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We may not always agree with what he decides to do but what we must not forget is that Roman does what he feels is best for the club, he wants us to succeed as much as we do and reach our potential.

I honestly don't think i have a preference for manager. All i want to see is someone come in, be given the backing needed to rebuild this squad and get us playing good football again. It is so simplistic to look at managers who have won the CL or been successful in other countries. We should be looking deeper and getting the manager with the right qualities or us rather than just going for someone who has won something before. I just want the appointment made asap to get ourselves set properly for the new season

Not that i am saying that Josh doesn't need to improve still and develop but why does a young player coming through have to be perfect? Because the players currently playing in our first team most certainly are not, Josh gave the ball away no more than any other player, and played more forward dangerous balls than any other player, even from his deep position. Its time we lower our expectations a little. Young players WILL make mistakes and we cannot expect them to play to the same standard immediately of the rest of the first team. Josh always shows he is more than capable, a loan will only be needed for him if Carlo is not willing to give him more minutes on the pitch which he should have been give more time i feel given the form of the team.

Once again this group showed fantastic belief and passion and they fully deserved their win. Some sticky patches in the first half but other than the goal Blackburn never really threatened our goal. So pleased for the boys and glad they have again managed to end on a high. It is a real end too for Bobby Devyne and Michael Woods from this team who will be leaving in the summer. You will see our youth and reserves competing every season now for these competitions because we are continuing to bring through some very good talent.

In my eyes Josh has proved himself every time he has played in the first team. He was very good again today playing deep, he will learn well there but his natural position is number 10. His passing and ability on the ball is quality. We most certainly should not over expose him and expect him to play every game, but we have had some poor performances in midfield this season and he has done no worse than any other midfielder in our squad. A loan move would be good for him of course but we could also use him ourselves. There is no way anyone could be critical of Josh's performance yesterday

Another that looks like it will happen this summer. The question with Lukaku is will we bring him straight into the team or let him gain more expereince on loan first?

It would seem that this transfer is definately on the cards for this summer. I for one would be well pleased. There is obviosuly a question over him building on his potential and his temperament but he has unbelieveable ability. Ronaldo had the same issues and i am sure Man Utd were not upset they signed him. This lad is exaclty what we are lacking and if it goes through as it looks like it will then great.

Have really struggled to find the time to post on here and write articles due to work and family. However i am planning on beefing up my Youth & Reserves contribution across the board next season. And i would certainly be looking to on a regular basis put some articles together for the site.

We should most definately be considering keeping Jack Cork around. As has been mentioned using him as a squad player would be easy to accomodate him and if he progressed further then even better for us. Jack has impressed everywhere he has been much like Ryan Bertrand and has taken each step up in his stride. Unfortunately i can't see it happening and i am not sure why. If young players (and i am including players up to 23) are not content to be squad players and push for regular places then we may as well shut down our academy now, at the same time if we are not willing to give our young players the chance to be squad players, then again what are we doing. Jack Cork has shown he can cut it in the Premier League, we don't need him to come in now and force anyone out the starting 11, we need a player who can be counted on when needed and hopefully continue to grow into a better player. If we do not even give him a chance in our first team then that is a real shame because how could we ever possibly know, it's not like he has not impressed on loan spells. Michael Mancinne on the other hand though for me i don't think is of a standard for our team, squad player or otherwise and i think moving on now would be best for him. Scott Sinclair was poorly managed and had some loan spells where he was not utilised. I am not at all suprised he is doing as well as he is because he is a quality player and he will play in the Premier League for someone soon.

Some changes should be made. Number 1 should be ryan Bertrand starting the last 2 games. Josh should get at least 30 mins in the last 2 games also. There is little point in carrying on playing the same players for the last 2 games with nothing to play for,.

Yes i will be making extended highlights of the game that will be uploaded to my Youtube page on Friday... Usually he plays Attacking midfield, but last night and on a couple of other occasions he has played holding midfielder under Carlo's instruction.

A big achievment for the club. We are usually no-where near the top of the reserves league. But we are producing some excellent young players and it is showing. The Final of the North v South is likely to be against United so another showdown with Man U is on the horizon. Last night was pure domination, Wolves didn't get anywhere near a sniff. Some top performances. Gokhan Tore was brilliant showed all he has learned this season. Tomas Kalas has for me been top class since his arrival in January and looks an exciting prospect. Josh was sublime in the holding role with some excellent throughballs to the forward even from that deep. Top stuff.

I can't see how we could lose by appointing Zola as assistant manager for Carlo, his input on the training pitch would be invaluable and he would gain the respect of the players at the club also. I really hope this done happen...

A lot will depend on the formation that Carlo has in mind for next season. If we are not planning to play 4-3-3 then wingers are not so important, at the moment i wouldn't like to guess what our targets are but it would seem that Neymar is certainly a target for us. We do need to rebuild again this summer and really rebuild giving Carlo the summer to work with a improved squad for a attack on all fronts next season.

Having Zola as an assistant manager would be perfect. For me we have to at all levels of the club have Chelsea blood running through it, when players retire we need to encourage them to go into coaching our youngsters and work their way up the levels and potentially manage the first team one day. Working alongside Carlo would be great for Zola and if he develos with the learning then there is no reason why he cannot be the top boss in the future.

From what i can gather it is an U16's competition. There are lots of these types of competitions at the younger ages that go on and by all accounts Chelsea have been cleaning up recently. This is a very very talented group of young players most of which have played U18's football this season. Most notably Lewis Baker, Walter Figuera (has also made a reserves appearance), Alistair Gordon (has made a reserves start) & Jordan Houghton. As i said, pretty much all the others have also played for the U18's already. John Swfit is a stand out name but he has had injury problems. Only a few names on there that are not familiar (Dion Conroy, Ben Klip, Kevin Wright, Ambrose Gnahore,Kinda John Kiran). Would expect this group of boys to do very well over there....

Wouldn't count on it, until things are Mathematically done and dusted Carlo will field his strongest side. I wonder how different things would be if we had gone 4-3-3 from the start and played our normal game? Who knows, Man Utd are still a top side with some great players so it would have been a tough game anyway. A lot of this side will be able to play in next seasons comp also.

Actually we played incredibly badly, so many passes going astray, struggling to create anything in attack, it was a poor poor performance. For me Dermot Drummy has to take the blame for this one, the descision to change from 4-3-3 to the midfield diamond was a shocking thing to do. This Chelsea team play 4-3-3, they play quick high tempo attacking football. Drummy set them up to try and hold to their 1 goal lead and the negativity of the formation and tactics took the players outof their natural game and they couldn't recover. Everything that has been good about this youth team was totally missing last night, and it is such a shame. These boys didn't deserve to go out last night like that. Also playing Josh in the holding role in the second half was another tactical blunder. Again this team has always played with balance, the right type of players in the positions. With 3 midfielders (McEachran, Chalobah and Saville) 2 of them are more defensive and 1 is a attacking midfield playmaker, and to play the attacking player in holding role when we needed a goal was criminal. Our proper football was never given a chance and do have done that at this stage was terrible. Having said that Man Utd are a bloody good youth team, and they certainly physically dominated us.........

At the moment Billy Clifford. Billy is a year ahead of Todd Kane for a start, but also at the moment a better player. Billy is a really exciting prospect either at right back or in midfield. His performance in this years youth cup have been nothing short of supberb. Todd Kane is also a very good right back prospect who can play midfield or right wing, same as Billy, and obviously could have just as impressive season next year as Billy is having now, but we will see. It is nice to have these options because they are all top prospects. As things stand though i think Billy Clifford has more chance of breaking through. George has had an impressive season, particulary in the youth cup, for the youth team he has been moved around all over the park, but his midfield berth for the youth cup is obviously his best position. Tenacious in the tackle (some times a little too much) and skilled on the ball he has very good attributes to be a very good holding midfielder. The way he was moved around the park at youth level made me worry he would struggle to break through with no settled position, but this season he has really shown what he is all about. Next season will be an important one for him and i hope he can progress nicely.

We have a massive fear at this club of playing youngsters. We would rather have an older play playing out of position, which for me is a nonsence. Aziz and Billy are real talents. Both have very bright futures, for Aziz though he has Patrick Van Aanholt and Ryan Bertrand ahead of him and even Ben Gordon. None of those can get a game and they have football league experience. Billy Clifford is a very good right back and a very good midfielder too. I hope he gets some chances soon. We have to have faith in our younger players, we give them no confidence at all at the moment. It is a shame.

The trouble is that we have been waiting long enough, every season we think the changes will come. It will not come cheap either. So firstly can we afford to make big changes (Financial fair play rules), will Roman be willing to add anymore big funding. Whilst i think it is clear that there will be quite a few changes in the summer it is very unclear as to what changes will happen.

It is good to see the Journo's put under some pressure to back up their claims. And to be fair to Gigi she does it all the time. These journo's can write what they like and say it came from a "source".....

We have too many of our key players over 30, that much is for sure. Some we should move on and others we should keep and use a lot more carefully and not have to rely on them so much like what United do with Scholes and Giggs. We have taken far too long to look at rebuilding our squad, it needed to be done a while ago. We need to create some stability in this club in the summer, make some much needed changes and push on in a new direction next season,.

A lot of the youth team players have accounts, to add to the above list: Jacob Mellis - https://twitter.com/#!/jmellis52 Lewis Baker - https://twitter.com/#!/lew_baker Jordan Houghton - https://twitter.com/#!/HOUGHTON_J Ismail Seremba - https://twitter.com/#!/IsmailSeremba Ryan Bertrand - https://twitter.com/#!/ryanbertrand3 Fankaty Dabo - https://twitter.com/#!/inspired_fank Danny Stenning - https://twitter.com/#!/Dstenning Nortei Nortei - https://twitter.com/#!/norteildn Philipp Prosenik - https://twitter.com/#!/P_Prosenik Ben Gordon - https://twitter.com/#!/bengordon91 Danny Mills Pappoe - https://twitter.com/#!/Dannypapps George Saville - https://twitter.com/#!/georgesav77 Kaby Djalo - https://twitter.com/#!/aliudjalokaby And new Brazilian Signing Lucas Piazon - https://twitter.com/#!/lpiazon

Unsuprisingly the media have gone into overdrive on Carlo's future today. The question we need to ask ourselves is if this is just to generate a story or if there have been genuine noises coming out of the club to the journo's to this effect? There is already to be plenty of change at the club this summer but it could turn out to be a massive change...