Duppy Conqueror

Marseille and Moscow..oh dear...all we need now is Partizan ,i thought group of death was supposed to be for the team,not the fans..

Marseille with a Gas mask it is then..

there goes Real..they`re in Milan`s group.

lol at the Mic man saying...Milan of Italy..as if anyone wouldn`t know that.... oh great..we in the last group..so we gotta watch the whole show. Edit: is Arsenal in the last group (group H) we in group F

oh well,i just gotta stay awake for the draw haven`t i..of all days to have it. lol ah,will have to google that one later...i only like crazy golf..well until i get to the bastard windwill... :unsure:

yeah same here....can`t wait to find out where i`m gonna be going in the next couple of months...love going to the bridge but is Chelsea away days that stir the blood most for me.

Chelsea Real Madrid (tho anyone other than Marseille would be sweet..don`t fancy being gassed by their police again when i havent done anything to warrant it..) Ajax or Rangers (either one would be awesome for different reasons..either a battle of britain..or will be so stoned even if Chelsea lose i`d be grinnin` or failing that can always get Filthy McNasty on some scantilly clad exotic girl in a lil red room,to get the defeat out of my system ..) the last pot is a tricky one..if we get Rangers in pot 3..then i`ll go for Twente..if we get Ajax..then i hope for Auxerre or Bursaspor...surely they can`t be as hostile as Galatasary..

ah come on guys..they can`t be footballers AND Mother Theresa.....they are only mere mortals not immortal saints on earth to save the worlds children. Drogba can be a sulky stereotypical french twunt on times...arguably cost us a CL title and shamed a fair few Chelsea fans with his tantrum in the globally watched title winning game last season...but i`m sure there`s not one Chelsea fan who would say we don`t want him because of it.

knew you weren`t English but thought you were Spanish....is there no Costa Rica flag on here? if not i`d support the campaign to get it on here.... used to love Paolo Wanchope when he played for Derby ...would have his best games against Man U..then have a nitemare against us...thats the kind of opponents player i can get behind..

it was his younger brother Brian unfortunately....tho is easy to get them mixed up i know...just Brian was a good player who was a huge disappointment for me when with us,with all that delayed by 9 years homesickness bullshit...where as Micheal was one of the best players on the planet, who proved it on the biggest stages in the `80`s.

wasn`t replying to you in particular Zola..would have quoted you if i was(just so you and others know) i`ve been awake for over 30 hours,so tried to keep it short by using a sweeping generalization to try and cover a few comments made over a few posts in this thread, along with ones in others by various people. basically surrounding the lack of trust in Carlo...if Roman came on a CFC fan site to find out who to buy....Kakuta would never have been discovered by Chelsea,Essien and Drogba wouldn`t have been bought because they weren`t proven in a big league so their prices would have been too much,Aguero would be bought for £40M and on £160,000 a week and balls to the financial future..Ashley Cole wouldn`t have been bought because we didn`t need him as we already had Bridge,Robben wouldn`t have been bought because we had Duff, Ivanovic wouldn`t have been bought because he`s always played in a weak league,Cech wouldn`t have been bought because we already had Cudicini,Anelka would never have been bought because he has a reputation as a sulker etc... if you hire Michelangelo to paint a masterpiece on your ceiling and you have no experience of painting masterpieces on ceilings, you don`t tell him what he does or does not need to do it...you trust him and let him get on with it and although i`m not saying we should just sit back and make no comments of disagreement on anything Carlo does..just a little more faith and realization that he is far more equipped to tell what we do and do not need than anyone of us, from time to time...would make a refreshing change. if i was our manager and felt we needed an extra defender i would go for Serdar Tasci (a CB/RB like Ivanovic) rather than Srna..but it`s Carlo`s call and if Srna is his man,then so be it and i hope he`s successful in buying him...because if he don`t get the tools he believes he needs,it`s his head on the block if it goes tits up, not us. again..that last comment back in the other post wasn`t aimed at anyone in particular..just speaking in general. right off to bed now for me methinks....

in my eyes we don`t "need" a defender...but in my eyes, we also don`t have to win atleast one of the 3 major trophies we play in every season. i have a feeling somehow tho that plenty of the people who don`t want him, would still throw a "wendy" if we don`t win PL,CL etc...without him.

i don`t think playing all our youngsters is the way to go... we want to use the League Cup for them to gain some 1st team experience...playing with the same inexperienced players they play with week in, week out...will not help them get blooded into the 1st team. i`d say play Bruma, 2nd choice keeper (whoever that will be at the time),Kakuta,McEachran,Sturridge and Van Aanholt at the very most with some experienced first teamers like Bran,Zhirkov,Ramires.. (can always have some other youngsters on the bench to bring on if we a few goals ahead) also although it`s not a trophy i care too much about winning..(tho if we got to the final i would hope we do..) if we combine experience with youth,we are less likely to get knocked out in our first game in the tournament, so our youth would get more experience by playing more games in it. how many youngsters playing should depend on who we are playing against..if it`s a premiership team then 3-5 maximum..but if it`s someone like Orient..we could play more..but not an entire team of under 21`s.

i`d welcome us to play Real in the group stages..time to exorcise the ghost of Jose.

i usually read 2 or 3 books at a time. my current ones are: Hells Angels by Hunter S. Thompson The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo Diaries 1969-1979 The Python Years by Micheal Palin

Millwall play nice these days,other teams fans are more naughty.

not only that but he could be one injury away from playing in games like the European Cup final etc...at Stoke he will not.

even at 18 i`d say Bruma is better...we don`t need to supply 8 English players for that homegrown rule when we got under 21`s like that. i used to like Steven Taylor when he was a 21 year old as thought he was good for his age but he hasn`t grown into a better player like he should have...plus even tho he`s English..he`s a Geordie,so is not like he can speak English..

Alex is 28..JT is 29...(Branislav is 26 btw) they aren`t gonna be " very old" " "within 3 years"...pace has never been what they rely upon to get the job done,so they will more than likely be the same players they are now in 3 years. if we need an injection of pace at CB we have Bruma is no slug..neither is Branislav...Luiz ain`t coming for the price they are demanding for him,no way!

one other positive not yet mentioned is Ross Barclay did a wreckless "tackle" on Chalobah that could have ended in a serious injury,but the kid sprung straight back up the way Running Back`s in American Football do when they`ve been hit hard,as if to make a point that despite their opponent trying to hurt them,they failed.

puts a lot of pressure on the shoulders of JB with both Hutch and Mancienne not available to us now...JB is not only our 4th option CB but one of only 4 CB`s who has played 1st team football. does seem odd that he would play in the reserves on Tuesday night then be on his way to Wolves now..maybe his not so great game infront of Carlo when Rohan Ince outperformed him was the last straw for them and tho a lot more experienced than Ince..with Carlo having seen quite a bit of him in the last month or so he has jumped ahead of him in the pecking order. i do think that as time has passed by, Mancienne has become less and less promising as a CB...i think he could still become a very good player,but not at CB....he seems to always make atleast one "schoolboy error" per game and in DM or at FB others can bail him out but not at CB! he`s what i would call a "cultured" CB in that he`s usually got good touch on the ball,can pass it about..has good pace etc..but he doesn`t seem to do the bread and butter kind of stuff..if he`s the last man with the ball at his feet,surrounded by 3 players..he would probably try and dribble his way out of trouble rather than putting the ball in Row Z, so that the rest of the defense can regroup.

the stats i`ve found on him state that since moving into European football with Monaco,he has played 67 Games and scored 14 goals. hardly a goal machine but hardly an out and out striker either. Story is from The Sun tho...so may be absolutely no truth in it atall..

*Source: The Independent* Chelsea defender Michael Mancienne has agreed another season-long loan with Wolverhampton Wanderers after the Premier League champions refused to budge on a £5m asking price for the defender. The decision to reject Wolves' final offer of £3m is thought to have gone right to the top to Roman Abramovich himself with Chelsea making it clear to Wolves that it would be £5m or no deal. Mancienne, 22, who has made six appearances for the first team, has already had two temporary loan spells at Wolves over the previous two seasons. Mancienne would have preferred a permanent transfer as he now feels that he has no future at the club to which he has been attached since the age of eight. His £25,000-a-week wages make him the highest earner among the academy generation at Chelsea and have been a discouraging factor to clubs, including Newcastle, who have made enquiries. The indications from Carlo Ancelotti is that in terms of preferment Jeffrey Bruma, 18, who made his senior Netherlands debut this month, is ahead of Mancienne to take Ricardo Carvalho's place in the squad. A regular England under-21 player who was even called up to a senior squad by Fabio Capello in November 2008, Mancienne has found it frustrating trying to make headway with the club. He made his senior debut in the FA Cup in February last year but now finds himself passed over as another generation of academy-produced players try to break into Ancelotti's first team squad. Mancienne is the latest player to leave Chelsea who would have been eligible to qualify as one of the club's home-grown players under the new Premier League squad quotas. Joe Cole has joined Liverpool and Sam Hutchinson has been forced to retire. Mancienne, who has two years remaining on his Chelsea contract, made 33 appearances for Wolves last year. As Chelsea seek to balance their squad in anticipation of the 25-man submission to the Premier League next week, they have also farmed out the Serbians Nemanja Matic, 22, and Slobodan Rajkovic, 21, on loan at Vitesse Arnhem in the Netherlands.

interesting development...maybe in some way him not wanting to be cup tied in the League Cup points to us being his desired destination..due to the fact that barring injuries is only the League Cup and some F.A Cup games (depending on the strength of the opposition) that he would play in.... where as if it was to a team where he would more likely to be a regular starter,missing some LC games would be less of an issue to him. could be that none of that is the actual case tho...just thinking outside of the box really..but should be an interesting few days before the window shuts anyway....i can`t say i`ve seen much of the lad in actual games,but it seems like many people in football rate him highly so there must be something about him.

wonder who we will be drawn against..i`m hoping Ajax,Rangers & anywhere i havent been to yet..which would have to be somewhere pretty obscure..like a Latvian team or something.. tho realise that there would probably have to be an higher seeded team with us than those.