Re: Chelsea V Aston Villa: Saturday 17th October at 3PM

by **Sandie** Sat Oct 17, 2015 4:08 pm

GadgetMan wrote:Also nothing will convince me Amavi deserves to be dropped. He would have blossomed in that first half side, with the focus on pressurising and attacking intent.

Aye, one of the pundits was saying that what we need to bring Gestede into things more. The reason for his lack of influence is that our best crosser of the ball is on the bench. If he was dropped for the reason Evans says then Guzan and Lescott are far more obvious culprits for giving goals away and making errors. Yet, both keep their place.

by South London Villan Sat Oct 17, 2015 4:09 pm

Grealish is getting at them

by **Sandie** Sat Oct 17, 2015 4:10 pm

by South London Villan Sat Oct 17, 2015 4:13 pm

Hutton out of position, then deflected off him

by South London Villan Sat Oct 17, 2015 4:16 pm

Fabregas is good at falling over

by South London Villan Sat Oct 17, 2015 4:25 pm

They have 2 on Ayew going forward.

Adama coming on

by **Sandie** Sat Oct 17, 2015 4:30 pm

Adama might mix things up for us a bit.

by South London Villan Sat Oct 17, 2015 4:33 pm

Guzans distribution is shite

by **Sandie** Sat Oct 17, 2015 4:40 pm

Even when he was doing well it was. His kicking, in particular, has always been laughable.

by **Sandie** Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:01 pm

Can't bring myself to be too upset about that. It's Chelsea away and not really the type of game we go to and hope to win (unlike games at home against the likes of Stoke and Sunderland). Next week's game will be much more telling.

by GadgetMan Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:16 pm

We were poor on balance, looked uninterested second half (Bit like Ray Wilkins who apparently spent most of the game joking with the Chelsea bench, according to Matt Law, nice he gives a shit)

Bringing on Amavi was surely an admittance he messed it up to start with? Since trying to play through Gestede we've dropped Bacuna and now Amavi (our best crossers) we look like a disorganised rabble. Tim has clearly lost his appetite for the job too. Him and Robins were sat motionless on the bench most of the second half.

I didn't expect anything and feel nothing (it's the norm now) only real disappointment is that it wasn't the hammering that will either see him walk or be sacked....Yet!

by GadgetMan Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:21 pm

4 points from 36 worse than any previous incumbents under Randy Lerner.

Lerner needs to drop his price and stop playing silly buggers with his demands and lack of availability (when an offer is there) in the meantime, he needs to appoint a Chairman to run this club properly (like he said he would) and then they need to (with Fox and whoever else) get rid of Tim and appoint a real experienced football manager and a quality backroom team. If not, this will be the year we finally drop.

by avfcff1982 Sat Oct 17, 2015 5:39 pm

I predicted a defeat, always hoped we get something, guess I'm naive, but Chelsea were there for the taking, they lacked confidence, and were ripe for smacking, Tim didn't think so though.

It's all very well saying we didn't play too badly, and we were better today, but that's not good enough, we should be going into every game expecting to win, whether it's Chelsea or Blunderland, and coming away with points.

It's not looking good, Sherwood has lost his mojo, and replaced it with a look of complete dejection, bordering on boredom. Still, he has the backing of them at the club.

Another couple of bad results might destroy the confidence of the players so much, we'll be on slippery slope downwards.

Lerner needs to get of his rich arse, and get over here to sort things out, instead of flying everyone over there first class, to have tea and scones, and a chat, waste of sodding space that bloke is!

by **Sandie** Sat Oct 17, 2015 6:26 pm

I can see us hitting crisis point if the next game goes against us.

by South London Villan Sat Oct 17, 2015 11:43 pm

MOTD poor edited highlights not reflective of how poor Chelsea were.

Glad Motd highlighting with Shearer how poor Guzan was in 3 games, man city, palace and today with the same mistake

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