Rhino's Skin

urm...I said it was a bad season so far. Nothing has changed...its bad

stop talking rubbish...i was refering to transfers...no one could have predicted our business in July

rubbish....unless you could look into the future reference transfer dealings

well everyone seems to be wanting to dismiss Mourinho because of 1 'so far' bad season.......so why not

ok...misunderstanding of English as in "losing supporters "Agree with you that he is losing the support of fans in general

speculation....but where are these alleged supporters going? Because if they are jumping ship because of these incidents then they are not Chelsea

so the referee "invites" Mourinho into his dressing room during the half time interval after Mourinho had a few choice words with him in the tunnel. Wonder what the choice words were about....surely not the ball over the line as that was proven....so it was either the debatable offside, the 2 yellows on Matic ( hard to argue against) or that one of his staff got a red. I wonder what was discussed between the officials in the interim period. Did they get advice from the rule book or phone the FA on how to deal with him etc etc etc? Either way, I find it amusing that the ref had to go into his room and then summon Jose to it......why not just give him a red in the tunnel

cant say say I am over the moon, but it doesnt bother me that much either...too long in the tooth for all that. There is more to my life than clinging on to hope that my football team does well. Will a manager change help....I doubt it as a lot of this is down to individuals not carrying out what they are meant to do.. The manager has gone back to basics and kept it simple and in general we played ok today. Not great but a lot of pundits thought our 2nd half performance deserved better. Jose doesnt go out of his way to be bigger than the team....its the media fascination with him that hang onto his every word and action and turn it around to suit. prime example those 2 stupid kids badgering him privately this week....big media news. having said all that he needs his staff to be more in control and be the good cops if he is the bad one.....

its the way the game is nowadays. Years back it was unlucky if you got a red and other professionals were sorry for you...nowadays they celebrate a player getting sent off

this is so much fun.

if you as one of the guvnors on here are happy for crass names to be on then so am I ;-)

just a girls name which opposition refer to Mourinho as......similar to Brendan Rogers being called Brenda.

is you on de crack or de pop dude?need a drink...give me a pint of what he is on

kin ell....this muppet will be calling the club Cheelskiii and referring to the rest of us as chavs or plastics next.It aint big, clever or even remotely amusing using opposition terminology against our own no matter how much you might dislike him

wonder if Wolfsburg supporters are going nuts about him leaving

so he peaked when we play at 70%. So thats why he struggled when it went up to 100% ;-)

wish Mourinho had given those rude, impolite, attention seeking lads a right telling off instead. and I am not talking about any players here ;-)

although you sound like you have good intentions, unfortunately even when we have positive results and performance some posters will still be negative. Nature of the beast

well here in UK..its not regarded as a 'massive' thing. Officially ( The FA ) its a friendly and most supporters regard it as that.....had we been playing Villa instead of Arsenal, it wouldnt have made a difference.

well you do not know what you are talking about because a lot of regular match goers dont bother with it and it struggles to sell out even when it goes to general sale.Managers like to build it up but we all know its played at about 70% The FA deem it as a friendly match as you are allowed up to 6 subs during the match...we made 4. Charity shield always has been a friendly, always will be unless you are like Arsenal and one or two other clubs who love winning irrelevant pre season tournys. Imagine if we had won the USA thing ...does that count as well?

mourinho has stated many times that he thought KdB was a very talented kid and wanted to keep him, however he as always stated that when a player wants to go because he is unhappy at the way things are going..he will always let them. Lukaku could have stayed and learnt off Drogba and would have had loads of chances that season due to injuries and suspension.....but yet another player who wanted a guaranteed starting spot. The only player I have seen Mourinho try to keep is Cech

since when?....we even to struggle to sell out allocation for it because many ST holders cant be bothered. Shows how much regular support think of it as a trophy

totally irrellevant as had KdB grown a pair and stayed (Mourinho didnt want him to go) he would have more likely ended up proving himself good enough to force his way into a more permanent slot. Mourinho likes to challenge players .....KdB didnt like being challenged and thought he was good enough there and then but actually he still needed time to develop...which is why Wolfsburg was a good move in hindsight

who gives a toss about friendlies

KdB didnt get motm in any of the games he played with us.He was ok v Hull but others put in better performances and he progressively got worse. Rumours about his training ethics and his dad/ agent knocking on Mourinhos door all the time were rife. As a young man he needed to grow up and learn more which he wasnt prepared to do at Chelsea....at Wolfsburg he became the big fish in a little pond which suited him whereas at Chelsea he could have grown into a big fish but there were other fish just as big to fight off. Chelsea got an excellent price plus sell on fee for someone who didnt have the balls to fight. At the time that was the correct decision for the club and for him which Mourinho sanctioned.