Chelsea having their troubles

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Best of luck with that BT, even at 14/1 I'm not interested. Chelsea are far too short as well, but one bet I like is 3/1 HT/FT Draw/Chelsea. I can see us holding them first half but losing in the end, if I do have a bet that'll be the one.

Money is still going on an away win, I have this funny feeling in the old urinary tract!

[oldcolner]

Maybe Abramovic had that as well!

[thedonz]

Nothing wrong in wishful thinking guys and not only the Chelsea game. Taylor was all over the place in central defence in the first half of the friendly against Celta Viga. I have to disagree Sinkov, he has no ability to play in that position. Dyche was giving him game time only I hope.

[army88]

Nothing wrong in wishful thinking guys and not only the Chelsea game. Taylor was all over the place in central defence in the first half of the friendly against Celta Viga. I have to disagree Sinkov, he has no ability to play in that position. Dyche was giving him game time only I hope.

Much better at L back IMO anyway ---- no right foot except for standing on.

Looks decent at full back though - I'd keep him well away from centre half.

[sinkov]

Nothing wrong in wishful thinking guys and not only the Chelsea game. Taylor was all over the place in central defence in the first half of the friendly against Celta Viga. I have to disagree Sinkov, he has no ability to play in that position. Dyche was giving him game time only I hope.

We're not disagreeing donz, it appears from what he says that Dyche thinks he's good enough to provide back up at CB. I'm like you, I'm not convinced, I think the word I used to describe his first half against Vigo was 'flakey'. Settling for Long and Taylor as cover smacks to me of complacency, not a trait I'd normally associate with Dyche. It's worrying, complacency at this level will have you relegated for sure, as we found out when we tried to go a full season with just Marney and Jones as CMs.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Keane and Mee played virtually two full seasons and barely missed a game. SD does not allow yellow cards or red cards so suspensions are not a big issue.

The Liquid Nitrogen blast and new Hydrotherapy Pools suggest injuries will be kept to a minimum. In reality three centre backs should be enough but we already have four without using Taylor or Ward.

Your starter for ten and no conferring...

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[In Dyche We Trust]

no chance of a win unless cahill and cortois gift us a couple of early goals- best hope is a 1-1 draw

[oldcolner]

Another article on Chelseas problems

Conte can call upon just 13 players with PL experience against Burnley on Saturday (though Morata and Rudiger will provide additional experienced options.)

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/club/...-league-season

[oldcolner]

no chance of a win unless cahill and cortois gift us a couple of early goals- best hope is a 1-1 draw

Best hope for me is a 2-0 win, but I expect a 2-0 loss as Chelsea haven't lost an opening game of the season for many years. However Conte is under some stress with conflict with Costa, the Board over sales and lack of signings and has a limited pool of players with some expensive new signings to fit in and if things do start to go wrong maybe we can nick it like we did to Liverpool.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

£25 placed at 14-1 Burnley win.