Immediate reaction to the goalless draw with Norwich

But he hasn’t been good enough to start for a while. His best seems to match the rest of the teams average performances. I’d like a new left winger tbh.

while he didnt do anything wrong, he didnt really bring much, as usual, he and his build up play is slow

Riught now he still refuses to pass to Nando. It’s painfully onvious that he wants HIS BFF back in the side and both of them offered extensions too and won’t pass to a well placed, full of WC movement, space making and clever Torres even if he/s the ONLY option and dangerous to boot. Malouda’s misplaced personal lyalties cost us three points again today and now he hurts us every time he plays with Torres he has to either be sold or told or both(or get rid of DD to rid ourselves of the French speaking cabal at the club which insists on supporting a player, in DD, who’s lost a lot of his power, pace and general ability as well as, because he won’t get the extension of two years which would make him feel biger than the club.

I was, sadly, a little upset when I heard that Didier was happy to say he’d stay til summer(how will he ever cope on £160,000 a week!)but , actually, wasn’t HAPPY about it at all as he will sulk til June and only play in games where he scores early and the team’s set up only to serve his needs both tactically and mentally. He isn’t the future, palsya alot worse for the team than Torres and has a disruptive element supporting him in the squad that must be undermined and shipped out. Lamps, oddly, also finds himself rarely picking out torres for fear Torres may find the goals to make HIS place redundant shor sightedly ignoring the fact he coukld be supplying the bullets.

In short there’s way too little selflessness at the Bridge(Torres and Mata apart)and too many players wanting to turn back a clock that they failed to manage last term when they were younger. AVB failing for s second window to shift out enough of the disruptive elder statesmen who, mainly, refuse to pull together towards a new way of coping ith the rest of the younger squad members. AVB is also guilty of failing to have the balls to play Ryan Bertrand to offer Cole a much needed rest. Ashley’s now incapable of attacking or defending to anything near a normal Cole level and will only risk injuring himself if a game off cannot be organised soon-as form falls apart. Without his forward runs Mata is stuck wide too often for starters and Ash isn’t up to it at either end right now. Same was true of Raul, Lamps and Josh and now Josh has gone Lamps has got injured and Raul even safer in his knowledge he will almost alwayts play despite being the worst “creative” midfielder in the EPL this season. If AVB won’t trust the young back up there’s little to make those unde performing and npig headed “first teamers” inti even trying.

That’s why we get a laissez-faire performance from all but our young mids week in and week ou. It’s why JT and Ash are too tired and unrested and it’s why Lamps is both injured AND why he hasn’t bothered doing anything to make himself more of a team player to make his career last longer a la Bergkamp or Giggs or Barnes. He’s not using his brain and cannot any longer create AND score those latre run goals and settling for JUST the goals is killing us as a side, sadly.

We were terrible again today, DS was selfish, lazy and rusty while Torres was srtil one of the ones actually seen to be trying but ONLY home boy Mata managed anything lie=ke Chelsea quality throughout. We either get shot of a couple more and do it now or this malaise of “player kniws best” will ruin AVB’s rebuild for ever. Sell the oldies who won’t fall in line, even if we’re left short of bodies do it now and get in a player or two of Chelsea class regardless of cup tied status too. Getting fourth is paramount and the vitriaol within the camp needs pruning and taming and some penetration adding to help Mata and Danny and Torres.

Few bright lights today except I felt Norwich were pretty woeful for a home team ninth in the Prem but will get praise for playing it safe-they ought not when we’re there for the taking and I was let down by the total ambition drain they became and thought they might well defend deep but really set up for quick breaks but they just defended. SAdly, Chelsea didn’t do much of what I’d call real attacking either. Too slow in the build up, too low a block ourselves and one tired and one useless FB meant Mata and DS stuxk too wide all game and outr of harm’s way purely because our manager won’t trust a youth product for ONE game against average Prem sides. Ash needs a rest before we hurt him and AVB is bottling this massively.

any youngster he didn’t personally chase to play a single game in the league ever.. Had some other manaer bought Romeu and chased him we’d not see him either but Josh, Ryan, Hutch, Chalobah et al just won’t ever get their chance even when it’s been common sense to give either or both a game at times this season when Ash has been, like now, out of form and so tired he risks injury and when, game after game neither Raul nor Lamps even TRIES to create for our CF. Josh had a less settled and less creatuve midfield to break into at Chelsea than at Swansea where theirs WORKS. Why didn’t AVB give him a single, real league game, chance to start?

While he won’t we risk missing out and injuring great players.

but hasn’t he been excellent at CB this season, and if he’s really developing as a CB i would be reluctant to change that, unless im mistaken? Plus he won’t be ready for a couple seasons at the least im sure.

we did have opportunities to counter in this match. in fact there are chances counter in almost any match, whether it comes from high pressure or deep defending. either way, we have had no counter attack all season and it’s killing us

when sturridge was streaking down the right flank and looked like he was in position to play a cross, except he pulled it back onto his left? i mean, is his right foot THAT ineffective?

where it fell to his right foot, and he blazed it into Row Z?

How do you rate your central striker? what constitutes a good game from him? Being hesitant in the box and missing a 5fter can’t be considered a good all around performance. What makes you think it was bright?

….when other fans make fun of Torres I tell them to go to hell. But since he’s ours we can do it.

….sadly my ManU fan office boss expressed shock that I wasn’t upset by a draw with Norwich. I told him he was underestimating Norwich, overestimating Chelsea, and that since none of the top seven are in particularly good form dropping two points wasn’t the end of the world.