Kieran Gill: Have noticed how Chelsea’s players have started performing their pre-KO huddle slap bang in the middle of the centre circle rather than in their own half. It’s one of a few ideas conjured up by Willie Isa in conjunction with the squad’s leadership group incl Reece James

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  1. ParticularFinish12 on

    feels like a monty Python sketch

    Willie Isa doesn’t even feel like a real name

  2. Alternative_Court262 on

    I sincerely hope that took about 20 seconds and they’ve been spending time worrying about pressing, scoring and marking. Could be wrong.

  3. OverlyRipeKumquat on

    Have we actually won a game since we started doing this? Did we do it against Villa?

  4. Doing it against Villa and putting in a great performance was fine. Doing it against psg and not doing too badly till the final 20 was also not that bad. Doing it vs a Newcastle team with no midfield and their best players out and not even scoring a goal at home is embarrassing.

    Huddles ain’t gonna make shit players good

  5. If you split the word, Hud- and -dle, you get the meaning and…

    yeah I’ve got nothing

  6. Has anyone figured out what Willie actually does? I’ve read he’s a support role for players (whatever that mean) ranging to being some motivational / leader role?

  7. Embarrassing and doesn’t actually do anything. See also Rosenior handing out paper notes to players

  8. Projects failing. Nothing changed from 3 seasons ago, awful recruitment with inexperienced managers and players…new are going nowhere

    ….and we are talking about where they do the fuckin huddles.

  9. Main issue with this now, is that its pissing off the refs. We should not be annoying refs, especially at the beginning of the game – theyre naturally going make shitty decisions against us because they dont like us. Just stop doing it

  10. Ferrari_Bones on

    Although harmless, it does feel performative and why does it need to be in the centre circle, does doing it else where decrease player unity.

  11. Barter6overBible on

    This is one of those things that’s great when we’re winning but look absolutely foolish when we’re wank.