Rudkin

[reynard]

5 hours ago, Dan LCFC said:

Yep. Carried by residue from an improbable ****up and an ambitious young manager.

 

An ambitious young manager eh - no wonder he had no interest in sticking around this place.

 

I increasingly agree that people like him and Whelan are only in post because they'll lift the lid on a lot of dirt if not. It's the most plausible situation really.

Whelan is in the post because she has a long connection with King Power. Until recently I'd say she's done a pretty decent job and was very well respected outside the club. She was the person who eventually secured 80 million out of United for  Harry.

Now I think her course here is run. New and fresh ideas in management are required. Whether that happens or not remains to be seen.

 

Rudkin is a different situation and should have gone long before. In fact I'd have sacked him after that ridiculous situation with Silva where we missed the transfer deadline by 14 seconds or whatever it was.

Trouble is just removing him doesn't remove the issues we now have of a poor squad and what might turn out to be an incompetent manager.

The loss of Vichai has turned out to be the club's greatest loss of all.

[Cropwellfox]

We’ve not had one decent 90 minute performance this season. Not one. Our wins - nope. Got very lucky against a woeful Southampton who should have beaten us, Bournemouth would have scored 3/4 if they took their chances, we were scared and lucky, West Ham should’ve had us buried by half time. Lucky draw at Ipswich, threw it away against Palace with insipid mentality, Spurs were full Spursy and we still couldn’t beat them and my god we were bad against Everton. Even against Brighton it was 15 minutes of ‘**** it’ football and only got a point because their substitute has a brain fart before the end 

This has been an utterly abject season. Not one single performance to be proud of and you just cannot see anything but 3 defeats in the next three games. We look beaten before we start. No wonder supporters are demoralised, fed up and booing what they are seeing.

In no other business would the day to day leader survive this utter catastrophe. Not one good performance in months. Yet he continues in post seemingly immovable. Culture where under performance and failure time and time and time again is waved away. Shame on the ownership, shame on Rudkin, shame on everyone in authority at the club. Destroying our club - not theirs, ours - from the inside. 

[Foxin_Mad]

Again the football operations are an embarrassing shambles, Rudkin must go. 

[Guest Bilo]

I don't think Rudkin goes without very significant pressure from the fans. I'm talking walkouts, boycotts, turning up at the training ground and pitch invasions. All the stuff that would draw negative publicity to the club and make Top's bottom lip tremble.

 

Unfortunately, we're such a passive fanbase it's unreal. We just go from game to game in blind hope that it might improve and, when it doesn't, hope it does next week. Just as happened in 22-23.

 

We seem to have a set of fans who think that we're building up to a 14-15 Great Escape all over again and we'll be fine, but there are absolutely zero signs of that. In 14-15, we frequently played well. The fight, heart, identity and effort could be seen a mile off. Fans of teams who played us couldn't fathom how we were bottom. Now that they can't fathom how we aren't.

 

A reality check is needed from top (literally) to bottom, owner to Margaret and Jeff sat in the West Stand. It isn't improving without radical action.

[Fazzer 7]

Top is weak. Too weak to chop Rudkin, who we all know is the main reason for the ongoing failure. He is clearly out of his depth. He's got it wrong too often, he's got to be ousted somehow. 

[Stadt]

Most directors of football would kill for his level of autonomy. Instead he has his shit, grubby mitts all over every footballing function of the club. So his poisonous incompetence is absolutely insidious through the playing staff, coaching staff, academy, recruitment and the academy. 

 

Top is a pathetic character for letting this suck up run the show and he gets away with it because he's negligent.

[WoodyFox]

Lineker slagging Rudkin off on his podcast, saying he fell in to the job and that Steve Walsh was annoyed he didn’t get DOF

[CL Fox]

1 hour ago, WoodyFox said:

Lineker slagging Rudkin off on his podcast, saying he fell in to the job and that Steve Walsh was annoyed he didn’t get DOF

Good. Feels like people are waking up to it now.

[Silva Fox]

1 hour ago, WoodyFox said:

Lineker slagging Rudkin off on his podcast, saying he fell in to the job and that Steve Walsh was annoyed he didn’t get DOF

I guess that's severed any remaining ties he has with the club hierarchy then!

[CL Fox]

3 minutes ago, Silva Fox said:

I guess that's severed any remaining ties he has with the club hierarchy then!

Probably strengthened them with some club employees.

[Wymsey]

2 minutes ago, BSLBPod said:

Probably strengthened them with some club employees.

Who are they?

[Stadt]

3 hours ago, WoodyFox said:

Lineker slagging Rudkin off on his podcast, saying he fell in to the job and that Steve Walsh was annoyed he didn’t get DOF

Do you have a link/timestamp?

[lfu]

Need a big fuch off "Rudkin Out" banner for the next home game

[Ric Flair]

9 minutes ago, Stadt said:

Do you have a link/timestamp?

About 17 mins in on the latest episode

[Joe90lcfc]

3 hours ago, WoodyFox said:

Lineker slagging Rudkin off on his podcast, saying he fell in to the job and that Steve Walsh was annoyed he didn’t get DOF

Most sensible thing that’s come out of Lineker’s mouth in over 10 years 

[Nolucklcfc]

Glad lineker is actually showing some genuine interest in off fields issues for once. 

[Free Falling Foxes]

2 minutes ago, Nolucklcfc said:

Glad lineker is actually showing some genuine interest in off fields issues for once. 

Yes, but.....

He mentions Rodgers is (was?) an elite coach! Well, Rodgers wasn't very professional the way he threw his toys out the pram and effectively drove us to relegation.

We are still seeing the ramifications and consequences of that part of his tenure. Yes, Top should have got rid much, much earlier but the very mention of BR makes me squirm, even though he delivered the FA Cup.

[Nolucklcfc]

18 minutes ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Yes, but.....

He mentions Rodgers is (was?) an elite coach! Well, Rodgers wasn't very professional the way he threw his toys out the pram and effectively drove us to relegation.

We are still seeing the ramifications and consequences of that part of his tenure. Yes, Top should have got rid much, much earlier but the very mention of BR makes me squirm, even though he delivered the FA Cup.

There’s no doubt Rogers handled that season terribly but the problems were much bigger than Rodgers imo, as we see now. 

[CosbehFox]

His point on Rodgers was bang on though. He said we needed a rebuild. Whether I’d trusted him with it is debatable but he was absolutely correct on the rebuild

[MattFox]

3 hours ago, Nolucklcfc said:

Glad lineker is actually showing some genuine interest in off fields issues for once. 

He’s spent years saying nothing to try and get in KP’s good books after he fell out with them when they first came in

 

(Over renaming his lounge in the west stand of all things)

 

Shows which way the winds blowing in terms of KP in football circles if he’s prepared to speak out now… and no longer feels the need to suck up

Edited 23 December 2024 by MattFox

[dillonpanthers87]

Could @Union FS do a simple Leicester blue tshirt with Rudkin out on the back and front? Or similar stuff. 

[Guest Lako42]

On 22/12/2024 at 23:18, Luke Brown said:

Potential chant to the tune of wolves chant today & spurs chant 

 

I don’t care about Rudkin

he don’t care about me

all I care about

Is Leicester city 

We can't even sing about wanting Rudkin out for more than 10 seconds nevermind a song with real English words 

[Guest Lako42]

10 hours ago, WoodyFox said:

Lineker slagging Rudkin off on his podcast, saying he fell in to the job and that Steve Walsh was annoyed he didn’t get DOF

Our fans are still more likely to invite him for Xmas dinner than mobilise against the useless ****. 

 

It's top lads, the child billionaire who needs ****ing off

 

[fox_favourite]

The club is a mess, and it was evident in the wolves game. Ruud doesn't have his own coaching staff, fans rightly frustrated, atmosphere in the stadium is toxic, some players playing who should have gone long ago and not given new contracts. (Vards excluded, obviously)

 

This is what happens when you rest on your laurels, remember the good old days, don't move forward. The board are stinking the place out, the structure of the club is wrong, the players are over paid so we can't move them on, the investment is wrong, the dealings in the sponsorship is wrong. Decision after decision is wrong. It's stale, it stinks and the culture isn't changing. Too much of the club is ran on loyalty and not performance and ability. 

 

Why oh why weren't significant changes made after relegation the first time?? That should have rang alarm bells. That team should NEVER have got relegated. So many poor choices and yet those same people are still in position and it's happening again! 

 

I'm so frustrated with this club and the negligence that has been shown. There's no hiding anymore, yet they continue. We need new direction and a higher level of competency at this club, otherwise we'll be a Blackburn, Hull, Coventry team is no time flat. Watching Forest in Europe while we are 13th in the championship with Ayew as our main striker 

 

We are relegated, I'm convinced after that horrendous performance on Sunday, and that is on the board

Edited 24 December 2024 by fox_favourite

[Dan]

23 hours ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

Something has to give and soon, yes Ruud made some mistakes yesterday no doubt, but look at the squad he is currently managing, we have players like Ward, Choudhury, Thomas, Coady, Vestergaard , Soumare, Iversen, McAteet, Kristiansen, that is 9 of a 25 man squad that have been deemed surplus to requirements at some stage by the club, most of which. were either bench warmers in the championship or were sent on loan in the hope of moving them on. We have then compounded it by signing utter guff like Ayew, BDCR, Skipp, and Eduoard 
 

The inability of a certain person to move on our squad payers is pathetic and continues to massively hamstrung our ability to be competitive and plays a heavy burden on PSR compliance. 

 

We then have a bloated academy full of players who barely go out on loan to aid their development or to help assess if they can make it, instead they hang around playing academy football until they are 21/22 and then drift away. We have players in their now who have not one chance of making it at the club. 
 

We are on our arse at right back at the moment, a few years ago Joe Wormleighton was being touted as one to watch, he is still here and yet he hasn’t made an appearance in anger for the 1sf team, surely we have to pushing the talented 18 years old out on loan and fast tracking their development and making them 1st team ready. I really struggle to see what our policy is as it seems all over the show and we just seem to be stockpiling academy players with no clear direction of how we develop or them or when to cut our losses and release. 
 

We really do need some fresh blood, new ideas and impetus at Football Director level as the club is currently stagnating under the current incumbent. 

This isn't all a result of some sort of redemption arc either - they're involved again because the team has declined and the standards are low.

 

This squad is rubbish and I want anyone involved in that being the case booted as far from the club as possible. Which is the main argument for why Cooper did have to go.

 

Rudkin still being in post is so laughable that you can only suspect it is some sort of dirt he does have on the owner.