5waller5

Damn!!! My cunning plan already foiled.

I have the perfect solution!!!

Absolutely

“Offered for Rudkin” by posters here. I agree, the board silence is part of the problem.

😂😂 3rd!!! We have another 3 when needed!

Looking that way now … Who’d have thought that 6 games ago!

I remember it well…. The Stoke fans loved rubbing it in too

That IS Enzoball …. It’s just the team are now starting to execute it better - and the great thing is there is so much more to come, we’re in 3rd gear now!

Dropped to 4th today!

Superb. Keep making those banners boys - we need Enzo to know that he’s loved and for Top to know he has to fire Rudkin!!!

I know that it’s just conjecture and that we can’t see the inner workings but this is exactly my take too. You’ve articulately it really well. For me the unfortunate reality of the son inheriting the empire is that he is too inexperienced to recognise the above and will stick with Rudkin through comfort and familiarity.

I’m left speechless by the increasingly bizarre defence offered for Rudkin. The latest being: We ran out of time so that’s not his fault!!!!

I must be one of the 1% then. I’d say I have a fairly good idea what the responsibilities of a Director are. Simply put you’re in charge of the area you direct. Eg. Football. I’d happily see Rudkin sacked, but would be devastated to lose our brilliant manager who’s football philosophy / tactics / style I love. I don’t suppose I’m as unique as your post suggests.

Despite the happy clapping we’ve gone backwards this January. Let’s hope the ten point cushion is enough (I think it is and if the risk was calculated, in this regard it will pay off) and that we haven’t soured relations with our exceptional manager (that’s the real concern). I would imagine any period of stagnation, any missed opportunity, any dropping of the ball would be frustrating to someone 100% focussed on continual improvement. That’s my biggest worry - that he’ll feel that we don’t match his ambitions / plans.

He’d have absolutely believed that he’d also be able to tweak the squad in January and backfill any injury spaces. I rarely criticise the board, especially Top, but it seems like there is a void where the club leadership should sit

I only scrolled back 4 pages, thought I’d got the gist and felt compelled to respond. If doing this deal broke FFP rules, then we were already on course to break them - we’ve got rid of what, 4 players’ wages in the last week or so? Also why not let Souttar join Leeds and us take Sensi?? That would be the way to avoid FFP, and yet we don’t because someone thought they’d be strengthening a rival - I guarantee that someone wasn’t Enzo. So there’s a club pulling in different directions, and not aligned with Enzo it seems.

Or persists with a manager long after he has disrespected everything about the club, deliberately lost points to back his own agenda, and after pretty much every sane fan could see we’d be relegated…. Costing £100m+ in revenue, fire-selling their assets at well below their value, whilst retaining over-paid liabilities. Then having a frank meeting to uncover the issues (Jon Rudkin), and learning from the meeting, with Jon Rudkin, that the only thing not to blame for the catastrophic footballing decisions is the Head of Football, and handing more power to Jon Rudkin. There are many flavours of “badly run”. Right now we seem to be trying quite a few of them.

At least Leeds have done about as well as us this window:

Unfortunately, and bizarrely, this does appear to be the case

Hold my coat!

It’s the hope that kills you

Scary if true!!

I’ve no idea!! I was guessing!!

Do you know the reason?? My money is on Rudkin being at Top’s wedding and can’t take calls??

I’m absolutely bought into Enzo’s football… but even I found those two examples frustrating. It’s down to individual decisions, like you say, and nothing is ever going to be perfect. People make mistakes. If they didn’t the game would be very boring!!