Blue Armour

Apart from the last part, I can pretty much agree with the rest of your post. Everyone supporter can have an opinion

Not too mention our defense of the CL title...our club holds a lot of good records, but then there are infamous ones like these, lol.

Insanity. - doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Out of curiosity, was he even on the bench in this game?

I'm especially worried about City eclipsing everything we've achieved so far. They play beautiful attacking football, but we used to get results. But now we don't even have that. The only shield we have against them our CL win. We desperately need to add 1 more CL win to put some distance between our achievements and theirs.

Probably that, knowing how he generally shifts the blame to someone else. The board haven't covered themselves in glory in this transfer window, but that's no excuse for a team playing like this.... No chance up front, goals galore conceded and no results..whether you have board backing transfers or not. That's just poor

Finally, the moment we've all been waiting for.... A match were he just might drop Ivanovic. EDIT But knowing Mourinho, he will start him again in hopes of getting his form back up by playing decent against minnows.

Heh...we were all hoping that he would have been dropped a couple of games before..he's only dragging his name and Ivanovic's in the mud by starting him over and over.

Only because, there's no ready replacement available on the market and we don't have an asst. manager with a bigger name. If this was RDM right now, he would have been gone right after the end of this match.

Not just that, but 13 goals conceded in 5 matches? That's just pathetic, considering we don't even have a style of play up front. Hazard, Ivanovic, Fabregas, Costa, Terry, Matic...players that helped secure the title last season are all playing with their heads down and no confidence. This has got to go down to the manager. No one else. The stupid handling of that Carnerio system has only made things worse.

Too easy for him.

I'm going off player reputation when I say this, but in IMO, it doesn't compare with Falcao's who's adept with both feet and is a better header of the ball..

I didn't say he can't score equalizers., or any crucial goal for that matter. I was saying I doubt he would've scored the type of goal Falcao did...which was the diving header in a crowded penalty area. And neither did I say that Falcao deserved an automatic start over Remy. All I meant was that in the situation we were in after Palace went 1-0 up, Falcao would have been the logical choice because of his poaching ability

I also hate that Falcao has just taken Remy's spot with no contest,..but I doubt Remy would've scored the goal Falcao did against Palace. After Palace took the lead, and elected to pack their box with players, it was going to take something special to score from that point. That goal came almost out of nowhere, considering how poor our attack was that day.

If that's really the case, then the board have made the same classic mistake they made back in 2010 after we won the title.... Basically assume that if players A,B,C were instrumental in winning the title then, A, B and C can win it for you again with no worries....forgetting that A, B and C are not machines or series of stats...and that at least 2 out of the 3 are guaranteed to lose form or at least not match the same performance level they showed last season...

Well lets just say, I doubt any criticism would improve Ivanovic's performance. Just trying to be meek, lol

He was dropped, but he started the very next the game. Not too much to read into the JT situation, IMO. The only player who could have his head down because of the Eva incident, is Hazard who was almost directly responsible for her coming onto the pitch.

Because that would be almost like beating a dead horse? He criticized Hazard and RLC because he knew they were young, and could take it upon themselves to improve their performances based on their potential. Ivanovic is most likely over the hill at this point... criticism would probably end up only depressing him.

I think his best chance in the game was the one he fashioned by himself, when he went on that mazy run against their defense....Unfortunately he elected to lay the ball off to Hazard or someone else, instead of taking the shot himself. I wish he would do more of this...especially now, when our midfield is playing below par.

Well tbf, with your "I told you so" kind of attitude its kind of hard to say that you actually care about how well the club fares

Also, 11 goals conceded so far..the most by a team this season. If this is Mourinho's idea of a joke, its not a very funny one

He might have stood a chance of recovering his form if he came into the squad with the rest of the team playing stellar football...but no, he joined us when the rest of the team were playing like shite. How typical.

Any chance that the Eva Carneiro thing is playing in the back of his mind? He's a slow starter, but this was really poor even by his early season standards. He's hardly running at players and seems content with letting other players take responsibility in creating chances. Could say the same for Fabregas as well, but at least he was taking occasional shots at goal

Tbh...at no point in the game did I expect Mourinho to take off Ivanovic, or Fabregas for that matter. Someone mentioned it before, but because JT is not available, it would have been highly doubtful that he would remove another of his "leaders". Our defense had to suffer for it though.

He's alright at stemming the flow, till he makes that one error that leads to us conceding a goal. I agree that he can be a "stopgap" solution, but not more. And if none of our attacking midfielders are having a good game, then you can expect the ball to remain in our half of the pitch for 80% of the time.