Ser Barristan Selmy

A team could score 100 goals against a crap team, then fail to score in the rest of the games, and finish as the top scorers. The best attack last season was Celtic, the league champions, who embarrassed us repeatedly. Those of us who watched the games last season are more than aware of how painful we were to watch with our pedestrian, lacklustre forward play.

Lol GS you actually go to the games too right? You honestly watched that shit last season and thought we were anything other than completely hopeless in attack last season? Jesus man.

Best in attack yet finished third. Yeah, hard to take you seriously.

At the end of the day, we were atrocious all over the park last season.

I'm not sure I would read anything into that. Aberdeen are still pish and Burnley are a mediocre side, regardless of last year's EPL position. If Aberdeen played any half decent foreign side last night, they would have been dealt with swiftly.

Really? It's the other end of the park I'm concerned about. We now have a good keeper and a solid CB partnership. In attack we're still really poor.

To be honest, it is only the defence that has improved significantly. Going forward we are still massively lacking in quality. And regardless of what the stats say, we were extremely poor going forward last season. A good attacking Rangers side does not finish below Aberdeen in the league.

He scored 12 league goals last season so let's not get carried away with how well he performed. We also know full well by now that scoring goals for non old firm teams is a completely different kettle of fish. We had four years to assess him and he proved he wasn't good enough.

How many times have we been stung by this? Players at diddy Scottish sides who look like world beaters, then are beyond dreadful when we sign him? We signed Lafferty for £4m, he played for us for four years and scored 38 goals. He's nowhere near good enough and he never will be. I could maybe understand this if we were awash with decent strikers and he was going to be 4th or 5th choice AND if he was free. But this isn't the case.

We're barking mad to be wasting any more money on Lafferty. Was £4 million not enough? Since leaving us 6 years ago he's scored a grand total of 44 goals. We badly need a 25-30 goal a season striker and Lafferty isn't that.

It’s not excellent. We should be beating dead beats like this by cricket scores, no matter how pish we are.

I knew we would win tonight. Not because I think we’re any good, but because it would be impossible not to against such trash opposition.

I’m saying that, and I’m sorry, but what an absolutely garbage XI we have there.

Updated my prediction to an away win...if we can’t beat utter shite like this we should chuck it

Craig - as you know I will defend an argument until the cows come home. But I have just moved country, I'm not sober and you're actually one of my favourite posters on here. In short, I don't really care anymore. God Bless. I think this is the first time I have ever walked away from an argument.

I don't find his articles very insightful. We've been murder going forward for years.

I am 100% correct here ?.

Nope, you're wrong. Cheers.

If he goes another billionaire will quickly snap them up.

My concern isn't his age, just his lack of success at such an age. An elite club like Chelsea should be challenging for the title and CL every season. To appoint an experienced manager with no trophies seems a bit odd. That said, I don't necessarily think it's a poor appointment. He plays the type of football I like which is a good start.

He won't be around very long so it seems pointless going into much detail about him. After all the managerial changes it's a bit odd Chelsea have ended up with an almost 60 year old who has never won a trophy. I think above all else, Chelsea finished 5th last season because they have the 5th best squad. Take Hazard out the side and you're looking at a pretty mediocre team. The side was poor defensively last season, lacked quality in the middle of the park and offers little in the final third aside from Hazard. Chelsea need to be looking longer term and building something. They're a mess.

Shows just how piss poor this league is that a first team starter for the second top side couldn't get a better move than the National League.

At the moment we're seeing much of the same issues we've previously been blighted with: Extremely poor football with no discernible style. Embarrassing results and final league position. Lack of any clear vision or direction. Hopefully this is changing now. A squad worth peanuts with a lack of noticeable player development Poor signings often needing paid off - no profit made. A revolving door usually resulting in constant losses. Lack of youth players being integrated into first team And what exactly is the debt at now?

I don't remember you saying this after each game in the last 2 seasons where you would blame referee conspiracies and bad luck for all the points we kept dropping.

Finishing below Aberdeen in the league is complete failure.