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Yes, it will end but over Xmas is the word time to have a bad spell. Come two weeks time we could just be off the relegation zone and out the FA cup.
Foot Long Hot Dog
Player Valuation: A packet of pork scratchings
It's the lack of effort, spirit and determination that makes the current performances hard to stomach. They're hardly behaving like they'd die in the trenches for the cause and when you hear the manager appearing to think that shambles yesterday was not far off the pace, it creates fume and frustration. It was starting to bubble at Goodison on Monday and yesterday won't have done anything to abate it.
Donald Twain
Vide cor meum
No one is saying anybody should accept mediocrity and true most of us have seen us is far worse predicaments than this! I can't accept people throwing in the towel regarding Martinez though as that's just idiotic. We've gone from putting up with Moyes for decades and terrified of change to behaving like spoilt brats and Tottenham ! Behave.
evertony
Player Valuation: £50m
I heard during the Krasnodar game that the main first team players are running on empty after the Europa campaign, the lack of rotation due to injuries, and the key injuries themselves....but, understandably, Martinez and Jones can't come out and say that's the problem as the fans would slaughter the lot of them as they expect professionals to be ultra-fit.
It could be bang on the numbers that....take Coleman and Baines. Top, top quality full-backs who bomb-on....but not the last 6-7 weeks. Mirallas is the one who can inject pace and bite, but his regular injuries are limiting it. McCarthy has been out for a couple of months with what was apparently a 'nothing' injury. Barkley has been inconsistent to say the least. Lukaku is either hot or cold with no in between.
Are they all suddenly rubbish players? No, there's a reason for the malaise, and that could very well be down to the above.
I'm no sports psychologist or specialist but I do reckon keeping up stellar performance athletically and skill-wise at the level they play is much, much harder than turning up half-cut for the Dog and Duck on a Sunday. Get a knock on a Sunday and irrespective you're playing the week after because nothing depends on it....professional sport can't work like that in my opinion. And, the level of wages has no bearing here,-it's about physicality and peak performance and sustaining it. Injuries to a professional athlete are a lot harder to deal with than injuries to you or I.
It could be bang on the numbers that....take Coleman and Baines. Top, top quality full-backs who bomb-on....but not the last 6-7 weeks. Mirallas is the one who can inject pace and bite, but his regular injuries are limiting it. McCarthy has been out for a couple of months with what was apparently a 'nothing' injury. Barkley has been inconsistent to say the least. Lukaku is either hot or cold with no in between.
Are they all suddenly rubbish players? No, there's a reason for the malaise, and that could very well be down to the above.
I'm no sports psychologist or specialist but I do reckon keeping up stellar performance athletically and skill-wise at the level they play is much, much harder than turning up half-cut for the Dog and Duck on a Sunday. Get a knock on a Sunday and irrespective you're playing the week after because nothing depends on it....professional sport can't work like that in my opinion. And, the level of wages has no bearing here,-it's about physicality and peak performance and sustaining it. Injuries to a professional athlete are a lot harder to deal with than injuries to you or I.
mrb85
Player Valuation: £35m
Total bollocks mate, the sort of attitude that prevails at Board level as well and which has turned us into the small-minded club we are now. Hope you're just as phlegmatic after we lose the next 3.
mrb85
Player Valuation: £35m
No group of players have played more than Chelsea's key players. Mourinho minimises his rotation. Explain to me then how they're not struggling. Tiredness, my arse. If there is a tiredness it's a mental thing, and it comes with losing matches and losing faith in a manager who shows no signs of seeing the root of the problem and fixing it and who keeps all 3 substitutes on the bench in the face of another abject performance.
1966efc
Player Valuation: £20m
He's been in a bubble for a lot longer than that. You get more good than bad with him but he just isn't top class.
Decent but not great. Too many kids & too many geriatrics.
Not going to happen.
Old men (in sports terms) take longer to recuperate and longer to heal.
Chelsea have one or two pensioners; we have a shedload. Like any other human being, R M makes mistakes. Can you think of any manager of any team who hasn't? If we get rid of a manager every time he falls short of our, frankly ridiculous, expectations, the revolving door will never slow down. Everyone is sick of hearing it but the root cause is the lack of money to buy and pay very good players who are at their peak.
We are heading that way with no change of the tactics in site.
Biggest worry is the clown never used any subs yesterday because he thought we were doing well
anton66
Player Valuation: £50m
Nor stoke home or Newcastle and Hull away as we've sold out
Donald Twain
Vide cor meum
Pack in calling our manager a clown for gods sake.
Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian
The Unobstructed View
Not bought my FA Cup ticket yet, will tomorrow like (hope I don't forget) if we play like yesterday though against West 'Am then they'll bully us and it'll be worse than the Wigan cup game.
mrb85
Player Valuation: £35m
'ridiculous expectations'? What, to beat Hull City at home, to win more than 1 in 3 games......yep, massive expectations them, cut it out Blues.
evertony
Player Valuation: £50m
Players lost faith in the manager, my arse.
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