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Funnily enough, we never dropped into the relegation zone under Mourinho. Yes, Hazard's form is bad this season. Didn't say it isn't but at least come out with better reasons for it.

There's something seriously wrong with us if we can't get that second straight league win tonight. It's been more than 6 months since we last won back-to-back games in the league!

Chelsea vs Everton PRE-MATCH DISCUSSION AND LIVE CHAT 2015/16 Premier League Match 22 16th January, Saturday, 2016 Stamford Bridge 15:00 Kick Off (UK time)

A post-match thread with only 2 pages? I know people have nothing to complain when we win but this must be a record!

Considering things always get a little 'interesting' in the match threads, don't think it's wise to scare off potential members. If possible, we should just stick with what we did previously - non-members can't view the match threads.

No one is allowed to say anything about Hazard? Please, share with us where you saw that memo or even announcement. If you want to critique Hazard's form this season, that's fine. But if you're gonna do that by throwing out things like 'he has no balls', 'he's faking his injuries', 'he doesn't fancy it' or doubting his professionalism, then that is where things start to get silly and you can expect people to refute those points. And if you really want to talk about hypocrites, how about those people who asked for Mourinho to be given time and not to be sacked because of one bad season? How about those who continued to give their backing for Torres even though he did next to nothing for us? What about those who asked for patience with someone like Oscar despite his inconsistency? With Hazard, one bad season and people suddenly want him out.

But remember, he has no balls according to some on here...

Dear oh dear. The board might be even more clueless than initially thought if they are going to give Ivanovic a new contract. The only way this deal (God forbid it!) is going to be accepted is if Ivanovic's role next season is reduced to a bit-part/squad player role and he is used to provide experience and some sort of leadership (Terry and maybe Mikel aside, there isn't much of that battle hardened, winning mentality, leadership in the squad). We CANNOT have a player who is already over the hill playing week in week out and who is not a right back playing at right back. Otherwise, we will not progress as a team!

Some have mentioned this before - ask Pedro to play like an actual winger and you will get a very average player. Play to his strengths and you will get a very good player (not saying he's world class or we should build the team around him). He clearly has his strengths. Just need to find a way to exploit it better - executing one-two moves (remember his goal at West Brom?), making use of his off the ball runs (remember that clear cut chance he got against Scunthorpe when Fabregas spotted his run?), creating chances in the box (he's already shown he can finish).

@Jim, are we now allowing non-members to view the posts in match threads?

Not sure Sean Dyche would field a strong team for that one since Burnley are chasing PL promotion.

Another bloody easy tie for Arsenal!!

I know we bought Bertrand from another club into our academy but he did score one for us in 2012 - against Wolves in the League Cup.

Careful now. We wouldn't want people to roll the 'he has no balls' bandwagon again.....

I criticized Hiddink's team selection today and I still stand by it but fair play to him for his half-time change - bringing on Loftus-Cheek for Oscar. Introducing a youth player for a supposedly experienced one when we aren't playing great and are still only leading 1-0 is something that Mourinho would never do, even against teams like Scunthorpe.

Lampard-esque goal.

I don't know. More often than not, we do just enough to beat his teams, even at home. 2008/09 - Chelsea 2-1 Stoke 2009/10 - Chelsea 7-0 Stoke 2010/11 - Chelsea 2-0 Stoke 2011/12 - Chelsea 1-0 Stoke 2012/13 - Chelsea 1-0 Stoke 2013/14 - Chelsea 2-1 Crystal Palace 2014/15 - (Pulis only took over WBA after we played them at home)

People say Bale is better than Hazard. The former went and scored a hat-trick. People say Azpi is poor offensively. He went and provided the assist for Loftus-Cheek.

It's like people never learned with the De Bruyne, Lukaku scenarios... Just like how the fans booed Costa in the Sunderland match and suddenly it's all 'Diego, Diego, Diego' in the following games.

You do realize @BlueLion is no longer an admin? Pointless trying to kiss his arse.