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  • #650074
    Chelsea.man
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    Delighted to see the Your say page back. i’m surprised that Ivanovic is still starting for us, and Terry is on the bench? Fabregas is starting for us and Hazard is on the bench?

    #650146
    BlueBlood
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    Ivanovic been our worst player this season so far …. Terry, think we need him back … the rest that didnt play against porto, either they been rested or the manager trying to prove something to the player, no one is invisible. Either way, very disappointed with chelsea this season so far .,.. been problems off and on the pitch, doesnt look to go away, one thing after another. Its certainly no a bad patch, this is more than that. We need to sort it out fast, otherwise bye bye to top 4

    #650398
    BlueLion
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    I’ve always been one of Jose’s biggest fans, but in all honesty I think he’s lost what made him the special one. Team spirit, tactics and man-management have always been his strong points but he is failing big time in all of these areas now.
    That game where Dave moved over to the right and Baba Rahman played on the left, his link-up play with Hazard was great and he played on the overlap like a natural left-winger. Dave was solid on the right too. But the next game Ivanovich is back in. Same happened with Loftus-Cheek – man of the match performance then doesn’t play again. Doesn’t make sense when the players that are getting picked are underperforming so badly.
    Honestly, I think this season went wrong on day one when Jose created the issue with Eva and the medical staff. Any failure this season falls solely on Jose’s shoulders in my opinion.

    #650422

    Thomas Jones
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    Disappointing season thus far. Chelsea looked rudderless on Tuesday – lacking leaders on the pitch. So bring back JT? Trouble is, the evidence of the Everton game was that you cannot play a high pressing game with a deep back line to protect JT, as it creates too much space in the midfield for opposition. Or in other words, you look like an AVB Chelsea team! So IMO Mourinho has to abandon either JT or the high pressing game – he cant have both. Personally I would have JT back for this season, and forget pressing. We will be much more organised and disciplined on that basis, and we know how to defend deep. Next summer though we absolutely HAVE to sign a defender with leadership qualities, and preferably a bit of pace. Otherwise it will be the same old story Mourinho gets paid the big bucks to sort this out, and ultimately I am confident that given time he will. He certainly needs to.

    #650545
    Simon Wilkes
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    Hi guys, it’s Si Wilkes, the old TEAMtalk Editor who ran the site from 2001-2014…I’m now head of editorial operations for Ole Media Group and we run TT from our Leeds office. We’d been wanting to make the sites work on mobiles and ipads for many, many years while we were at Sky Sports, but never got the green light.
    We’ve had some teething problems but the site finally looks good on mobile devices, which is amazing and makes it so much easier.
    Hope you enjoy it now Your Says are back.
    Si

    #650608
    BlueLion
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    Si, like the new site. The header still looks a bit broken on iPhone 6. Loads of wasted space around the top banner ad, and the nav button is out of line with the social media buttons. Overall, great job though!

    #650791

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    The team selection is easy nowadays because no matter how poorly Ivanovich & Fabregas play, they are in. However if Oscar or Ramires have a shocker they are certainly out. The problem is clear for me because even with our best team, whatever that may be, the current crop are no longer good enough to win the league. Jose knows it but he can’t say it. In the Summer we should have got Stones, a world class midfielder and someone better than Falcao up top. In the words of Carole King….it’s too late baby it’s too late!

    #651190
    notnice
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    you dont get all the content on a mobile so its very difficult to register-not even sure I can log in from a mobile

    #651199
    notnice
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    good point and probably true-there always next season

    #651202
    notnice
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    from what I can gather opposing teams are delighted to play against Ivanovich-cant undertstand why we still persisting with him when there are so many better options

    #651208
    notnice
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    also the replies are not going to the original post but are simply loading below all general posts in order

    #651805
    chelsea1967
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    Our problems lie with our midfield, in particular Matic and Fabregas way off the pace. Until Jose sorts them out we have real issues.

    #651814
    Mark Holmes
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    Notnice, the log-in for the Your Say pages on mobiles is just beneath the forum. Any problems, let us know.

    We are now using threads rather than a message board. All posts on one thread should be related.

    #652078
    Chelsea.man
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    @chelsea1967, i don’t understand why the press and fellow fans are on the back of Matic? even Mourinho seems to have some doubts about him. for me the root cause of our problem is simple, drop Fabregas and Ivanovic and replace them with, Baba Rahman and Ramires. Oscar is our best no 10 as at now based on Mourinho’s system of front players should defend higher up the pitch. we need natural fullbacks. another problem of our season is that we have lost our shooting ability. Mourinho is also trying to shift our play around Hazard. we need to revert back to our old self and atleast gain some confidence. restore Terry as soon as possible and drop Fabregas and Ivanovic. Costa has to change his behaviors or risks being isolated. i was one of his strongest supporters, but his behaviors of late is unjustifiable. i trust Mourinho to sort this problem as soon as possible.

    #652438

    nine nine nine
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    Delighted to see this site back it’s been lonely shouldering all our problems with no fellow Chelsea fans to discuss them with.

    Here’s my take on it all:

    1) Jose needs to stop picking silly fights and I am not convinced that the Eva pantomime hasn’t had an impact on the squad.

    2) Restore JT he has lost a bit of the pace he didn’t have anyway but we need a leader on the pitch.

    3) Retain Zouma with JT to maintain a bit of pace alongside him.

    4) Rest Ivanovich he’s been awful, move Azpi to r/back and bring in Baba.

    5) Move Fabregas further forward and give Loftus Cheek a run alongside Matic.

    6) Try and do a bit of transfer business in January to plug the obvious holes.

    Keep the faith lads it will turn around in the end there is to much quality not to but this season in the PL its going to be about ensuring our CL place which currently looks some way off!

    #652639

    mtal61
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    Hi chaps,glad to be back among Chelsea fans with familiar and not so familiar names like 999 chelsea.man blue lion etc.I’m not normally superstitious but maybe this Chelsea slump is a bit of a jinx with the regular TeamTalk being out of commission lol!.I think Jose needs to stop giving the media an insight into what’s going on with our players and this bad run we’re going through…if he’s contractually obligated to talk to them then just engage them in small talk only,he really shouldn’t be going into details about individual players or team politics.It’s not the 1st time we’ve been in a slump but keeping our own council and implementing a siege mentality around the squad we eventually played our way out of it without the media’s help!.I don’t blame Jose for the action he took dropping players for Porto.Ok,it didn’t quite come off but Jose couldn’t stand idly by and do nothing,he had to do something …anything!.The players need to take responsibility,stand up and be counted,after all this is their problem too as well as Jose’s.Strange why so many players have gone off the boil all at the same time.

    #652645
    Chelsea.man
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    Hi 999, delighted to see you back. I agree with you we should drop Ivanovic. But at the moment Fabregas is struggling to affect games both defensively and offensively. I would like either RLC or Ramires to replace him. Another distraction is the behavoir of Costa. I would like Mourinho to have a word with him. He should concentrate on scoring like he did in the first half of last season. Very delighted with the form of Willian though.

    #652666
    Chelsea.man
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    Hi Mtal61, glad to see you back. I think Mourinho needs to revert back to our old system which is defending deep. Am desperate to see JT back at the heart of our defence. at the heart of our woes is the form of Ivanovic and Fabregas. Inparticular Ivanovic. Am surprised that Matic is being blamed. Costa is another player who needs to change his style of play.

    #652741
    chelsea1967
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    nine nine nine pleased to see familiar faces gradually find their way back on here. I’m thinking that it has lost its personality and most likely most of its regular contributors. I will visit sparingly as the site is unstable on my computer. This post alone taking ten minutes to complete.

    #652762

    nine nine nine
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    Chelsea 1967, stay patient mate the regulars will find their way back and the site will overcome any early teething problems. The instant posts are a positive as is the forum format imo. The guys who put this all together are some of the same guys responsible for footyplace another site I participate in and this site is based on footyplace which works very well. Cheers 999

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