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#WhenTaken #109 (15.06.2024) I scored 837/1000 🎉 1️⃣ 📍 558 km - 🗓️ 6 yrs - ⚡ 176 / 200 2️⃣ 📍 911 km - 🗓️ 18 yrs - ⚡ 134 / 200 3️⃣ 📍 275.3 metres - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 199 / 200 4️⃣ 📍 427.6 metres - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 195 / 200 5️⃣ 📍 1955 km - 🗓️ 11 yrs - ⚡ 133 / 200

#WhenTaken #108 (14.06.2024) I scored 786/1000 🎉 1️⃣ 📍 746 km - 🗓️ 46 yrs - ⚡ 78 / 200 2️⃣ 📍 7 km - 🗓️ 5 yrs - ⚡ 195 / 200 3️⃣ 📍 373.9 metres - 🗓️ 15 yrs - ⚡ 170 / 200 4️⃣ 📍 1976 km - 🗓️ 1 yrs - ⚡ 150 / 200 5️⃣ 📍 2 km - 🗓️ 6 yrs - ⚡ 193 / 200 https://whentaken.com Failry tight geographically but then I do lay a lot of geoguessr

Shared the large platter which was nice but can’t judge the more standard dishes from that tbh. Pizzas looked nice

Veeno have 50% off food atm

We've made lots of mistakes and even on here, just a bunch of forum posters have been proved right - it's not all the benefit of hindsight. There's been lots of mistakes at the club as evidenced by the worst PL relation ever and massive subsequent losses. Lots of people are culpable but Rudkin is literally the director of football and the football dept kept f ucking up.

When did I say it's all him, I very clearly said I want them all gone. Contracts are his remit, as confirmed by multiple players. Vardy, Evans, Huth etc have all said so in the pasts. Contract management is one of the few aspects that we know - for certain - Rudkin handles. We've had more than £100m+ worth of players leave on frees recently. I can't imagine the board (of which Rudkin is obviously a member) wanted that to happen. If he's continually overruled (you don't know that, you're speculating) then they don't trust him so he should be replaced or they should change internal processes. There's always going to be more to it than we realise - it's hardly a defence, it's just an appeal to inertia because we'll never know. Of course there's risks, obviously I grasp that. We took needless risks through haphazard spending because our squad management was so bad rather than we tried to send our way through the glass ceiling. Take Praet, Ward and Mandy as examples - we overpaid and never shifted them for a fee. They were not calculated risks it was just lazy spending and we never rectified our initial mistakes. Aha, somebody has to want these players! True, but we can't shift them because we overpay, that comes back to bad contract management and as we've established that's on Rudkin. I don't know that for a fact (how could I?) but if we did replace him with a good DoF I'm 99% sure we'd be better off. The look-it's-complicated-it's-not-just-Rudkin line works if people want an overhaul elsewhere but that bandwagon seemingly wants nothing to happen instead.

Are the impending points deductions a good indicator of Rudkin’s ability as key cog in the running of the football club?

89.5m loss and a record points deduction on the cards - previous achievements mean very little when the quality of decision making behind the scenes has been trending negatively for years. I think they’re all useless and would have everybody replaced but then your usual routine is “we don’t know who does what” so the obfuscation starts. The most common point of failure are responsibilities under Rudkin’s remit. Top isn’t going anywhere so the lowest hanging fruit is replacing the director of football for a better one. Managers go stale, CEOs go stale so naturally DoFs can too. If we binned him off and appointed a smart, up and coming DoF and gave them the autonomy to build something we’d be way better off on the long run.

Even you weigh up the good and bad he’s been fully or partially culpable for successive disasters since then. Apportioning him credit for things that happened 10 years ago is like saying well OJ had 11,236 rushing yards, 2,142 receiving yards and 990 kick return yards so it’s not all bad

"Are the 'good times' in the room with us right now?"

Was out so didn’t catch it, saw our total and thought it was a nailed on loss. Hull is a class death bowler

Good

His sides barely score north of 1.00 goals per game, with any deduction we're going to have be more positive than his tallies suggest. Although you'd expect he'd adapt accordingly if it does come to fruition

Had this issue at Luton last week, huge avoidable bottleneck - I normally travel lightly so checking a case in was 10x more stressful than I remember.

Wyggeston House is the closest good pub. Shame the King Richard is so shit now

GeoWizard's new series

We're going to be contained so we'll have to spend it on priority positions - I don't think LB is the high up

They can

If we sold Kristiansen for £15m and signed Truffert for £20m it'd be excellent business but it's £5m we can't spend. This guy is going on a free https://fbref.com/en/players/74e90475/Sergi-Cardona

Bournemouth missed a hatful of good chances - we weren’t the better side

Ok let’s just do that again

Maybe he's just not that good but Maswanhise is seemingly one we could have gotten more out of, 21 goals in 54 starts in the PL2 - a loan at 18 or 19 could have been the springboard he needed.

Sesko will get a couple in this group I think

In one off cup ties with the prospect of penalties being ultra defensive works in a way it can't in league campaigns

Who plays direct football successfully? I’m an advocate for being direct when it’s right but the good sides all build up with primarily short passes. Leverkusen are incredibly indirect.