Blue Armour

Hazard setup 3 goal scoring chances towards the end...I don't know what was up with Remy for two of them, although I suspect he took a knock before the second one came his way. Willian bungled up the third.

But all the same, still value him for what he's contributed over the years...don't mind him staying on, just hope the other senior player in the squad is given equal treatment

After all that's happened this season, all I can do now after seeing this is laugh. uncontrollably..

I'm not saying go out and get a Gundogan/Pogba., and yes we we need to be shrewd with our transfers, like you said. But IMO, getting Pato is more of a gamble and falls into the territory of signings like Benayoun, Falcao (even if he is a lot younger than those two)... where there is potential for them to contribute immensely to the squad but more often than not they end up being injured/wasted on the bench and become a headache to get rid of in the next window. I do hope things improve in May like you suggest.

Like FB said, I'm hoping that this is just a bad period for him...Cech had a torrid time in the second half of 2008-2009, especially in the league, but came back to finish the season strong...with the highlight being the semi-final leg at Camp Nuo

Like FB said, I'm hoping that this is just a bad period for him...Cech had a torrid time in the second half of 2008-2009, especially in the league, but came back to finish the season strong...with the highlight being the semi-final leg at Camp Nuo

A striker before a CM/full-back? Pato as the first choice target for said striker? Come on Chelsea, enough trolling with the fans this season...

Haha....in the midst of all the ordinary results., its easy to forget that our goal threat has considerably increased.

Going through the first 6 pages of this thread and you can remember what a stellar player he used to be ...People were actually praising his crossing technique! how the mighty have fallen...

Great post, and loved the sandwich analogy at the end. Though, if I had to choose, Pedro would be the pickle. Not everyone's first choice. Would rather have an extra slice of bacon in Kennedy.

But when would be a good time to sign? At least now you can fool new signings into thinking top 4 is a possibility, or at least offer them a chance to play in the CL knockout stages... Not all our solutions can be found in the youth squad, and I'm pretty sure we're not going to get squat in the summer window. The best thing we can hope from the summer window is for Madrid's transfer ban to be upheld. However, I will admit if targets like Scott Dann are what we are being linked with, I'd rather we get no-one.

You pointed it out yourself. Costa going out almost killed the game for us as there was no one up front willing to drag us back into the game. The mentality of the team is so fragile at the moment, that they let their heads drop a little after Costa hobbled off. The team has far too many passengers in the squad.

How ironic that those figures were reading almost the complete opposite last season, when most of the losses happened only when he was absent from the lineup. His confidence has taken a beating this season, and it will probably take something like scoring the winning goal in a big match to restore a significant portion of it. He definitely should not start games again any time soon, but he's not as bad a player as most are making him out to be right now. This is clearly his worst ever season, and I don't like judging players based on seasons like that. A few months ago, people were trashing Costa no end, and now he's the figurehead of our anticipated revival.

You have to wonder if someone is protecting Ivanovic's position in the squad with him being the first 30+ yr old player getting this kind of contract extension ahead of others...the fact that we haven't even attempted to go in for a second RB ever since Bosingwa left adds to the conspiracy theories. The most annoying thing to watch in the game was him ball watching for the 3'rd Everton goal...seemed like he had all the time in the world to react but did nothing

No potentially good young RB in the squad ,..clearly Hiddink isn't confident in Baba Rahman. Really hope the board/Hiddink dives into the market and pulls up a quality full-back. Will not be considered an impulsive buy in my book.

The more the chances of top four slip away and we slip into the doldrums in the league table, the more I hope players like RLC and Kennedy will start matches. Time for a reincarnation of sorts...

Please don't send out on loan...please don't send out on loan.... I know he probably won't get too many minutes here, but sending him out on loan would just mean the beginning of the end of his Chelsea career

Not complaining about this, but why was this looked into ahead of JT's? Really peeved about that one....

Hah, we play where we want.

Haha, hope there are a few Arsenal fans squirming over that one. Gets pretty annoying to hear them bleat about Sanchez over Hazard.

Really spared Cahill's blushes there

This. At least for the sake of rotation, Baba deserves a look-in from Hiddink. Today, Kennedy, RLC and Traore finally got their much deserved game time..., so step forward in the right direction perhaps with Baba getting in on the act?

Can't agree more..haven't had this much personality and talent rolled up into a Chelsea player since Drogba. The club has to try its best to hold onto him as long as they can, even if it means excusing poor seasons like this one. (And before someone comes back to me saying that Drogba had a never-say-die attitude unlike Hazard, I said 'personality', not 'character')

It will be hard if that happens, but on the flipside, Ashley Cole and Fabregas togther have won the PL, CL, FA cup and Carling Cup with us.

Haha, hopefully not to the point where Costa starts swearing at the camera! :-D