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Don't know why Schurrle was taken off. Also fuck Stoke, we should have won that game. Hazard's gotta be more selfish, take a fucking shot man, got into some great positions and kept passing it off. Mata had to drop way too deep too often.

Cech, Cahill, Ramires - all poor so far. Lamps would be nice to get a goal. Is Ba on the bench? Get him in there too.

Dumass goal to concede. Wtf was Cech doing?

lol Charlie Adam, I like him a little bit more now

That was Mike's first forward pass for Chelsea I think, an assist!

Get the 70-300mm. 55-300 isn't bad at all, but 70-300 mm is amazing and the best you can find, other than professional lenses of course. Also I'd say get the 35mm f/1.8 prime, it's cheap and probably the greatest value for money in camera lens history. It's unbelievably good for the price point. Plus having a prime lens forces you to think hard about composition. Def helps improve your photography skills, it did for me.

Here are some of mine, a lot of these are quite old, haven't had a chance to upload any new ones:

Great pictures. I hope I can make it down to the Bridge soon.

First time Willian - Mata - Hazard starting together?

Can't do anything when someone does incredibly stupid shit like Essien did there. We're actually creating a lot more than we normally do and really should be winning this if not for Essien.

Mikel injured - revert to 4-2-3-1 Terry injured - Cole on, Ivan CB, Azpi RB

wow that's bad lol

I've saved up some money as well for some investments. But I don't plan on micro-managing my investments, hence have been looking for a couple decent mutual funds which I can invest in for the long haul. Been busy at work so haven't had a chance to do any research. My initial inclination was to invest in real estate really but I travel a lot and move around alot for work so I don't want to tie down my money at a specific place just yet. Probably something I'll do for sure once I settle down.

What an entertaining match. I thought Everton showed their lack of inexperience several times. But that's expected considering their front 3 are so young. Gave up some cheap goals too, should have won really Everton. Also Lukaku, what a beast!!! Didn't get a look in first half, but was lethal when the game opened up second half. Deloeflu (sp?) got some nice dribbles but no end product unfortunately cause he got into some very very good positions.

That first time pass to Neymar between two Chile players while running at full speed was amazing. My jaw dropped. If only Neymar didn't fail so hard it would have been a beautiful goal. Willian makes everything look so easy.

Nice run and cross. He's a good crosser, always puts in dangerous balls when he gets wide.

in other words you have no idea who we should sign??I can give you a list of names but I'm trying to stay on topic of Lukaku and how he fits into our team. Don't really see a point of making a list, unless your point is that Lukaku is the best striker in the world or that there are no strikers in the world that can play for Chelsea. As far as the list goes, I'd love any of Rooney, Lewandowski, Cavani, even Dzeko and Mandzukic would improve our striker force mabutssively. But no point discussing this right now. I would have also liked us to be in for Tevez last summer, can't believe how cheap he went to Juve. Think he would have been perfect for us for at least a few years.

who would be the perfect fit for us ,, and who is the nearest that might be available????Until we find one, we'll have to make do with a suboptimal strike force and Lukaku would be part of that. Lukaku has a future here for sure, but if it's as a first choice cause we can't find a striker that suits our system then it won't be the ideal striker force but that won't stop us from competing, it hasn't before and it won't in the future either but it's still a bottleneck. That said, imo our pivot should be higher priority. We can make do with what we have this year and Lukaku and Torres for next year isn't the worst either if we can't find someone.

I never said he's not ready. In fact in my post, I said that he would have got a lot of minutes with us had we not bought Eto'o. But I also think he isn't good enough to be our first choice striker and it's not cause I think he's not ready, it's cause I don't think he's the type of striker that would flourish in our system. If he was 28 and in his prime, my point still wouldn't change, it all still applies. I just don't think he's the best fit at the moment and we seem to be waiting on him so he can fit but I don't think he ever will, he just isn't that type of striker. And, I mean best fit as first choice, I think as second choice he's amazing for any team, couldn't ask for any other striker to come off the bench and just run at opposing defences and just cause all kinds of troubles. But with our patient, high possession build-up he just doesn't fit imo. If we play counter-attack then he would fit imo, he'd be perfect for that type of system.

At this point in time, we shouldn't be judging Lukaku by the number of goals he's scoring (we all know he can score) but rather if he's improving in areas that are expected of him to be able to lead the line for Chelsea. I'm looking at his back to the goal play, his link-up play, his aerial ability, his first touch and sadly he has not improved much in these areas since last year! Now, either we give him more time and see if he can improve or we just concede that he isn't that kind of striker. He is a striker that would rather run in behind and at defences (like Old Torres) instead of a more complete striker like a Drogba (which seems to be the only type of striker that could work at Chelsea). If so, he will still have a large role to play for Chelsea but I'd reckon it'd be as a squad player (second choice) instead of first choice striker. And, I think this would have happened this very year but with Eto'o joining there just wasn't enough minutes to go around and Chelsea made the unselfish decision to let him go on loan to get him more playing time.

I'd never understand why you'd sell such a versatile player like Ramires. I can understand arguments for trying out different players for our pivot and turn Ramires into a squad player instead of having him as the only reliable midfielder but to sell him outright makes no sense to me. He's the ultimate team player.

I don't think either can be homegrown. Isn't it 3 years at the club prior to them turning 18?

We need to look at some English players. Cole and Lamps will possibly be leaving as soon as next year, we'll be forced to decrease our squad if we can't field enough homegrown players.

I thought him and Mikel were actually very good defensively, both were pressing not just Ramires. It's offensively that they were a bit lacking, especially in the first half. Second half I thought Ramires did a good job of breaking lines by running with the ball. On a separate note - One things for sure though, Ramires should be the primary attacker from the pivot. That said you'd really prefer if both pivot players could alternate. Lamps can do this but he just can't help control the midfield as much as you'd like from your pivot player. Of course neither can Ramires on a consistent basis, so it's just tough to have a good pivot as none of them complement each other, nor are any the kind of players you'd want in your pivot in the first place.

Imo Lamps best asset right now is his goal-scoring ability, and not his passing, defending, running, workrate etc. So he should be playing closer to the goal not farther. That said though, if he's going to be used as a CAM then it'll be down to sub appearances only for when we need goals cause if he starts there then that position requires him to be able to play in tight spaces and be good on the ball, both things that he not good at anymore. Hell, I'd even play him as a striker considering he'll probably need the least amount of scoring chances on our entire team to get a goal.