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[Football] Potter at Chelsea

Potter at Chelsea

  • I want him to fail

    Votes: 346 49.6%
  • I want him to succeed

    Votes: 61 8.7%
  • He's gone. I'm indifferent. Graham who?

    Votes: 291 41.7%

  • Total voters
    698

ManOfSussex

We wunt be druv
Apr 11, 2016
13,762
Rape of Hastings, Sussex
Before covid the team wasn’t playing well and it was all going down hill rather rapidly, the drop looked likely at that point. We ended up with two more points I think than CH managed in his first season.
It was actually just 1 point better than CH managed in his first season and the last game prior to Covid, a goalless draw away at Wolves, was the 10th game in a row we didn't win.
 


Pavilionaire

Members
Jul 7, 2003
29,612
After dropping 2 more points the best they can hope for now is 6th. And we're 4 points above, 2 games in hand and a +14 goal difference, while Liverpool can now focus on the Prem.
 


jcdenton08

PROD with the PROD
Oct 17, 2008
7,077
After those years of winning silverware who’d be a Chelsea fan? Today’s result must be a new low ebb. 😂
They are of course about to play in a Champions League quarter final against Real Madrid, and we respectively are excited about playing a team from the fourth division in the FA Cup. They also won the competition in 2021, whereas the biggest competition we’ve ever won was the England Supercup in the 1910/11 season.

Not meaning to piss on your cornflakes but a sense of perspective is needed here…
 

5Ways Gull

È quello che è
Feb 2, 2009
527
Fiveways, Brighton
They are of course about to play in a Champions League quarter final against Real Madrid, and we respectively are excited about playing a team from the fourth division in the FA Cup. They also won the competition in 2021, whereas the biggest competition we’ve ever won was the England Supercup in the 1910/11 season.

Not meaning to piss on your cornflakes but a sense of perspective is needed here…
I will never forget where I was and what I was doing when our win against Plymouth was announced as getting us promoted in 2001. I remember thinking how supporters of the "big" clubs could ever get the level of joy I was experiencing following our promotion from the 4th tier, after everything we had been through. Everything is relative, supporting teams like Chelsea is easy.

PS I still love Micky Adams!
 

wolfie

Members
Jul 19, 2003
1,611
Warwickshire
I will never forget where I was and what I was doing when our win against Plymouth was announced as getting us promoted in 2001. I remember thinking how supporters of the "big" clubs could ever get the level of joy I was experiencing following our promotion from the 4th tier, after everything we had been through. Everything is relative, supporting teams like Chelsea is easy.

PS I still love Micky Adams!
Ditto how I felt as a 15 year old on 26 April 1965, when we beat Darlington 3-1 in front of 31,000 at the Goldstone to win Div 4.
 


bluenitsuj

Listen to me!!!
Feb 26, 2011
3,822
Willingdon
They are of course about to play in a Champions League quarter final against Real Madrid, and we respectively are excited about playing a team from the fourth division in the FA Cup. They also won the competition in 2021, whereas the biggest competition we’ve ever won was the England Supercup in the 1910/11 season.

Not meaning to piss on your cornflakes but a sense of perspective is needed here…
We haven't spent half a billion on players in the last 2 transfer Windows. Its all relative.
 
May 1, 2016
10,846
Oxton, Birkenhead
I will never forget where I was and what I was doing when our win against Plymouth was announced as getting us promoted in 2001. I remember thinking how supporters of the "big" clubs could ever get the level of joy I was experiencing following our promotion from the 4th tier, after everything we had been through. Everything is relative, supporting teams like Chelsea is easy.

PS I still love Micky Adams!
I think our view of other clubs is influenced by the era in which we were youngsters/teenagers. On that basis (late 70s/early 80s) I still see Chelsea as a distinctly average club as prone to be in div 2 as div 1. Not helped by Stamford Bridge which is an average ground that was a lot more impressive when it was a dump with a running track.
 

nickjhs

Members
Apr 9, 2017
981
Ballarat, Australia
The press only chose to look at the last 15-16 games of his career with us, describing his whole tenure as fantastic and what a great job he had done. A win percentage of 31% doesn't suggest this. He was wildly inconsistent. One minute looking like world beaters, next minute didn't know where and when the next point or goal was coming from.
See this attitude annoyed me at the time and it annoys me now. Sure his first seasons in charge (looking purely at the points earned and goals scored) was not much different to CH, but that is where the comparison ended. From the very start we looked like a team who wanted to win, who could win, who belonged in the division rather than a bunch of squatters desperately defending their tenure. TB saw it pretty much straight away which is why he extended the contract after a few games. It takes time to change and rebuild a squad and he did this on a small budget in what I feel was a bloody short amount of time. So I thank him for his work, have disdain for how he left, and am really glad RDZ was scouted and hired and has been able to build on what he inherited.
 

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