Elliott

This watching by stream is hard work. Watched three different streams as they all died before going back to atdhe We're creating chances but as usual can't stick them away. Same old. Quaresma looks alright but nothing special which is pretty much what I expected. Think we'll win this though.

The kit looks HORRIBLE put on Lampard. Awful. I sincerely hope that design is not what we go with.

Maybe it was a cookie issue.

Welcome to Talk Chelsea! Always good to link up with other Chelsea sites.

Welcome to TalkChelsea!

I'm sure they've been doing that for a while, but the fact is the group that owns Tevez want a lot of fucking money.

My first game was in 1994, Chelsea vs Luton Town FA Cup Semi-Final. At least that's what I'm told, I remember absolutely nothing about it. I rememberthe Final though, remember my dad being very pissed off and all I could see was a scoreboard saying Manchester United 4 Chelsea 0...

Of course he didn't take it, but maybe the club read that and changed their mind! Seriously though, I don't believe in curses. But if Quaresma saw that and believes it, its enough of a reason for him to not take it because then psychologically he is set to fail.

I don't think so, would cost too much money I think.

I wrote that before we signed Quaresma of course. I would play Quaresma instead of Stoch, give Kalou another chance, but look to bring Stoch on early if he doesn't do the business. Give Quaresma the full 90 if he's fit enough.

What's wrong with Tevez?

I'm not VERY happy but I am somewhat happy. He is better than what we have in theory so that's positive.

That's an unfortunate combination with laziness

Everyone who says Scolari should go either offers no alternative solution or the complete folly of "get Mourinho back!" It's simply not going to happen, so stop dreaming that it will! Who, realistically, could we bring in instead of Scolari?

I edited your post CJ. tags are allowed, you just had the wrong url in the tags.

Now officially completed.

Why did the club tell Robben not to take 7?

Manchester United are not as weak willed as Arsenal, and are fully capable of continuing form very similar to their current right up until the end. Where as we look completely out of ideas. I don't see Quaresma solving that, not every game. He's not that good. Liverpool did outclass. They restricted us to about one chance, and that came after the sending off if I remember rightly. The only thing the sending off did was turn the game from a draw to a stinging loss. I think Villa might well beat Arsenal to fourth and I hope they do. But I don't think Liverpool will faulter that badly. They do actually look different this season. That said, you always fancy them to slip up and for that reason we can still hope to reach second. But Manchester United are so much better than us now that I can't see us catching them, because we will slip up again many times before the end of the season even if they do. David, do we really need to lock this? We're not only talking about Quaresma you know.

I wonder if it is banned here for numbers to be that high? It might well be. He'll be given a high squad number because he is only on loan I suppose.

Seriously warnie? In the past month we have been outclassed by both teams occupying the places above us. Third is the best we can realistically expect for in my opinion. We can hope for 2nd, and 1st is way beyond us. 4th wouldn't be good, but it wouldn't be bad either. Below that is disastrous of course.

I think in all honesty what will happen is Gerrard will get a suspended sentence because he is "too important to the national interests" to be locked up straight away.

You forgot about the legendary Winston Bogarde BlueLion!

Well of course Stoch has gone further down the pecking order. We should now be playing Quaresma and Kalou with Stoch on the bench I feel.

Number 7 seems like the painfully obvious choice, but up to him in the end.

Welcome to the forum!