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100% Rudkin has to go. He runs the football side of the club which is a disaster right now. He has caused the problems, not Ruud. Ruud might not be the answer but Rudkin has proven that he's not. Rudkin leaving will not change things overnight but Rudkin not leaving will change nothing for as long as he's here.

Clearly a relegation break clause. He knows it's coming, he'll be gone in a couple of weeks.

No way does Vardy get a pass. There needed to be a plan to replace him/phase him out at least three years ago. There wasn't and here we are. Tonight though, doing absolutely nothing puts you above Daka.

I'm probably one of Daka's bigger fans but OMG that was one of the worst first half performances I've ever seen from a professional footballer. Awful.

This game is crying out for Skipp to come on.

He's hated us since 2016. All season he was hoping and praying that we wouldn't win the league. There were comparisons at the time between us and the Norwich City team he was part of that went close in the 90's but fell away towards the end of the season. He couldn't bare it. Then Rodgers left his precious Celtic for us and he hated us even more.

I'd be on board with this. Would guarantee that we wouldn't go 7 games without scoring. But there it is - the players are too comfortable.

All this baby talk is frankly nonsense (assuming the baby is fit and healthy). If your chosen career in any field, not just football, sees you have the ambition to operate at the very top of the industry globally, in a hyper competitive role that a good proportion of the population would give their right arm to have the opportunity to do, then you have to make sacrifices. You can't just do whatever you want, you have to dedicate your life to your chosen trade. Harry Winks, I'm sure has dedicated a big portion of his life to be a Premier League footballer. I'm sure he'd say that he has made lots of sacrifices throughout his life but the fact is, that level of dedication has to remain - even with a baby. Some players can be footballer and father without any difficulty, others know that they won't be able to spend as much time as they or their partner might like them to in a family setting but I'm sorry, it comes with the territory. Ask any footballer who has a newborn, lives 100 miles away and plays in the National League if they would like a contract with a Premier League club (or even Championship) with the unwritten expectation that they may have to stay in a luxury hotel room once a week at the ground. I'd think that they would sign without a moment's hesitation 100 times out of 100. I don't know the exact reasons for RVN wanting him to stay over, but the mention of a 100 mile commute suggests to me that he is either turning up late, turning up tired or is itching to get away at the end of the day. Maybe all three. The reason really matters not. Nobody told Winks that he was not allowed to buy or rent a home closer to his workplace. The team is in a very poor state. It's terrible. There seems to be a certain level of laziness and lack of caring throughout the squad, which makes me sick. If RVN is trying to raise standards and sees this as a reasonable request to make, then I'm fully behind him.

I can't even be bothered to type a sarcastic "Buzzing for this" or "Must win!"

This. And if Kasper was commuting but arriving on time, staying to the end and performing to the maximum there's no issue. Winks has been an absolute waste of space this season and if RVN wants him to stay at the training ground or move closer, the multimillionaire, elite footballer Harry Winks should take some responsibility for his performances, acknowledge the privileged position he holds, suck it up and make arrangements to put an overnight bag in his car once a week.

As poor as the results and performances are, RVN isn't the biggest issue. Not even close. People might say that if Maresca or even Cooper had stayed we'd be better off, or if we sacked RVN and brought in this manager or that manager then things might be different. I doubt it. Maybe we would have scored a couple of goals here or there but we'd still be far from safe and relegation will still be a certainty. There is no upward trajectory with this club until there is a complete overhaul of the playing squad. It's rotten to the core. RVN might not be the answer, but he can't polish a turd and has to work with the tools he has. Get rid of him and the next guy will have all of the same problems, maybe they would be able to get an extra 10% out of the players, but these players giving an extra 10% is still nowhere near good enough. Whoever the manager is next season, even if it's RVN, they need to plan and be backed for a multi-season project to get to where we should be. And that multi-season project will be a difficult thing to watch for at least two transfer windows, regardless of who picks the team.

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They don't have all have a poor mentality, but lots do. In a team sport, that's fatal. Too many are professional footballers who have reached their ceiling in terms of where they go next. They're not going to be winning trophies, they're not going to play Champions League. If we get relegated, they might get a move to another bottom half Prem team, or go back to some European league that might suit them better. They've made enough money to live a luxury life for the rest of their lives and too many of our squad lack ambition to push the extra yard. If one does, they soon get dragged down to the level of the majority.

Same writers as Lost and a fair few similarities in my opinion. I've finished season 3 and it's one of those shows that actually gets better through the different series. Can't wait for season 4.

Depends who we play in pre season friendlies

Trump putting America first and treating the rest of the world as America's raw materials, expecting us to just roll over, because, you know, it's America. I'm not sure it will go as smoothly as Trump/Vance/Musk thinks it will. It's bonkers!

He isn't going anywhere. There's an air of acceptance around the club of relegation, the culture absolutely honks. It actually makes no sense to get rid of RVN now. Nobody half decent will jump aboard a sinking ship. Names that have previously been mentioned by folk on here that didn't come here with either a whole season to look forward to, or two thirds of a premier league season to go, aren't going to come here for 10 games and certain relegation. We need to rebuild, but first we have to knock the building down. If Ruud wants to stay here (and it's a big if) then if he wants to have input into shaping the team over the summer, then I say let him do it. Believe me, there are about 10 players I'd want to get rid of before we get another crap manager.

The Cunha thing is meaningless. He'll miss three games and that's it. One of those is against Southampton who Wolves will beat regardless. And in any case, even if Wolves lost every game between now and the end of the season, we still need to win 2 games to get past them, which I just can't see. If Wolves lose every game but beat us, that means we have to win 3 out of 10. Not happening!

sHoW sOmE rEsPeCt. pUt a sUiT oN.

It wouldn't happen. If Europe actually sent troops into Ukraine, Russia would make a lot of noise and a lot of threats. Some kind of cyber attack that might give European nations a temporary bloody nose, but no way they'd use nukes and Russia just couldn't go toe to toe with a united Europe. The US would react as they should. If Europe falls, it would be cataclysmic for the US economy and we can all see that that is where Trump's priorities lay. I think he'd do the right thing, but for the wrong reasons.

I think China is a tough nut to crack, even for the USA but this POTUS can keep China at arms length without too much trouble. Russia, on the other hand, could be an economic partner of the USA with oil, gas and rare-earth stuff and scope to persuade a more capitalist approach from within. I have visions (and I'm sure President Trump does too) of a Trump Tower in Moscow. For Russia to thrive economically, the US will need to play a major part. Trump the deal maker, sees opportunity here. He knows that Russia aren't going to invade anyone else, after the struggles experienced in Ukraine. Trumps plan was to sign a deal that enabled US companies to mine Ukraine, his peace-keeping strategy would be American miners, not troops. Putin wouldn't "dare" cause problems for US citizens and once up and running, there would then be deals to strike with Putin for Ukranian mines. What Trump doesn't want, is a United States of Europe. A population twice the size of America, great infrastructure, well educated, economically astute people. THAT poses more of a threat to Trump than Russia hence why he is trying to cause disharmony. I think a slightly fractured Europe suits Trump better than a united NATO.

The reality is that the culture at the club sucks ass and is as far away from an elite sports club as you can get. I coach an U16 team who are pretty average. On our day we can compete with anyone in our league but to get results, all of the players have to turn up and put a shift in. If 2 players can't be bothered, we'll lose, because 9 average players aren't good enough - we need all 11. Same with Leicester, we just can't afford passengers. Whilst my U16s are kids with other interests and a mixed bag of backgrounds, you can forgive them but at an elite level sports club, paying "professionals" millions of pounds, the minimum expectation is that they all give 100% effort, 100% of the time. When we get to match day and only 5 or 6 actually put in the required effort, we're not going to win anything. Sad to say, but a big part of the playing squad needs to move on immediately to get rid of this lazy (there - I said it) culture. That means we might experience some pain in the medium term if we can't get the replacements in but the poison needs cutting out.

There's still 2 minutes left in the West Ham game!

And the reason we haven't replaced him is because we have kept handing him massive contracts based on sentiment and aren't in a position to bring a top quality young striker in whilst sitting 100k per week on the bench.