Time to Face FACTS: Have your Say!

My sig added, well done mate! Now maybe we should start one against the FA.

The tea lady would do batter than Tubby. Sorry to be so flippant, but like many others, I am getting a little fed up with the shananigans surrounding my beloved Club at the moment.

Well let me offer a dissenting voice here (and i think the voice of reason). If Rafa must go at least wait till the end of the season. Rest assured releasing Rafa now will do us absolutely no good. Can you imagine our young players state of mind as it is..in one season they have had to learn two different sets of systems, values and football philosophies..and you now want to bring in a third person at this business end of the season...that is a recipe for disaster. The only frame of reference i can offer to show you how bad this could go is to look at where Inter ended up when they changed coaches thrice in one season just 1.5yrs ago..It did not go well. The best thing the board could have done to help our team now would have been to recall some loanees to inject some much needed fresh air into the squad (like Josh, KDB and Lukaku) and then got one or two key transfers in to address obvious areas of weakness in the squad while improving our squad depth. It does not appear any of these will be done. To go after Rafa as the solution to our problems is just to seek a convinient scape goat the same way Roman and the board did with RdM..i would be shocked if we got any quality experienced coach to take the job with such ill timing and then we will end up with having to maybe promote one of the youth coaches (maybe Adi) to interim...we all know how interims fare under Roman. Everyone out there will give Rafa the benefit of the doubt knowing our checkered history with firing managers on a whim and he will get a new job and move on. Lets not mention that sacking Rafa prematurely will also further poison the coaching waters for us when we go searching in the summer. It will make getting any quality coach all the more difficult..have we learnt nothing from the way the Guardiola debacle ended? For once Roman and his Amigos need to get a clue and stop repeating the same tired knee Jerk response actually expecting a different result..some people call that practice lunacy.

what about Jupp Heynckes (just age factor) or Rijkaard in the summer

@GabeU...there is nothing absolutely nothing that points to the fact that if rafa stays we will make top 4...evidence since he took over points to that fact...he has emotions investments in our clubs...the results dont move him..good or bad...all he says every single time is we are scoring more and conceding less...the guy is an absolute joke!!...I know that signing the petition wont achieve much as I honestly do think he will be sacked until the end of the season (Roman must be feeling kinda embarassed now i think..and he wont wanta look like a total jerk...the season is already messed up)...but then signing the petition sure made me feel better as a fan....Tubby(ish) is rubbish!!

so many typos...***i hohestly do NOT think he will be sacked until the end of the season..

denverblue Heynckes will retire in the summer. thats why bayern went for guardiola

@Zola...sooooo funny...looooool.....@mq=rotwyler...that will be some scene!!!!....ROTFLMAO.......

To me i think the link is rubbish.what will it achive,nothing,.Rafa has won us big games and the team is playing well,what are those fickle funs want.we have small squad but are trying.some are not good even on bench.even fergie plus the fa will win nothing with that squad.spare us the crap next time editor.

cfc funs are too expectant and big mouth who think club like cfc can have any manager.rdm luck took him nowhere.looks as he struggles to get job of cfc class.know it in ur head rafa is at par with the mou ancelloti sepp klopp etc.but those u name will never take us even top ten.

Anelka just agreed on a six 6months deal with Juve till the end of the season with an option of additional 12 months....what are we doing?

I'll support this on one condition, if we have an ideal replacement that is better than him, how are we sure that who would replace him is not more stupid than rafa? Then secondly I'll love it if we are appointing adi viveash as temporary manager, I am more comfy with that man than rafa

I think it's best to let Rafa remain till end of season, then we'll have enough time to get a good coach.... we shouldn't fall into the same pit twice and sacking Rafa now will only suggest we've not learnt from our mistakes....

@mzee69 . The only people calling name's here is you . Have some manners kid

I really dislike Benitez, but that doesn't mean that I want even more instability for our club. We need a couple of more reinforcements in key areas - not another sacking of the coach. I think Benitez should leave, but at season's end. Not anytime sooner.

We are stuck with beniez 'til the end of the season , shut up and get on with it.

no matter how much we sign loads of petitions (i did sign it to trigger the feel good factor), We are stuck with tubby till the end of the season....fact!...Roman wont wanta appear stupid so I dont think Rafa will be sacked...but like i said earlier, I see it (singing petitions or what ever action) as my little way of making the club know that we do not want rafa beyond the end of the season...they need to know so we can start making plans early....the team has got my unwavering support through thick and thin...with prayers, we'll make top 3....then I can easily see Rafa off to spain or whereever to resume spanish waiting duties...while we move on as a club...freaking proud man...if only he had taken half a minute to apologize to the fans when he resumed here...things could have happened differently...he should continue in his ways...May 2013 aint far...

@layorh i understand where you are coming from and i feel you. For me now the question is what is the greater evil? what will harm our boys more? I am certain another mid season sacking will. A time comes when this constant merry go round sacking suggests to the players that they are not good enough and that they are the ones getting their managers sacked. These are mostly young men and boys..we have very few battle tested veterans left in the sqaud...Sacking Rafa prematurely has little chance of helping them but a great chance of further denting their already severely shaken self confidence. The thing the board should be doing is adding to their ranks to improve depth and provide more numbers to shoulder the burden but as the end of January comes rapidly it is almost like our board is on vacation..the transfer trail is stone cold for us and they have already made it clear they are not recalling any of our on loan players. Truth be told with or without Rafa our chances of a top 3 or 4 finish are very precarious..i just feel the chances are significantly better with a modicum of stability at manager for the next few critical months of the business end of the season.

@ Pila12. Real Madrid fans will be saying exactly the same thing about our most revered Mou. Mou with better squad and depth than CFC is still 15 points behind Barca, does that make him a ***** coach?

@GabeU...nice tots...like I said no matter what even the most passionate of fans do , rafa wont get the sack....for a lot of reasons... but then I do hope that the hierachy at the club do know that while the bulk of the fans to love the owner and the team wholeheartedly...most (including me) cant stand rafa in the dug out beyond the end of the seaason....letting him continue beyond the end of this season will only increase the unrest at the club...which is the exact opposite of what we need right now!..the team needs far more support than previously bcos we ve got a young talented bunch who need our care to toughen up to the realities of playing at chelsea and BPL...when the team stumbles, its our care that should lift the spirit of the entire team till the boys reach them didi, JT and Lamps levels in terms of mentality...come end of season...Tubby should just leave quitely without even saying good bye something is not right with that man...if he stays then we would have wasted 25m on Oscar, and most worrying, we'll have an indignant coach at the helm who does not give a hoot about results...bcos in his heart its just a job..he has zero connections with anything chelsea...his heart is still probably red!!!...I am sure this is a phase for the club that will pass soon...and if we set out early, I am sure we'll still get a decent coach...it cant be that bad just yet...maybe Mou OR someone else...but definitely not the FSW....and as per our january transfers..what can I say?...Lord have mercy!!!!......looking on till thursday.

This is really stupid. Guys its just 18 GAMES LEFT. HE WILL BE GONE BY THE SUMMER! Use the remaining time to SUPPORT THE TEAM so we will SECURE A TOP 3 FINISH!!!

@traykidd...thats some perspective there...18 games aint a lot really...we are even to close Feb already...hope we grab a champions league place...go chelsea!

Start the campaign for re-hiring for RDM also. He should never get the sack in the first place. Let him finish on what he had started

Except for the idiotic comment Rodgers made about the Hazard incident...I think he has done pretty well at Liverpool...they look to be on the up...snapping up young talents here and there...now is Continho from Inter..(20yrs)....but will they be good enough to consistently challenge for chmapions league places given the level of competition from rival clubs?...time will tell....but they are clearly a side to watch

Rafa is here for the long haul,end of.Roman is king.

layorh12 Cant say anything about Mourinhos 3rd season in chelsea for bad, Winning the League cup and Fa cup doubble wich only Liverpool and Arsenal have done 2. The only reson we dint win the league that season was becuse of cechs head injury and roman buying of Sheva

Haha...Oh Chris(OLASAL),I didn't think you were actually going to take the lead when u asked 'If Rafa was out yet' on twitter...Anyways the wise thing to do for now would be to ride the Rafa wave till the summer,and hope for the best. I'm not concerned about how we play or how we win,as my enthusiasm has dropped immensely,but I'm hopeful and optimistic of a top 3 finish. Wouldn't mind us dropping out of all the cup competitions to concentrate on the EPL(Squad depth). Let's just ride the wave and kick Rafa's ass to his restaurant in spain in the summer. #UTC

i miss hiddink :(.

LoL...how "intelligent"

sack Rafa ? really? and then some ppple start having a go at Roman when he's impatient. C'mon sacking Rafa or any other manager at this stage of this season will land us in deeper waters than we already are...surely thats not nuclear physics. Let him serve his contract and come May, cfc management will need to demonstrate that they have learnt a few things in the way that they handle replacing him with a permanent manager...