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We should play with a bit of freedom today i hope, although the league isn't completely over, we aint gonna win anything this season so i wish we'd just play with freedom like the WBA game.

To be honest tho, at the current state, we don't need many players. 2 Wingers has to be main priority. If we had 2 wingers like Bale and Young, we'd be in a brilliant position now. Our defence is great, our strikers are great and our midfield is strong now that Ramires has found his feet and Benayoun plays like a 25 year old. He never shows slowness or fatigue. We really are not that far away at all, but Carlo and Roman need to recognise the areas we need to strengthen and they are out wide. Malouda is pretty much a winger but more-so a left midfielder and Kalou and Anelka are both strikers so clearly playing them on the wings are gonna have an adverse effect and prove to be pointless. Every position needs a player who's natural in that position and that's why it's not worked too well too often.

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He shouldn't of played Drogs at all in that period but its that thing again with the profile of the player and being worried about us losing if Drogs doesn't play and being blamed. It's easy just to pick the best players and make excuses but a real world class manager woulda had the bollocks to make changes. It's what they get paid for. That's my main criticism of Carlo, making changes to his team. We blew the title in that period and Drogs was made a bit of a scapegoat.

If we win 7-0, i wouldn't expect to see his name on the scoresheet. Kalou has more chance (Genuinely)

I love the shirt with just the lion but i hate those 2 stars. I think that a full badge is better tho but it looks wicked. Maybe in the future teams will do that. Liverpools bird, utd's devil, yids already do it with their cockerel or w/e it is, Arse with a cannon. I like the idea.

Played em midweek last season i remember and put one of our best performances of the season in in a 3-0 victory. Birmingham still arent 100% safe so it will be a harder game tomorrow because of this but i expect us to get the job done. Looking forward to it.

Well, point 2, 3 and 4 aint happened yet so we'll see. I'm positive because i know i support a brilliant team but a new playmaker, Torres finding his form and 2 new wingers still are being waited on. We currently have a few players that really should go now and the talent has to come through. When we get rid of these players and i see some signings and our youth given a chance, i'll be even more positive for sure. I'm already looking forward to pre season lol.

At least us getting knocked out means that we have no chance getting to face Barca at Wembley. I wont say we woulda had no chance but it could really have been embarrassing on a nice big wembley pitch. We'll save that distinct honour to Man Utd. If they get done 4-0, they'll wish we knocked them out. And also, getting knocked out by Schalke would've hurt more and been embarrassing too. Least we went out in a fairly routine dignified manner. Lets just save the UCL until Barca are a bit crapper If Man Utd beat Barca at Wembley then good luck to em. Still... Real could knock Barca out. Man Utd vs Real would be fascinating too.

Although i hate them with a passion, i really do like The Emirates and i'd love to see Chelsea in a stadium like that week in, week out. Nice big pitch too for our system which quite frankly SB doesn't allow us to play against defensive teams because of the lack of space. I do love SB tho but it's time for us to move into a modern super stadium soon. I also very much like Celtic Park and Dortmunds because they are big with still great atmosphere

Barcelona are the greatest team i've ever seen and they knocked Arsenal out 2 years in a row so them. No matter what they did to us in 2009, it wasn't their fault, it was the ref and i am just gonna admire the way they play. Anyone but Man Utd tho!

A forum is nothing without a difference of opinion.

Maybe the ones who don't come back should be cleared unless of course they are members we know. We don't really need ppl who have made 3 posts in 2 years lol. Would take ages to clean it up tho.

Great milestone, the best Chelsea forum around no doubt and it's getting bigger and better by the year. Credit to the admins as they are the reasons for this place to be here and their fantastic knowledge and desire year in, year out.

Good post, definitely a forum that i'm so glad i found, it is a great place and you're a very good new member here. Almost feel like i know most the members personally, all good.

If you change managers every 1-2 years, you don't deserve to win fuck all. The most important thing is faith and i believe in stability. We're not too far off, hell we're only 2 points off 2nd which is hardly a disaster. Carlo has made mistakes, i wanna see him fix the mistakes because if we don't let him try n sort his problems out, he can't be judged properly. If he gets sacked i wont cry, but i also wont cry if we keep him.

Most of last season we were pretty average, especialy in the middle part but so were Arsenal and Man Utd. We had a flurry at the beginning of last season and the end of last season (first 6 we won and last 9 we won 7 so 15 of the 38 league games) and that's what won us the league. I never said i wanted Carlo to stay but it would be a bit shit sacking him when we won the double the previous season. I want to see some stability though and i wanna see what he's made of in adversity and after a disappointing season. This season, we started great again, won 8 out of the first 10 league games but after that, Ray was sacked and we collapsed immediately Keep him: - Double winners 09/10 - Stability - Let him right his own wrongs, if the same happens next season, let him go - See if he's capable of sorting things out Ditch him: - Isn't making match changing decisions - Playing out of form players - Scared to change things - Playing players out of position - Seems a bit clueless

Was thinking of picking your top 3 in each category instead of just the best one, just to maybe see some new names in some lists and give the nearly people a bit of credit. I think everyone kind of knows who will win most of the awards (righly so by the way because BL and Steve have been a real credit to the place and the club).

I watch what i can really but mainly Premiership, Championship and La Liga. In the Championship, every match is big because its so tight every season. I like the spanish because of the quality. Always watch UCL too of course and International tournaments and the domestic cups. Will do my best tho to watch the German stuff tomorrow tho because Leverkusen really are chasing Dortmund but i hope Bayern Munich beat Bayerkusen because i want Dortmund to win the league. Always followed dortmund since i got their home shirt about 15 years ago from my uncle who works for Nike after they knocked man utd out of the UCL 12 points has become 5 tho, very Newcastle - Man Utd like from '96 interesting. I watch all important games too

These Carlo threads are quite annoying because we all know who he is and what he won with us last season. Last season, Man Utd were in a transition, selling Ronaldo and Tevez, 2 of their 3 best players, we ought to have won the league really and even then we lost 6 games and won it by just a point. I was so happy at the end of the season tho, i loved Carlo because he seemed to have got the best out of his players in the last 7-8 games and we completely battered teams and won the double and i was buzzing for the next season because i thought Carlo had it sorted. Stoke 7-0 Villa 7-1 Sunderland 7-2 Portsmouth 5-0 Wigan 8-0 Blackburn 5-0 By the end of last season, we were confident and we were playing the best football i had ever seen from a chelsea team. 103 league goals, free flowing, expansive. Everyone was on top of their game. Start of the 2010-11 season: WBA 6-0 Wigan 6-0 Blackpool 4-0 On October 30th, we beat Blackburn 2-1 to be 5 points clear in the premiership and have our best start to a season in 4 years or so, we then beat Spartak Moscow 4-1 and all was rosy. Played 10, won 8, drew 1, lost 1. Can't ask for much more, started as we left off the season before. Then Ray Wilkins was sacked and the season died, dropped points after dropped points, everyone out of form, the goals dried up, the body language was shit and we just couldn't buy a win. Surely the MANAGER should get the players motivated and not let this happen. bad moment, unlucky whatever, the fact was that we were getting further behind the leaders week by week and out of the race completely. What Ray Wilkins gave the team obviously was a lot better than what Ancellotti gave the team because stats don't lie and you don't lose confidence and form that badly just like that. We weren't just hitting a minor blip, this was a complete collapse from november 7th and january 15th. Something was obviously wrong behind the scenes. Now who to blame? Roman got rid of Jose when things were perfect. He got rid of Ranieri when things were fucking great, the best for a long time, maybe ever at the time. He got rid of Ray Wilkins after he had worked with Carlo to win us the double and were in amazing form in the current period, last season ended breathtakingly. Now Carlo needs to prove that he can actually bounce back from this shit season and turn it around. He needs to bring in a number 2 who will work with the players and inspire them, like a Maldini or a Desailly. Someone who will give a buzz around the place. Atm Carlo is working alone and it just isn't working. All the best teams have a great manager and a great number 2, we have a great manager but then there's a void imo. ALSO... Carlo needs to be braver with his selections and stop playing players out of position (Anelka) and players out of form (Lampard, Malouda, Anelka) and stop making the same pointless changes that never change the game. With 2 NATURAL WINGERS like Young and Bale, we'd be amazing but we don't have natural wingers and we play wingers, i don't get it. We got knocked out of the 2 Champions League campaigns against 2 teams that had settled teams and everyone knew their role 110%. They were organised and they had belief. Against Inter and especially Man Utd, we showed no belief we could actually get through and not everyone knew their jobs. Also we didn't and still don't know our best XI or our best formation. Carlo... 2 proper wingers please, a proper number 2 and a settled formation and we'll be laughing.

That Arsenal shirt looks awful with that HUGE badge. Even the shirt aint all that nice tbh, looks like something from the blue square premier.

If Mourinho comes back, it wont be til maybe 2 or 3 years time. I'd like Carlo to actually stay and see what he's made of. How's he gonna make Chelsea better and is he gonna show some bollocks? Got lots of Portuguese speaking players tho for a Portuguese manager.

lol that was funny, hope he's proved right tho

I've only been to 1 match this season and that was the FA Cup 4th Round replay, i'm not gonna go to anymore league games 100%. I'll go to the fa cup maybe and the UCL group stage games, that's it. EDIT: Just seen UCL group stage games are £40. No way i'll be renewing my membership.

I have a feeling its only a matter of time until we go pink. I kinda like the 3rd bordeaux shirt tho, the 2nd is messed up but still looks ok because it's different. The liverpool away shirt is class, not what u can say about the team tho. Bordeaux have always had the V design, all their home kits look the same tbh.