally til end season. Get 4th and maybe fa cup and bring in someone who has the bottle to stand up to players but keep few on board , I'd love the Germany manager or hiddink but his tied to new job now. Don't want rafa, or sven. Wud love Jose back but can't see it, good luck cfc !

06 Mar 2012 16:29:03
whilst writing this I know for a fact that I will get criticised by the majority but here goes it anyway. I check this website 3/4 times a day but I am so appalled and to be honest, a bit fed up with the way the club is run that I have chosen to boycott watching anymore games this season. Therefore I will not be able to contribute much and so, well done ed's (especially ed002) and I will see you guys again come june 1st - hopefully we'll be making progress in the right direction.

Love Chelsea Hate the Board

Vincent {Ed002's Note - Skipping the Champions League final Vincent?}

Haha as shocked/ecstatic as I would be if that happened, yes. I am a man of my word (and a stubborn b*****d as well). But good luck ed, some of the crap you put up with is at times saintly and I look forward to the summer

Vincent

06 Mar 2012 16:01:41
"The Madness of The Roman Emperor"

Chelsea fans won't want to hear it and yet in many ways they are as culpable as the Roman Emperor: when the high-profile players needed someone to stand up to them, heads went down and people scurried for the bunkers. The madness that now swirls around the club is as a result of this and poses a serious issue for the club's credibility more than any other thing.

Stephen Boyd and Sophia Loren watched as Christopher Plummer set the real Roman Empire (movies of course) on its way to a fiery demise in 1965. Nearly a half century later the Roman Emperor wearing blue and speaking to no-one presides over an empire that has crumbled as quickly as Bayern Munich's recent revival. Forget the Champions' League and fourth in the PL - the real damage is to your status as a progressive club. I'm pleased there is paper talk of Mourinho asking for £1million a month to come back. It's all tosh as it will prove in the next few weeks, but the reality is that nobody in their right football mind would want this 'basket case' of a job, unless it was for more of the Roman Emperor's dubious money.

Howard Hughes chucked millions of dollars at projects in the 30s and 40s and made himself a legend of the last century. Abramovich will make himself a laughing stock of the football world as he simply throws millions away on short-term thinking. If he asked AVB to come in and clear out the old guard, what did he expect when he tried to do it? If he thought it was right to hire and instruct him to do that, then why give up when the divas bleated loudly? Lampard, Drogba and a few others have little more than a season or two left at the highest level. It is hard to move on such players, but isn't this what the club needs and RA wanted? Isn't that why he brought AVB in? So why did he abandon this 'project' and cabe in to these divas? More short-term thinking and no long term plan.

Lampard and co. have past history in bleating: FL walked out of an England set-up when he was on the bench and his ego is well known in the game. Forget people like Ray Wilkins who today said the players were a delight to work with. He is hardly likely to bite any hand these days such is his reputation for fence sitting.

The Roman Emperor has shamed the management game with his shoddy hiring and then firing of AVB. I'm not sure he was ever up to the job, so what does that say of the man who thought he was and paid millions to hire him? This is the same man who has told the players to buck up their ideas and hinted that he will be moving some of them on this summer. But isn't that what he hired AVB to do? Madness!

Benitez has said he wants a club to manage that will win things (a bit like Curbishley who has been out of work for years) and odd that these people ONLY want to manage a winning side. Heaven forbid they should have to work to PRODUCE such a side in the first place! But in many ways Benitez is lucky he has seen the light that is dimming rapidly at Chelsea.

Abramovich has damaged the Chelsea name and made the club look inept. It has also raised the issue of rich men with little knowledge of the game simply throwing millions away on vanity projects. If Chelsea FC wants to be respected in Europe and win the 'big prize' then it needs to do it by more than pouring the wealth of a plundered old Russia into it.

At this time the club stand accused of an embarrassing debacle of hiring and firing, a grovelling submission to a bunch of primadonnas who may be currently be loved by fans but who will soo fade and drive off in their Bentleys - and more importantly, Chelsea stand accused of being a place no decent manager will want to be involved with or near. No amount of money will change that.

SP

The average tenure (in seasons) of mangers at various European clubs since Roman bought Chelsea in 2003. Chelsea, 1.1, Real Madrid, 0.8, Inter Milan, 1.1, Bayern Munich, 1.3, Tottenham 1.6. Manchester City, 1.6. It has happened all over Europe for the last decade. QPR had five managers in one season!! Some of your points about how the club is run are fair and understandable, and I think every Chelsea fan wants stability. I myself am not comfortable with how the club is run and am definitely not happy with the fact football decisions ultimately seem to be made by people with questionable knowledge of the game but the proverbial managerial revolving door is something that happens throughout the sport at the highest level.

Blue25 {Ed002's Note - I rather suspect fans of most clubs are much more interested in success on the field rather than stability off it.}

Portsmouth ??
Rangers ??

06 Mar 2012 15:39:51
A lot of you gentlemen over here must be having too much spare time to read all the rubbish about Chelsea in the press and then come alarming over here.

Joahim Low this, Cristiano Ronaldo that, payouts, costs of hiring and sacking, all that.

If you genuinely believe what you read, stick with that and go order Chelsea shirt with number 7 ard Ronaldo print. Good riddance.

It has been explained over here who are our prime targets. These can only be discussed, but nothing will come official till the end of the season.

Most of us with Mourinho's return. Lets keep with that. If it turn out to be another top manager, lets stick with him and in the meantime, stop moaning and support the team.

Good luck to our lads on the pitch tonight. Stick with Chelsea!

JG

06 Mar 2012 13:55:40
Is it coincidence that the Former Chelsea Boss is looking at houses in the area and then the current Boss gets the sack? Unless Mourinho is up for the Englandmanager, I think the deal is already done. Your thoughts Ed. {Ed002's Note - Don't read anything in to it.}

06 Mar 2012 13:16:00
i have some very odd feeling that rafa is giong to be our manager....

06 Mar 2012 08:29:59
Sorry for the last post I was interrupted midway .What i wanted to say was as we are lacking balance in the wings we are less effective in attack.So if we sign one or two proper wingers in the next transfer window along with a midfielder we will be fine.
roan

06 Mar 2012 08:00:08
Bring the Special one back and let him bring ronaldo with him as he as also he would like to return to England

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