I doubt they are a Rovers fan otherwise surely they would have a slither of consideration for how inconvenienced we have been.

They will be fuming. Surely between Ledley King, Robbie Keane and Les Ferdinand. In all seriousness, would be a shit appointment.

Kaminski is our best keeper even if it is understandable that Pears has the gloves at the moment. Pears is a solid back up but wouldnt generate much money. Keep them both, 100%. If Pears really wants out, then sign an experienced number 2 and reluctantly sell. No having kids as the number 2.

I am sure we will get the "its not a 3pm game anymore" rubbish ASAP but this is a joke. 1 Saturday 3pm game over the course of (it wil be) 9 months. Not even considering that we are just going for the play offs, not automatic, for Sky to show such disregard to any individual set of fans by selecting any team so much is a farce. Fuck off Sky.

I have no idea how you have come to the conclusion that the overall Chelsea fans are happy to see Lampard back, where is this from? This knows the club nonsense baffles me. Firstly, it was owned by someone totally different when he was there. But what makes Chelsea unqiue to the point that "knowing the club" becomes more important than managerial competence of which he hasnt shown any? What does "knows the club" even mean in terms of usefulness as a football manager? Out of interest, say Jon Dahl Tomasson leaves for Leicester tomorrow. Not saying he will, but if. Would you be happy if we got someone like David Dunn or Tim Sherwood on an interim basis? 2 huge names as players who achieved things, but horrendous managers. I get that it is temporary (talk of him being able to get such a Premier League job off the back of a good month upcoming despite a terrible CV over 3 jobs is hilarious) but a manager as poor as Lampard cannot be the best bet even if it is just a stop gap until better managers become available in the summer. Potter is actually a decent manager, he would be better for this month. Failing that, they could get a manager with a better record even on a temporary basis. Even Big Sam would be a better choice. I can't figure out why you defend Lampard in spite of his managerial record. Either you must be biased having admired him as a player, or it is just because he is English. My only logical conclusions.

This "knowing the club" thing is a line often trotted out but its never particularly logical. Henning Berg knows our club. Colin Hendry knows our club. David Dunn knows our club. You wouldn't take any of them here if Tomasson left. You would naturally prioritise someone who is good at managing a football club and not someone who "knows the club." You say get the fans onside but why do you think that the Chelsea fans who have been used to success be content with a manager coming in even short term who was sacked within the last couple of years, has since been sacked by Everton for poor performance and has never improved a club simply because he was a great player for them?

You are sticking to defending Lampard even now? Knows the club? The same club he was sacked at due to poor performance? Is a fan favourite, why does that matter? Why not get Gianfranco Zola, John Terry or Dennis Wise if that is the case? Did you read the quotes from Michael Keane, that Lampard wouldn't even tell Keane how he could improve, instead saying that he should know what he is doing by now? Proper man management. Lampard is not a very good manager, that is the top and bottom of it and yet still his former playing career seemingly is working wonders with a naive owner desperate to appease the fans in a misguided way. Even keeping Potter until the summer would have been wiser than this.

He is injured so I suspect he means in terms of recovery.

This would be mind blowing. Horrendous idea. There was a quote the other day suggesting that Michael Keane asked him how he could improve and Lampard said he should know by now.

Do you work for the EFL?

Good that the removal of the 3pm blackout has been ignored for now but "what they know and trust" in Sky means a total lack of consideration and care for match going fans.

4.5k tickets given. Do we think we will sell out before open sale at £28 a ticket? We don't usually to be fair but away following have been strong lately.

Again, talk about opinions on where you think they are best, fine. Ruling it out because Brereton "doesn't want to" only to move Dolan there instead, clearly a flawed way of thinking to try and justify your opinion by making others' seem a non-starter.

Whilst there may well be some truth in regards to Wharton's application in training or a personal issue, I do think this rumour has snowballed to the point where it is seen almost as factual. None of us know. Tomasson is definitely doing a good job but like anyone, his judgement is not perfect. He decided to play Clinton Mola over Scott Wharton against Burnley. He has played Jack Vale in games despite never having looked capable. He went through a spell of playing Hedges as a right wing back. Maybe he just rates Morton higher than Wharton. Maybe that is partly down to feeling that Morton is more durable in terms of playing multiple games for 90 minutes in quick succession. I rate Wharton higher than Morton, most of us do, maybe there isn't that much more to it than Tomasson thinking otherwise.

Not the point I was making/debating against.

You also said that Brereton doesn't want to play up front and potentially advocated Dolan there instead so I just pointed out how that was not a valid point when they have both said the same thing basically.

Unsure if you watched the same games but when he played he was not physically outfought, he was surprisingly tenacious. The only question mark would be stamina across 90 minutes as he more often than not was subbed off.

Im not sure how Rankin Costello would be as a central midfielder anyway to be fair.

I very much doubt that Morton will come permanently, Liverpool would probably value him above our meagre budget anyway.

Abused 😂

Minimal in a deeper midfield 2 in the first team then.

I still think we would be taking something away from our play to move Rankin Costello. He gives us something from there that nobody else does.

Based on my opinion, he didn't warrant questions about his future because even in the bad spells our league position was good. A minority thought otherwise as you said though, but I was talking specifically to what I thought, even though I admittedly did have niggling doubts at times.

But with JDT, results have never dropped to a level whereby you question things to the point of changing him. Even in poor runs of form which of course happen to everyone, we always maintained a decent position in the table. Chelsea have now dropped into the bottom half and it is difficult to really see what he is trying to do aside from constant changing the team in the hope that something works out.

Plans are all well and good but you should only stick to them if they show signs of progressing, and seemingly this one didn't, hence the change.