Elliott

Yeah, thank fuck for an error page

I'm guessing the board had already promised Wilkins he's taking charge of this game, and perhaps the club start their preparations for it straight after the last game so they didn't want to further jeopardise this preparation by bringing a new manager into it.

We've not made a profit of 11.5% necessarily, just got an increased turnover. But its a step towards self-sustainment.

Oh right, in which case I full heartedly agree with you.

Bollocks. Bad news. Gonna knock his development back a long time, such a shame.

Welcome to Hiddink. Hopefully you can get us performing again!

Well of course if this is a short term option the club will have to look again in the summer... that's the whole point.

Damn right

You might as well face it you're addicted to drugs You might as well face it you're addiiiiiiiicteeed!

He's done it before though, and its only short term. It can be done.

How can we start right now? Any manager we bring in can't sign any players until the summer, and most managers aren't available right now anyway. At least at the end of the season it will be easier to persuade clubs to let their successful young managers leave, which is what we need if we want to make a long term appointment. And anyway, a long term appointment will require a lot of research, and we need a manager NOW, not in a month. Bring in Hiddink as temp manager, whilst in the meantime really do our homework on who would be the best new option. Bring them in early in the summer to allow them plenty of time to do their transfers and then maybe we'll be on our way to building a new successful team.

I'm happy with the idea of Hiddink being temporary manager and I think now it looks like this will definitely happen. He's a manager who's had a lot of success with many different International sides and also has European club experience, including experience of running a club job and an International job at the same time. He would hopefully steer us into the Champions League next season leaving us in a good position to attract a permanent manager in the summer who would be best suited in our interests. It'll be easier to find such a manager in the summer. All in all I think the club have handled this the best way possible after they sacked Scolari, if Hiddink does take up the role that is.

I am laughing my ass off at your sig tri-blue That said, in that situation... we go back to being mid-table, utilise our youth team more and lose some hangers-on. It wouldn't be so bad. Of course I want Chelsea to do well, but I'll always stick around so it doesn't matter THAT much.

The nightmare might be true, oh god

Um... what? We were successful in the Carling Cup under Mourinho because he played a first team. My point was, maybe we should sacrifice that and play youthful sides instead. Um... what? Of course winning two competitions would be a superb season, that's bleedin' obvious! What's your point?

Well they say he said two months ago Scolari was one of the world's top coaches but then they quote him as saying that last fucking June.

Well I agree with that, but that's got nothing to do with the academy and everything to do with the manager's in charge. Maybe we do need to treat the Carling Cup as a reserve competition.

We can't assume just because Wilkins was Scolari's assistant that he's going to automatically be the same as him.

CJ c'mon, I know you're not so naive to think you can just flick a switch and make a youth academy transmit players into our squad. Abramovich has poured money into the academy ever since he came and I think we are seeing the likes of Stoch because of it. More will come good, but you need to have patience and faith. It's not an instant fix.

Why not?

Why would Zola never happen? I think that is quite realistic personally.

Oh no, that's not seriously our top is it? I hate that breastpad thing, it looks ridiculous. Will be keeping well away from that kit that's for sure. As if we don't already look idiotic enough on the pitch...

This might be due to a particular version of IE? It was updated recently on my computer (but I am using Firefox).

You've got cum filled socks on the brain CJ. Did you find some underneath your bed this morning or something?

Flat performance, poor result, rubbish Although I don't know how you guys are getting so angry about it. We've been playing like this for months now, it's hardly a surprising result or performance is it?