Chelsea v Aston Villa Pre-Match Thread

[Villa in Denmark]

A 1-2 win. Gestede and Ayew. Mourinho to be rather cross afterwards.

Can you tell us which happy pills your psychiatrist is prescribing? There's a few of us that could do with some of whatever you're on.

[Villa in Denmark]

i think it will be a goal crazy game and I think Chelsea will win 8-5

No I think it could be 8-7. We'll be winning 6-7 as the match goes to injury time. They will equalise after a disputed corner floats over and Terry holds down Guzan whilst Ivanovic punches the ball into the net. It's 7-7 at the end of 7 minutes of added time however ref plays on a further 2 minutes and awards them a penalty when Terry slips and falls in the Chelsea area and sends off Guzan for deceitful play for being within 75 yards of Terry making him slip. Bunn saves 5 penalty attempts. Retakes ordered each time Bunn moved from a stationary position. After the fifth failed attempt ref gives him the second yellow and Jack Grealish has to go in goal. Jack saves the first attempt by punching the ball out but it hits the Referee and bounces back into the net. Mourinho misses all this as he went to phone his wife at 6-7!

Not that I am bored!

Adjusted to make it more realistic.

[Clampy]

A 1-2 win. Gestede and Ayew. Mourinho to be rather cross afterwards.

Can you tell us which happy pills your psychiatrist is prescribing? There's a few of us that could do with some of whatever you're on.

I'm being optimistic. It makes a welcome change from people on here falling over themselves to find new ways of putting Sherwood and the Club down.

[Toronto Villa]

A 1-2 win. Gestede and Ayew. Mourinho to be rather cross afterwards.

Can you tell us which happy pills your psychiatrist is prescribing? There's a few of us that could do with some of whatever you're on.

I'm being optimistic. It makes a welcome change from people on here falling over themselves to find new ways of putting Sherwood and the Club down.

There's nothing at all wrong in being optimistic and wanting to give the manager an opportunity to correct the situation. In fact as much as I don't think he will be able to and we need to replace him I hope that I am completely and utterly wrong. That we beat Chelsea and come out of this tailspin a much better club and Sherwood a much better manager. I just don't see it though.

[Villa in Denmark]

That's exactly where I am TV.

Unfortunately wishing, hoping, praying or whatever that he's going to turn this around doesn't make it any more probable.

We're on the sort of run Lambert used to embark on from around this point of the season and have people questioning his future.
Sherwood's done it far earlier in the season from a much lower base.

[manic-road]

2-0 Home win 

[ciggiesnbeer]

Same, I would be delighted if Sherwood turns it all around. I don't dislike him, my patience is just gone though. The past few years have seen to that. We just need to stop being relegation battlers and we should be ruthless with managers until that happens. Its not personal its just firing an employee who demonstrably cannot do the job. I hope he does but so far he is not. I do not want us to dither with the axe again. We should act like the big club we are. Managers need to meet our standards or go. Right now Sherwood is not meeting standards. Sorry but its true.

[villadelph]

We will not get anything from this game. I don't even want to predict a score because I think it will be considerably lopsided.

[Vegas]

my patience is just gone though. The past few years have seen to that. We just need to stop being relegation battlers and we should be ruthless with managers until that happens. Its not personal its just firing an employee who demonstrably cannot do the job. I hope he does but so far he is not.

Patience gone after 8 games? No organisation I know of would "just fire an employee" after 6 months, when they were pretty successful in the first four of those months.  I would give him more time still.

edit: think we'll go close on Saturday, draw or narrow defeat.

[Witton Warrior]

my patience is just gone though. The past few years have seen to that. We just need to stop being relegation battlers and we should be ruthless with managers until that happens. Its not personal its just firing an employee who demonstrably cannot do the job. I hope he does but so far he is not.

Patience gone after 8 games? No organisation I know of would "just fire an employee" after 6 months, when they were pretty successful in the first four of those months.  I would give him more time still.

edit: think we'll go close on Saturday, draw or narrow defeat.

I think the patience thing stretches back to the end of last season as well when we just scraped safety and got humiliated in the Cup Final. There was an initial burst of energy and application but that seemed to diminish rapidly and has been replaced with lethargy and confusion. I haven't run out of patience I'm plain terrified!

[McGraths Dry Cleaning]

Everyone assumes Chelsea will click in this game and thrash us. Maybe this is the game that we click. If I was Sherwood, the management team and the players I would be thinking what a great opportunity to get our season underway and ram all the criticism back down everyone's throats. 1-0 Villa.

[Ads]

Its important that we do not concede an early goal and allow them to settle. We tended to start well under Sherwood last season and come out at a good tempo. We need some more of that here, as if we start to press them and carve out a few early chances we maybe able to create a "oh not a bloody again" feeling in the mind of Chelsea.

[Richard E]

Its important that we do not concede an early goal and allow them to settle. We tended to start well under Sherwood last season and come out at a good tempo. We need some more of that here, as if we start to press them and carve out a few early chances we maybe able to create a "oh not a bloody again" feeling in the mind of Chelsea.

In other words what we should have done at Anfield and didn't.

[Ads]

The fast start is what we should be aiming for in every game. The first goal is massive in this league.

[Dr Butler]

if Carlsberg did Saturdays...


a Villa win and a Ellis handshake for Roman to help get Moaninho sacked straight after the game....again.... would be nice 

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