Newcastle vs Chelsea

[Styles 9,790]

Nobody is mentioning how Drogba is doing nothing.

He has malaria if you hadn't noticed. He probably shouldn't even be on the pitch but being the man that he is is doing his best.

What was Anelka doing?

[DYC. 7,542]

Nobody is mentioning how Drogba is doing nothing.

Are you kidding me? I remember BlueLion, Steve (i think) and me mentioning Drogba has poor for over more than a month or two.

[Laylabelle 9,296]

Which is nothing. We had 5-7 points lead.

Exaclty.We had that lead and now we're 2 behind

Shit as performance was.Happy with a point.Easily could've been worse and didnt think even get that.Next week need to bloody do one better

Newcastles goal though jesus christ!!

Ever since Drogs got ill he's been poor.Then got captaincy and got worse!

[BRMC 12]

Drogbas had malaria though so its not his fault, id still take a recovering Drogba over any other forwards in the squad.

[bloody 209]

fuck alex n mikel for giving newcastle their goal.....

fuck Drogba, anelka, kalou n malouda for not scoring 2 goals.........

[Term-X 7,891]

Ramires is shocking. Genuinely one of the worst players I have ever seen seen in a Chelsea shirt. Even De Lucas was better than him.

I wouldn't mind, but he cost £18 MILLLION for fuck sake.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Another of those games. Absolutely deserved to win. Can't really fault the performance but the commitment of the players certainly needs addressing.

[BluesChick 1,260]

I swear it is the month of November... for the past 3 seasons it has been one of our worst months!! It's almost over so maybe our backslide is too!

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Player Ratings

Cech 5/10

Bosingwa 6/10

Ivanovic 6/10

Alex 4/10

A. Cole 5/10

Mikel 4/10

Ramires 5/10

Malouda 6/10

Anelka 3/10 (awful.)

Drogba 5/10 (quiet.)

Kalou 6/10

Sturridge 6/10 (and that's just in 10minutes he was allowed on)

[Styles 9,790]

I wouldn't mind, but he cost £18 MILLLION for fuck sake.

Tiote who ran the show for Newcaslte cost £3m. He is about 10x the player Ramires is.

Whoever scouts for Chelsea is stealing a living.

[Laylabelle 9,296]

Another of those games. Absolutely deserved to win. Can't really fault the performance but the commitment of the players certainly needs addressing.

Its so half hearted. Gotta be a confidence thing as well.Newcastle were all over us we just kept running into them!!

Decemember...cant see us getting much better with the fixtures but never know.Least we finally got a point at least ended this shitty run.

[5354 204]

Tiote who ran the show for Newcaslte cost £3m. He is about 10x the player Ramires is.

Whoever scouts for Chelsea is stealing a living.

Don't forget Zhirkov who sits on the bench/

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Drogbas had malaria though so its not his fault, id still take a recovering Drogba over any other forwards in the squad.

Then Carlo's at fault for playing him. One of the good things about Scolari (..just one), when he was manager he never played someone who wasn't 100% fit.

Drogba's equally (if not, more) at fault for not telling the manager he's still suffering. I would've rather Anelka play there being flanked by Kalou & Sturridge. Carlo's blinded by reputation.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

All the Ramires haters will go quiet when he comes good. I imagine all of you berating him joined the 'Drogba and Malouda are shit' bandwagon in their first seasons at the club as well.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Tiote who ran the show for Newcaslte cost £3m. He is about 10x the player Ramires is.

Whoever scouts for Chelsea is stealing a living.

Definitely. Ironically, it was Drogba who convinced him to come to England. Where were Chelsea when this happened? Chasing an £18million rip off, that what.

[Milan 17,835]

The most frustrating thing is being aware of our next fixtures. Bloody hell if Carlo and especially players don't change anything, we are going to be smashed and out of the race. To December we should have been coming as the top team with some gap and what happened - United are ahead of us although they have been fucking weak. December - now or never.

[The Big Drog 1,110]

Obviously not a great result but being honest Im not that annoyed about it. After a horrific mistake of Ferdinand and Van Der Sar proportions, we got back into it, dominated the game and were probably unlucky not to get the win in the end. Yes 3 points and top spot would have been nice but that didn't materialise, the reason for my mild feelings is that Im safe in the knowledge that the bison, Essien, is back enxt week along with captain bloody wonderful John Terry and boy how much do we need them, all that is needed after that is for super Frank to make his return and I'll be positively upbeat.

The negatives, obviously poor defending, that we didn't get 3 points and that Kalou finds a way to both delight and infuriate in equal measure, Mikel looking unlikely to make a tackle in 90 minutes of play and Nicolas Anelka's frustrating one paced play from deep, when it works its great, but like today when his touch is off it just breaks down everything attack he becomes involved in.

The positives were Branislav Ivanovic who appeared to be defending on his own at times, in particular in the second half I thought he was excellent, Florent Malouda who even playing from his less favoured central midfield role looked good and was influential and the biggest positive of all today was Ramires who in the second half stood up to the challenge, gave it 100% and was excellent, very much looked the part today and came out of the match with more credibility than he had before the game began.

Things to think about for the future would be signing another centre back, Alex clearly should not have been on the pitch today. Starting Daniel Sturridge, he is lively, he looks more mature than he did last season, he looks like he is ready to start for Chelsea, he was fantastic mid week against Zilina and I think he would be well worth a starting role against Everton next weekend.

2 points dropped but given the form we are in at least thats not 3 points dropped, there were a few positives to take from the game, the performance was pretty good and next week Michael Essien and John Terry return and thats the biggest positive there is for this side at the moment.

[DYC. 7,542]

Ramires should change his shirt number.

Personally i always give a player a full season to get used to things etc. and will start 'judging' him in his 2nd season. But considering his 18 million pounds price tag, the comments on him are understandable.