Holden McGroin

If Mancini refrains from playing 3 DMs then they might well win the league this year.

Apparently he has offered his resignation - which was rejected. Thats from twitter. Edit: Henry Winter said the rumour has been denied. Still, all is not well at Chelski at the moment.

Watched first one earlier. Looks really good. I keep expecting Andrew Lincoln to break into English though.

Gavin Harris wishes he had Andy Carroll's playboy skills.

Williams and Collo need a rest. Im not sure thats entirely true. Its only 1 bad game. Colo will get an enforced rest anyway.

Yes

Difficult one. If he has earned enough money (which he clearly has) then wanting to play football might be top of his agenda. Not sure what i'd do under the circumstances. It depends on his goals tbh and whether he has half given up on football.

Regular first team football ?

Boa Morte must be up there as the shittest player in the PL.

Things could be worse We could be West Ham. They look terrible.

Just looked liked they ran into each other from my view although I didnt see the replay.

Terry will be out for a while, Alex is due an op on thursday, Essien will be serving the last game of suspension v us (I think). Lampard is due back imminently. Drogba will probably be over his sickness by then as well

While thats true, what the table doesnt show is that we have had many of the so called "easy" games and home and yet have to play many of the harder games. We've also played Man U, Man City, Arsenal away though. Other than the top 4-5 we can expect to take points from anyone. We MUST strengthen in January though. A pacey striker to play next to/just behind Carroll is a must. Completely agree with you ending statement. that is a must. But, our next 3 home games? Chelsea, Liverpool and Man City. Makes it absolutely vital to get maximum points from West Brom and Birmingham away in between those. Judging by this season we are more likely to pick up points v the big teams that the West Brom & Brum !!

Williamson has been iffy at times tbf. He's weak as water for the size of him. The other two have been excellent on the whole but I wouldn't mind seeing Campbell at CB. He'll get his chance v Chelsea. Chelsea have lost 3 out of 4 apparently. Surely that cant go on.

While thats true, what the table doesnt show is that we have had many of the so called "easy" games and home and yet have to play many of the harder games. We've also played Man U, Man City, Arsenal away though. Other than the top 4-5 we can expect to take points from anyone. We MUST strengthen in January though. A pacey striker to play next to/just behind Carroll is a must.

No-one is going to buy him on the wages he is on now. The only way he'll go is if (a) someone wants him ( he'll take the pay cut to play regular football. He has another 18 months on his contract as well.

He has only had 1 bad game in otherwise an immaculate season. Very harsh.

There is going to be a massive over reaction to this but we have to look at the bigger picture. At the start of the season if someone told me we'd be 9th after 14 games I would have been fucking ecstatic.

I suspect we were over confident going into this. The amount of time we got caught at the back was scary. To be fair to Coyle and Bolton though I reckoned they knew we'd try this.

At least 2 absolute gifts and 1 penalty that never was. Poor performance but not a 4 goal deficit for me.

I missed the williamson incident. Why should he be getting banned?

Colo has been fucking dreadful today.

We dont have the personnel to fix it tbh.

Right, toys can come out of the pram now.

Toys coming out of the pram already. 1 goal and we'll be back in it. Bar the 2 goals (which were fucking awful schoolboy defending) they haven't damaged us much.