Clever Fox

Again you have to say that's down to Rudkin as DOF.

Rudkin has to go I think if KP are serious about sorting out the mess. A proper proven DOF is needed urgently. It's annoying in that we have Pearson who we know could do a job but it seems him and Rudkin didn't get on. Puel or Moyes are 2 others who could do a good job too.

This is where it all starts. I'd say 2 GKs are enough as they dont get injured too often and you still have the Dev Squad Keeper for back up if needed.

The real problem we have is there's nobody with the inside Football knowledge at the Club. Not Top Whelan and certainly not Rudkin. Imagine where we might be if we had offered Enzo more money to stay. That's how import the right Manager is. But you also have to have the right personnel behind him in support and working together.

If Mads has to go in the Summer I'd stick with Stolarcyzk and Iversen and spend the money on the Team. I'd also reduce the squad to 16 to 18 at most and use the savings to bring in Quality over Quantity. We won the league with 14 or 15 players I think. We won the Championship with a similar number. Thats more than a big enough squad with the Development sqaud as further back up.

It really is atrocious management. There's no incentive for Ward to agree to anything unless we make it a lump sum of some sort. The problem with that is it's a direct hit on the yearend accounts for psr. We can't even amortise it over the rest of his contract which Clubs should be allowed do. If he get a contract for 1k aweek he'll be lucky. Choudhury is a little different. He can fill a few outfield positions if needed like today. However you have to make some allowances for his lack of game time. But again you have to question who decided to give him 50k a week. ? for a bit part player with limited experience. Basic salary with big pay as you play bonuses is the way forward for Clubs like us. Get back to our model of the Pearson era.

Because Pearson was sacked, Then Rudkin got promoted as DOF and it pretty much has went downhill from there. We allowed Managers to change personnel etc when we should have kept the core of what Pearson builf intact. We need to get back to basics. How do you do that, By signing people with a proven record of having done it before like Pearson, Walsh or Puel. If we have to go down again so be it provided we get the right people into place.

The big problem is who is going to take either of them when we're paying them a reported 50k a week. Madness I agree though we need to get rid even if we have to pay them off which is not easy. Then be an awful lot smarter going forward with pay as you play contracts plus results. I very much doubt Brentford are paying anyone 50k a week and look where they are in the league.

He's already saved us more than that this season. If we're to stay up we need him to keep performing at the same level he has todate. While Ruud hopefully sorts out the rest of the squad quickly.

Can someone tell me what he offers because I've seen very little redeeming qualities in Skipp. I'm sure we could have got more quality from league 1 or 2. There must be some midfield talent down there with a level of Skill.

Agree with your first part. I was expecting him to run them ragged down the left But he's totally lost his confidence. Another problem with Mav is he doesn't fully understand the game yet. He's got where he is by running rings around defenders most weeks since childhood. Now he's at a different level and is a little lost. Not uncommon with some players. He needs help from the Coaches and I have'nt seen much to date which is an inditement of the Coaches. Lets hope Ruud brings in some top Dutch Coaches to help him and help the players improve individually and get us out of this mess.

He's had too many chances now for me. Time to get rid asap. Even if we dont have cover for him.

I'm guessing the thinking was not to risk Iversen getting injured as we're looking to sell him in January. So lets go with Ward and see how good he is. When in fact putting Iversen in the shop Window might have been the best thing to do giving the pasting we took all game. We're never selling Ward with the Salary he's on. We really do need to get so much smarter when handing out Contracts. We really do.

who ever signed off on that should be sacked. It means they got Maddison for 15 million and we got nothing out of that deal.

On the plus side Ruud now knows how bad Ward is for himself.

To be fair to Newcastle, They've been right at it from the off.

No His first 2 touches were to pick it out of the Net.

Everyone's lost confidence with Ward in Goal.

I just knew Wards first touch would be picking the Ball out of the Goal.

Another training ground Goal.

It looks like Ruud is willing to thow this game to get a look at Ward.

I think Cooper broke his confidence Now he's not sure what to do. I'm sure Ruud will get him playing again.

Yes possibly, but we just dont have the options on the Bench. In midfiled he might surprise a few people with less pressure on him.

As bad as the Ref is Var is even worse when it's supposed to correct mistakes.

We knew it was going to be tough with so many injuries to key players. And we still have a chance to get back into it.