Chelsea v Everton. 11th Feb at 19.45.

[Furey1878]

How Barry keeps his place after his recent displays is shocking!!

McCarthy's only just come back from injury and Gibson is made of Weatabix. I'll slate Martinez for leaving Barry in the side if he does so when McCarthy is 100%.

 

[bluemangroup]

Not really. He doesn't have any backbone. At all.

Its very easy to tell him how to do it from behind a screen mate.

 

[meagher94]

The ONLY way this can be a good decision is if Howard has the game of his life and keeps a clean sheet.

I just don't see the point in that decision tbh. He knows he's gonna take a crap load of stick from the fans if we concede a few tonight.

 

[tellmema]

Just changed my vote from draw to loss.... Says it all really. Looking forward to some humble pie. Here's hoping.

 

[welshtoffee]

Absolute shithouse of a manager, get back to Spain you clown.

 

[Carlito]

The Barry situation is getting out of hand.

Doing all he can to shoehorn Naismith into the team is just funny. He must be phenomenal in training.

 

[Dario Terracotta]

If I was Joel I'd stick a transfer request in,he's got no chance at this club unfortunately IMHO.

 

[riddick]

What bullshit. Dropping Joel, playing Barkley AND Naismith ffs. Because it's BOUND to work in it's 20th iteration..

 

[blue61]

Maybe he's brought Howard back in because he scored the winner in this fixture last season, lucky omen and all that.

 

[mawders]

Howard, Coleman, Stones, Jagielka, Oviedo, Besic, Barry, Lennon, Naismith, Barkley, Lukaku

Subs: Robles, Gibson, Kone, Mirallas, McCarthy, Garbutt, Alcaraz.

 

[R.Reddington]

Don't really see how that's a bad team?

Yeah I would have liked to have seen Robles continue to play, but it's far from a bad line up?

Some people are moaning about it for the sake of it...

 

[meagher94]

Not really. He doesn't have any backbone. At all.

I don't agree with Robles being dropped, but not sure how this shows he has no backbone?

If anything it shows he HAS a backbone, no? He's taking a massive risk by doing this and knows the fans don't agree with it, so he's obviously willing to take the added heat if it doesn't pay off.

 

[Furey1878]

What bullshit. Dropping Joel, playing Barkley AND Naismith ffs. Because it's BOUND to work in it's 20th iteration..

To be fair if we're playing 4-3-3, then both Barkley and Naismith will be in natural positions.

If we're playing 4-2-3-1 with one of them on the left then by all means fume away.

 

[eurosrees]

If your keeper keeps 3 clean sheets on the bounce, surely even a resurgent Pat Jennings doesn't just walk back in if available? Let alone has been Howard who doesn't even make saves any more. Such a weird thing to do.

Also towards the end of the derby, there seemed to be some shape to the team for the first time in absolute ages, this line up screams of imbalance again.

Ah well, prove us all wrong Bobby

 

[Donald Twain]

Blimey ! Some unhappy folks on here.