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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.

The sad thing is that the players' attitude has rubbed off on the manager instead of the manager's attitude rubbing off on the players. We're done.

Absolutely buzzing for this.

Wife chose a film the other night for us to watch. It was called "Blink Twice" with Channing Tatum. What a terrible film - like one of the worst films I'd ever seen. The following night, I chose a film - another slasher movie. I thought that I would show her that selecting a random film would be better than the previous night's effort, so chose "Infinity Pool". OMG, it was even worse. Dreadful! Avoid!

Never too late to do the right thing.

Jamie Vardy needs to leave.

Gary Lineker

Who?

Who knows, but I definitely think there are some major issues at the club that we don't know about. Everything is so unexplainable, there just has to be something behind the scenes.

Confident for this.

I really think it's pointless to sack him if the intention is to stay up. There are two big problems: 1. It doesn't matter who the manager is, the players are the same. The talent in the squad is a bigger issue than the quality of the manager. 2. If RVN does go, it's extremely difficult to see who would come in to replace him who would be any better. Given our recent history in the speed of lining up a replacement, we could be down to 10 games to save the season. With that said, there does need to be a grown up conversation which centres on whether RVN will be our manager in the Championship. If he doesn't fancy it, then get rid now. If we think RVN isn't the man for that task, then get rid now. The most pointless thing would be to keep him here until the end of the season, get relegated and then sack him. That would be stupid.

Can we have a third option? "It doesn't matter"?

Nobody would

Yes. I continually find it disgusting that governments seem to always try to find a scapegoat in cases like this. Captain Hindsight and their bunch of hangers on: It was the police's fault. It was social service's fault. It was the hospital's fault. Now, it was Amazon's fault. All of this finger pointing deflects from the actual perpetrators of the crime.

Ruud might be the right guy, but he's here at the wrong time. We need someone who can grind out results with a below par bunch of players. It won't be pretty, but we need to be picking up points with 0-0, 1-1 and the odd narrow victory here and there. RVN might be capable of being a top performing manager, but not here, not with this bunch of players and not now.

Must be a cracking game if most if the comments are critiquing the co-commentator

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx8rz2y7dxo Trump inauguration? Nope. The planet on fire? Nope. Gaza peace deal? Nope. Rising knife crime? Nope. Everyone stop! This story has a twist! Just in time for the launch of her new show.

Some people already forgetting the absolute banger he scored against QPR. Keep.