Nickaj

Amid total silence from the club - no statements, no comments on their future intentions and no news. Is Top deliberately trying to kill our interest in the club?

All down to Top as far as I'm concerned, lacking totally in leadership, communication and management skills. Criticise Rudkin all you like - and I do - he reports to Top who is obviously happy with his performance no matter how ridiculous that sounds. And what we're seeing now on the pitch is the inevitable result of this total lack of ability in the Boardroom, All down to Top...

I'm not convinced there is any intention of the club making significant signings apart from maybe a few loans. Seems at least possible that the club has decided- or is being required- to limit all non-essential spending and maybe even, who knows, channel funds back to help KP's financial troubles in Thailand. Future doesn't look all that promising and the silence we've all had to become used to from the Boardroom certainly isn't in any way reassuring.

To me in H1 it sounded like thousands

I'm expecting a hard-fought, difficult match. I'm not worried about the score, it'll be close I think and I just want 3 points at the end of it.

You're right, it doesn't sound funny at all

It isn't, but Mad's value is determined by what others would be prepared to pay. It seems that West Ham are the only club prepared to offer and therefore they have determined his current value. Of course it might have been different if others had been prepared to offer....

I wouldn't quite go that far, there's lots of work still to be done on transfers both in and out and selling a player for the specified release clause amount isn't all that challenging once interested potential buyers have made contact.

The strangest thing for me - amongst a whole lot of strange things about this club! - is that most clubs, organisations and businesses in general would work really hard at engaging with their supporters or 'customers' in order to foster or generate interest in their products or activities. The hierarchy at LCFC clearly regard their supporters as a total nuisance to be kept in ignorance and at arms lengt, to be starved of any news. As long as we keep giving them money of course

I think this view is far more commonly held and certainly more widespread than perhaps we would like to think

That represents the standard Thai / South East Asian approach to business - the owner takes the decisions, which are then communicated by the hired help. That approach is clear for all to see on almost a daily basis from LCFC where the staff - at all levels - know absolutely nothing until word is communicated to them from on high. Embarrassing isn't it

No rush, it's only Monday......

I seem to remember that at the time the new stadium was being planned, there were those who felt that the proposed eventual 32,000 capacity was too large. I am sure that if we had constructed the new stadium with the originally proposed 40,000 capacity, we would have filled it in just the same way that we achieved crowds of 32000.

So we've one incompetent Thai businessman losing patience with another incompetent Thai businessman leading to the first incompetent Thai businessman then turning to Jon Rudkin to sort things out for him. That's alright then, we're saved!

Perhaps it's just a very very long shortlist?

That as a shortlist suggests that we've tried for lots and lots of people and failed. Plus lots more too.....!

Certainly true of a great number of people who sit near me in the East Stand

Better off in terms of league position perhaps, but could we have confidence that a shortlist of suitable potential future managers would have been prepared in order to avoid another period in limbo such as we find ourselves in at the moment? And that would be to rely on suitable managers being available and willing to come at the time we need them. I understand the need to appoint the best possible candidate but also think we need a period of stability in terms of both recruitment and style of play. We don't look like getting that at LCFC with the current 'revolving door' style seemingly favoured by our Board.

Quite right

They're balm cakes where I come from!

Tempting to think that but I think it's inevitable that the news would have leaked somehow, from somewhere, if that was the case. To have decided upon - and appointed - a replacement so early in the process would require a degree of forward planning and organisation entirely beyond any of the decision makers at our club. Surely you know that!!

I'm sure you're right about the quality of the football during the 1970 World Cup but for the life of me, I can't remember anything about it. I can remember much of the 1966 World Cup almost like it was yesterday but not 1970, almost nothing. Must be getting old......

Really? There's a strong argument that the players have been appeased too much already and that more of a 'Brian Clough'- type approach is needed.

It's the DNA of the club and the current work ethic that are a large part of the problem

At the moment it doesn't look as though he's going anywhere - certainly not for anything like £20 mill.