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Who then beat us.

Oh please....not that old chestnut....." we should have had two penalties " etc. Its masking a desperately poor defensive performance, that was only kept in check by some superb saves from Ryan. Chelsea could have scored 6 or 7.

It helps to defend properly as well. We have centre backs playing like headless chickens and yesterday was a complete shambles. All discipline seems to have gone out the window, together with our GD. If we were tight at the back, I would hold out some hope but the signs are not good.

Ok.....I am gonna give it a go. We have 14 games left, of which 5 are against the big six. So that is zero points. Of the remaining nine games, we have Saints, Stoke, Everton, Palace and Burnley away. Two draws from those games will be realistic. At home we have West Ham, Swansea, Huddersfield...

Aaah....the tactics have proved so successful!

For weeks now, fans have been concentrating on other results and overlooking our terminal slide down the table. A comfortable gap has narrowed to one point and an inferior GD. Time to face up to reality.

So do I but the shambles of our defence yesterday suggests that we have problems at both ends and that spells big trouble. We spent weeks and weeks ' preserving ' our goal difference, with tight, negative displays under the impression that it could benefit us in the long run. Now it is the 4th...

We will stay loyal to CH and we will never know whether a change would have made a difference.

Loyalty counts for nothing, PL survival is everything to the owners. They are pulling the trigger before it gets even worse. New manager and one win can make all the difference. Still 42 points to play for and other teams sliding.

I am sure Smug Eddie will lose no sleep in being dumped out of the Cup. Likewise CH would have been more than happy to have no Cup distraction. As for Saturday, anyone who was at West Brom will know that a repeat of that level of performance and Conte could field his youth team against us and win.

Players have been allowed to perfect the art of subtly bringing themselves down, whilst giving the impression that the defender/goalkeeper has brought them down. Its all done at high speed and to the naked eye is nigh on impossible to differentiate between. We have all been conned into believing...

24k full houses in the PL.....14k ish in the Championship....not sure our gates would fall by 40% if we were relegated. Last night was dire ( 4986 ) and indicative of a fan base disgruntled with their team/manager.

In the away end on Saturday I couldn't help but notice the massive picture of him, in the stand to our right. I was thinking about him, his pace and power and what he brought to a side and how much a centre forward like that would be worth today. ( Think of Lukaku, but better ) And now I have...

The game plan was to get a top class infrastructure in place, before possible promotion to the PL, which, in theory, would give us a better chance of attracting higher calibre players to the club. In truth, money counts for eveything and all the swanky facilities in the world count for nothing...

Anyone who was at the Hawthorns will find it very hard to believe that even a below par Chelsea won't turn us over. They know our frailty. Alonso scored from a near post corner at the Bridge and they will play on our inability to pick men up in the air ( cue....Morata promptly played back into...

...and then again.....

It was clear that he was mouthing...." have you dropped one ".....I fully sympathise if Bong let a nasty one go and Rodriguez met it head on.

No point in giving them to us....we would give them away again.

Dunk always gets away with it. Fans seem to ignore him charging around the penalty area like a headless chicken. Failing to pick up markers and regularly getting caught out of position. Both centre backs were a shambles yesterday but Duffy seems the target for all the flak.