I watched the match from the 30th minute which coincidentally was when we started playing well. Best players for me were Phillip, Kane, PVA and B.Clifford. Think Phillip could get some chances in the CC this year, he's been in such god form for the reserves. Still a rough diamond but there's potential.

It sounds like it was a canny game..

On the Sunderland side if they read...their LB impressed me as well as their left-winger, they linked up well. And that massive battering ram that they call a player as their forward caused our cB's problems. He was massive! We needed Pappoe there just to match him.

We're definitely on the same wavelength BK , on another thread about who was going to make it from the reserves I mentioned Phillip as he was getting goals regularly last campaign and has started this campaign in similar fashion.

I can't remember the Sunderland's players names except the big striker, called Armstrong

BK This was the Sunderland line up
Sunderland (4-1-4-1): Trevor Carson; Louis Laing, John Egan, Matthew Kilgallon, Michael Liddle; Adam Reed; Jordan Cook, James Armstrong, Billy Knott (RoarieDeacon 60); James McClean (Adam Mitchell 60), Oumare Tounkara.
Unused subs Jordan Pickford, Liam Bagnall, Jordan Laidler.

I'm glad he's put his injury problems behind him. Whether he'll ever make it at a club like Chelsea as a regular starter I'm not sure, but as a squad player I can really see him being a good replacement for Kalou if he keeps progressing. someone pointed uot that he wasn't even a pro-footballer until he was 15, so has only been getting pro-coaching for only 5 years while McEachran and B.Clifford etc. ahve had double that time with coaching.

Oh sorry, it was Tounkara who was their forward, gettng mixed up

Todd Kane has looked really good last season and looked just as good today. I reckon he has a big future at Chelsea

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Out of that starting team today, I think the players that may make it are Kalas and PVA, maybe Billy Clifford.

How do you determine 'make-it' do you mean as a starting player or just as a squad player? I would say the whole starting line-up except 2 or 3 players could easily amke it as a squad player. Maybe that's a bit optimistic, but you can see the potential they have

As a starting player. In terms of squad players, chelsea always bring in new players pushing the first team players back, so none will become squad players imo.

chelsea always bring in new players pushing the first team players back
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All teams do.

Barca arguably have the best youth system in the world and yet outspend most teams every year.

Fair enough. Not suggesting they'll all make it as squad players btw!

Yea that's what i mean, unless the players are good enough to start, they will be let go imo. Look at Robert Huth, could of been kept as squad players but we let him go.
The Blue Kenyan ¡Viva Sturridge! I know what you ment.

Because he wanted more first team games. *

Kane has got a great future.

Speaking of the reserves does anyone know why we can no longer watch the reserves play live ??

I made an article on this before and nobody could give me an answer.

I miss the old days of paying a fiver to watch the reserves play at Griffin Park on a Monday night.