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Sol thewall Bamba

Rudkin

By Sol thewall Bamba, in Leicester City Forum

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sylofox

sylofox

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9 hours ago, Foxin_Mad said:

Unbelievable really that people try to make a case for this absolute clown. He's a failure end of. 

I've never seen anyone on here make a case for him. I don't think anyone thinks he's up to the job.

 

But people me included stick up for him because clowns on here blame him for everything wrong in the club. None of us know his full remit. But safe to say he's not the guy sorting out the budget. He's football not finances.

 

He's not upto it and yes get rid but, The clowns are those that blame him for everything and those that can't see that. Nothing will improve at our club by getting rid of Rudkin alone.

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Stadt

Stadt

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Reading Ian Graham’s director of research (head of analysis essentially) at Liverpool’s book.

 

We let Rodgers repeat the same mistakes a decade and arguably doubled down by letting him bring Congerton in.

 

By contrast he’s absolutely glowing about Michael Edwards. Shows the importance of a great overall culture, shrewd owners, the right DoF and being data-driven. Everything we’re not at this point.

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Daggers

Daggers

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9 hours ago, Stadt said:

Reading Ian Graham’s director of research (head of analysis essentially) at Liverpool’s book.

 

We let Rodgers repeat the same mistakes a decade and arguably doubled down by letting him bring Congerton in.

 

By contrast he’s absolutely glowing about Michael Edwards. Shows the importance of a great overall culture, shrewd owners, the right DoF and being data-driven. Everything we’re not at this point.

That's saved me having to buy it.

 

We should have all books condenced down to three sentences, it'd save no end of time.

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Lambert09

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just listened to the tippy tappy podcast with albrighton. He told a hilarious story about drinky demanding to talk to rudkin when chelsea wanted him, but he was hiding.  Drinky apparently had to refuse to train until the dof would tell him what was going on… which is actually pretty fair. 

 

Big sam even questioned it “isn’t it the dof’s job to speak to the players in those situations”

 

Im yet to hear a story about rudkin that doesn’t make him sound like a complete clown. 

 

 

 

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Daggers

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1 hour ago, Lambert09 said:

 

Big sam even questioned it “isn’t it the dof’s job to speak to the players in those situations”

 

But how does he 'know' that's his job? 🤔

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sylofox

sylofox

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2 hours ago, Daggers said:

But how does he 'know' that's his job? 🤔

Safe to say in this instance  it was Rudkins job. Well Drinky after a number of years at the club thought it was. If that was not his job it shows what a fvcking mess this club is.

I hate it when Rudkin is blamed for this whole shit show. But this surely is down to Rudkin.

moore_94

moore_94

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9 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Can we just get Macia back to replace this complete Weasel?

 

First thing I do on FM😂

Occasionally when starting a new save I like to use the pre-game editor to bomb his stats lol

 

Makes them more realistic imo :thumbup:

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Wasyls Pec Deck

Wasyls Pec Deck

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17 hours ago, Stadt said:

Reading Ian Graham’s director of research (head of analysis essentially) at Liverpool’s book.

 

We let Rodgers repeat the same mistakes a decade and arguably doubled down by letting him bring Congerton in.

 

By contrast he’s absolutely glowing about Michael Edwards. Shows the importance of a great overall culture, shrewd owners, the right DoF and being data-driven. Everything we’re not at this point.

What book is this?

Daggers

Daggers

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2 hours ago, sylofox said:

Safe to say in this instance  it was Rudkins job. Well Drinky after a number of years at the club thought it was. If that was not his job it shows what a fvcking mess this club is.

I hate it when Rudkin is blamed for this whole shit show. But this surely is down to Rudkin.

It’s a Babylon meme. ;)

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dmayne7

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On 07/09/2024 at 20:56, sylofox said:

I've never seen anyone on here make a case for him. I don't think anyone thinks he's up to the job.

 

But people me included stick up for him because clowns on here blame him for everything wrong in the club. None of us know his full remit. But safe to say he's not the guy sorting out the budget. He's football not finances.

 

He's not upto it and yes get rid but, The clowns are those that blame him for everything and those that can't see that. Nothing will improve at our club by getting rid of Rudkin alone.

Huh? He's a director, so he absolutely will have budgetary control and have input into what can be spent overall and on an individual basis. That's absolutely standard practice in all businesses so would be amazed that it's not the case here. Unless you know the inner workings, since you're calling out people for not knowing his full remit, then making an assumption that goes against all standard practice and logic?

 

Of course he's not the one who has ultimate accountability for finances but given we're a football club, our main transactions are likely to be on the footballing side of things. We don't have a technical director that I'm aware of (more than happy to be corrected on that), so Rudkin's role would include oversight and final sign off of all incoming transfers, outgoing transfers, contract renewals and recruitment and termination of the footballing staff (though realise that manager appointment would be a shared process). Given the overwhelming majority of our problems stem from the mismanagement of the footballing side, and the financial mismanagement related to that, it's completely understandable to lay the blame squarely at his door. Of course, our abysmal commerciality is another big supplementary factor and nothing to do with Rudkin.

 

It needs more than just Rudkin gone for sure, but clearly removing Rudkin and getting somebody in who is competent and not Top's lapdog will absolutely have a massive positive change so not sure why you think it wouldn't?

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sylofox

sylofox

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1 hour ago, dmayne7 said:

Huh? He's a director, so he absolutely will have budgetary control and have input into what can be spent overall and on an individual basis. 

Yes he will have a budget and is in control of it. But it's Top Sue and the finance directors that give him that.

 

Do you really think he spends whatever he wants whenever he wants?

 

If that really is the case we are totally doomed. We might as well give up now as this club with these owners is finished. Like I've already said just getting rid of Rudkin will make no difference with the incompetence around and above him.

Stadt

Stadt

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8 minutes ago, Reginaldo said:

Hasn’t Ian Graham has won as many PL Titles as Rudkin though ;-)

I knew this was coming. 

 

I'd love to hear Rudkin's thoughts on how we won the league and what went well. Instead the most recent interview he did was about 12 years ago as a youth coach. 

 

The media embargo on senior leaders at the club is a big reason why there's zero accountability.

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Finnegan

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I've previously used the title win to defend Rudkin but, in fairness, a decent amount of that side was identified and signed before he started in the role and I'm pretty sure I remember there being friction between himself and the Pearson-Walsh double act? 

 

Moreover, I think recent history has demonstrated that Rudkin gives an enormous amount of freedom to the head coach and head of recruitment to dictate transfer philosophy meaning the building of any particular squad (for good or bad) is probably more out of his control than it should be. 

 

I guess that makes him equal parts pointless as much as useless?

 

themightyrudfin will have you believe that's fine though because, after all, nobody knows what a Director of Football is meant to do anyway! 

 

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fox_favourite

fox_favourite

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Mysteriously missing? 

 

This is on him. We need to get a fresh DoF with proper contacts in. Quite clearly they panicked when appointing him, but he should have gone the summer before. 

 

Heales mistake after mistake yet is still in post. 

jamesmilner

jamesmilner

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On 09/09/2024 at 11:18, dmayne7 said:

Huh? He's a director, so he absolutely will have budgetary control and have input into what can be spent overall and on an individual basis. That's absolutely standard practice in all businesses so would be amazed that it's not the case here. Unless you know the inner workings, since you're calling out people for not knowing his full remit, then making an assumption that goes against all standard practice and logic?

 

Of course he's not the one who has ultimate accountability for finances but given we're a football club, our main transactions are likely to be on the footballing side of things. We don't have a technical director that I'm aware of (more than happy to be corrected on that), so Rudkin's role would include oversight and final sign off of all incoming transfers, outgoing transfers, contract renewals and recruitment and termination of the footballing staff (though realise that manager appointment would be a shared process). Given the overwhelming majority of our problems stem from the mismanagement of the footballing side, and the financial mismanagement related to that, it's completely understandable to lay the blame squarely at his door. Of course, our abysmal commerciality is another big supplementary factor and nothing to do with Rudkin.

 

It needs more than just Rudkin gone for sure, but clearly removing Rudkin and getting somebody in who is competent and not Top's lapdog will absolutely have a massive positive change so not sure why you think it wouldn't?

He (Rudkin)has absolutely, not one bit of control ,of a budget or monies in any form whatsoever . 

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Foxy-Lady

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On 07/09/2024 at 20:56, sylofox said:

I've never seen anyone on here make a case for him. I don't think anyone thinks he's up to the job.

 

But people me included stick up for him because clowns on here blame him for everything wrong in the club. None of us know his full remit. But safe to say he's not the guy sorting out the budget. He's football not finances.

 

He's not upto it and yes get rid but, The clowns are those that blame him for everything and those that can't see that. Nothing will improve at our club by getting rid of Rudkin alone.

Like you, i dont think Rudkin is solely to blame for all the mistakes of the past few seasons.....but he is certainly a big part of it!

 

To say that NOTHING would improve at the club by getting rid of Rudkin is a very naive statement.  He is a big part of the problem at many levels so its pretty certain that SOME THINGS would improve if we got rid of him and had a better qualified DoF..

 

If getting rid of underperforming or inadequate individuals doesn't improve ANYTHING, why would firms ever get rid of people...?!?   

st albans fox

st albans fox

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2 hours ago, jamesmilner said:

He (Rudkin)has absolutely, not one bit of control ,of a budget or monies in any form wharsoever . 

Lateral thinking 

If he’s committed to getting a couple of players out to release funds and he doesn’t manage it then he’s very much in control of some of the budget 

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CosbehFox

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On 26/10/2024 at 12:30, st albans fox said:

Lateral thinking 

If he’s committed to getting a couple of players out to release funds and he doesn’t manage it then he’s very much in control of some of the budget 

Concise and to the point, bang on. He’s made some promises in his time of that nature 

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