Donwebbio

Brilliant summary thank you. Is the £200 million debt a genuine figure and is that info in the public domain? If so, is it all owed to Macquarie? The cost of servicing such a debt must be £15-£20 million per year.

I think that goes without saying. All the bad decisions have Rudkin's fingerprints on Removing Rudkin is one move. Removing Top means selling the whole club and I can't see Top selling up.

Seagrave is the ultimate white elephant. Built out of delusion. Best training facility in the country being sustained by gates of 32k - madness. The ground extension should have been job no.1 for KP to increase our revenue capacity.

I was introduced to John Percy the journalist at a party last night and after being a bit starstruck, I thanked him for his critical coverage of the regime and asked him if he had ever met Rudkin. He said not but immediately said that he is by far the biggest problem at the club and holds all the power. Percy said he is just an overpromoted PE teacher but we knew that. He is a Forest fan but said he feels our pain.

How none of these 14 managers we have had haven't thought about playing 3 CB's at is strange. We probably don't have a good enough back 4 in truth so need something different. This formation takes away the worst part of Thomas' game with the ball in behind. Mav could be an option up top. Lascelles leadership qualites introducded. Worth a try: Stol Lascelles Nelson Okoli Thomas Winks James Skipp Fatawu Mukasa Daka/Mavididi

If you start Jordan Ayew up top when he can't run, can't press, can't offer any tangible goal threat then you deserve to lose football games. It's a disgraceful piece of selection. We got away with it on Tuesday. Daka isn't the best but infinately better than Ayew.

He was my MOTM last night. His reading of the game is much improved and has all the raw physical tools and technical abilities to be an elite CB. Tackles: 5 Clearances: 10 Interceptions: 2 Recoveries: 5 Fouls committed: 1 Passes made: 44/51 (86%) - team avg 80% Goals: 1

How about the recruitment department? That has escaped the reshuffle. As bad as Rudkin has been and of course he is a shambles of a DoF, as bad an owner as the Nepobaby has been, recruitment had been our major flaw. Maybe Glover compiles page after page of superb prospects from his global scouting network only to president them to Rudkin who looks at them briefly before popping them into the shredder and calling his favourite agent. But Glover must either be a flaccid yes man or a shite Recruitment head. These permanent signings have killed us aling with a fair few loan mistakes: Tielemans Perez Praet Justin Hirst Castagne Fofana Daka Soumare Vestergaard Faes Smithies Kristiansen Souttar Winks Coady Hermansen Mavididi Cannon Fatawu Golding Okoli Skipp El Khannouss De Cordova-Reid Ayew Begovic Vieites Lascelles Good clubs must target a success rate of 4 good signings out of 5 which provide a return on the pitch and generate profits for future signings. What is Glover's hit rate? 2 in 5?

Mukasa's role wouldn't really change in that system. He would stay play as a 10/support striker. The big change would be out wide. I would doubt it would suit Mavididi. Fatawu yes. Aluko has the athleticism to play there on the right. Left would be an issue. It would have to be Thomas and maybe it would suit him with an extra CB sweeping that side.

At least a double sub. We have no control at all.

Skipp has been poor.

Yep another terrible signing. To think he was bought for the PL but looking not quite upto Championship level. Hopefully only playing so Mukasa can play on Tuesday.

Great cross - great finish! Thomas can put the odd great ball in but the other 90% of the time he is truly awful.

We have had the better chances for sure but they have just had a big one from a corner.

He can and has played there but primarily a RB. I was wondering if there was a natural LB in the academy - got to be better than Thomas who is our clearest weak link.

Can we chip in and get some boots for Daka - the poor guy is always slipping over in those skates he wears.

Luke Thomas will be on 3 x more than the next starting LB. Relegation will be a major disaster for this club and still the owners won't sell.

The guys on the football finance podcast seemed pretty confident that they were both applicable to League 1 or capped at 1 relegation. Let's hope there is something because paying Skipp 50k in L1 is going to both embarrassing and financially crippling. I think they were talking on that same pod that our current expenditure would need to be cut by 60% to comply with the spending rules in L1.

I had an interesting but heated conversation with a KPFC Loyalist this week. He labelled fans who wanted new ownership like myself arrogant and entitled. He thought that the success of 2016 and the cup win in 2021 should allow KP to stay as long as they wished to on the back of that. Then they same tosh about how no other club our size can match our achievements and would swap in an instant etc. Interestingly, he was happy for Marti to be sacked on poor performance and was also happy for club employees to be held accountable except for those who have earned the lifetime right not to be. He just wouldn't entertain that Bot & Crudkin had no meaningful input into the success and in Crudkins case, has been directing football badly for a decade. What struck me was how much he believed in what he was saying, as if zero doubt had crept in during the decline of the past 3-5 years and if anything had hardened his view.

And obviously we have just bumped up those running costs by adding a layer of middle management and pointless execs who add nothing. Oh and another year of Winks' massive salary if we can't shift him. There is also no relegation clauses to League 1 as it was seemed an impossible scenario. It's bleak whichever way you look at it.

Again, the optics are terrible. At this point, with league 1 football a very real possibility, spending £100's K on fat salaries and adding layers of administrative fat when we will need to be cutting severe costs in June makes no sense. Please sell the club you useless cretins.

If you take emotion out of it, the simple fact of the matter is we have too many of our first team players who are not at the level to compete in the Championship. In my opinion the following: Skipp Thomas Okoli Ayew Daka Ricardo Decordova Reid Our best players are loan players who will be long gone in June. We are in this position because out recruitment has been poor for about 5 years or since Macia left the club. Our contract management has also been awful, absolutely awful. And, as at today - nobody has been held accountable for the above. The head or recruitment is still in place, the DoF is still in place and is actually in line for a promotion.

Absolute peak Top-kin behaviour to finally make a good, meaningful decision that will change the whole momentum of the football club - only to make it too late and relegation renders it void.

I imagine Marti is a bit of an oversharer at HT, talking at the players for 15 mins. The reaction today was very encouraging and would indicate that has kept the message simple, shared what he was not happy with and most importantly encouraged. I think it was Arsene Wenger who said that at HT he could only get over a maximum of 2 instructions. Anymore than that and players would have attention drift.

Goals and assists would be good.