Rudkin

[CosbehFox]

2 hours ago, SecretPro said:

Can't believe some prolific posters on here defended him for so long, constantly making excuses for him, making out like we're all mad 'if we think Rudkin had anything to do with this or that or made decisions on this or that'.

 

Its become absolutely abundantly clear that Everything, EVERYTHING, goes through Rudkin and those around him, including the club's owner, will protect him to the point where they actually sack Wheelan as an actual scapegoat.

 

This club is utter madness. A large part of our fanbase is deluded, brainwashed or both. I just can't get my head around how this utter, utter filth is still at this club. 

Halcyon times when we had multiple posts of ‘prove what his role is’ 

[mozartfox]

Do Turdkin and Starmer go to the same tailors to buy their Teflon suits???

[Claudio Fannieri]

In any other walk of life he would have been sacked or resigned following 2 relegations in 3 seasons, he is the longest serving DoF in English football being in his role for 11 years, the average is 20 months ……

 

Now look at we are today, we have just been hit with a 6 point deduction, we have hired and fired 3 managers in less than 18 months, dismantled one of, if not the best squad outside the supposed big 6 and yet after all this not only his he seemingly under no internal pressure for his role but he is in fact just about to be moved upstairs and given more power and influence. 
 

If he had a shred of credibility, gave a shit about the club and isn’t there for his own gain then he would have either resigned or at least swallow his pride and accept he needs to relinquish power and bring in a heavy hitter like Pearson, give him the keys to Seagrave and a blank canvas to rebuild the club. 
 

The very fact that this man chooses self preservation over the long term good of our club makes him the most dangerous individual I have ever known to have influence and power at Leicester City in the 45 or so years of supporting the club. 
 

I am pretty sure if he had an open and frank conversation with Top about stepping down from LCFC he would get a sizeable pay out / loyalty bonus and still continue to collect a decent wedge running King Power racing whilst allowing the club to move forward with the right people who can shape and take the club forward for the future. 
 

I think this deduction, will galvanise the fanbase to back Kingy and the team whilst also putting pressure on Rudkin to step down, his role and position at the club is untenable. 

[fox_favourite]

The pressure is growing on this fraud. He's the director of football, he is responsible for how we perform, it's his job to make sure we're getting results but alas we are in a championship relegation zone. Top must be utterly in love and blind to his incompetence. It's there for all to see. He's embarrassing his boss and his families legacy, I just can't see how Top can't see that. Manager after manager has issues with Rudkin, even ones that we wanted to employ wanted to bring their own in, Enzo did as well. That is telling. 

 

I think it comes down to one thing.  If Rudkin goes, Top has no clue, and Rudkin knows that. If I was Top I would have sacked him or moved him away from the footballing side and got someone who knows the ins and out on a temp basis whos job it is to build a competent team for this club. It's the way Wrexham did it. They both admitted at the time they didn't know how to run a football club, so found someone who does and knows the back room bit of football to build it up. It can be done. Top just needs to grow a pair sack this man off. HE is to blame along with Top. 

 

Get this fraud out! 

[Muzzy_no7]

1 hour ago, mozartfox said:

Do Turdkin and Starmer go to the same tailors to buy their Teflon suits???

Likely but they certainly went on the same course for How to stay in a job despite making mistake after mistake and being utterly out of your depth. 

[fox_favourite]

2 minutes ago, Muzzy_no7 said:

Likely but they certainly went on the same course for How to stay in a job despite making mistake after mistake and being utterly out of your depth. 

The university of Keith Vaz-ing

[Sol thewall Bamba]

6 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

Halcyon times when we had multiple posts of ‘prove what his role is’ 

Went on for months didn't it.

[CL Fox]

6 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

Halcyon times when we had multiple posts of ‘prove what his role is’ 

And 'you dont know that'.

 

Shame they dont post anymore.

[Gravel]

I fear that Top would have got rid by now if he was going to. Unfortunately our clueless chairman yet again has no plan b so carries on regardless.

 

Sad times.

 

 

[Finn Claw II]

Top has been in football for years, I don’t buy this he needs Rudkin talk.

 

He needs an able Director of Football (and an able CEO and senior team more broadly).

 

As a private owner, he’s going nowhere unless he wants to sell.  If he doesn’t want to do that then he needs to be ruthless and build a new leadership team.

[LCFCJohn]

25 minutes ago, Gravel said:

I fear that Top would have got rid by now if he was going to. Unfortunately our clueless chairman yet again has no plan b so carries on regardless.

 

Sad times.

 

 

I’m not saying he will get rid of him but to be fair, external pressure only just starting to mount. Apart from. A handful of respected journalists close to the club (Percy/Collomosse etc) not much has been said. Many of our own so called supporters deflect the pressure off Aiyawatt and Rudkin by actively defending them at any turn.

 

This points deduction is a big turning point in that the media are now talking more widely. That TalkSport segment for example. 
 

So I disagree he would have if he was going to. If he does give in and bin Rudkin, I think the pressure that would cause that is just starting.

[SK3Blue]

Not going anywhere sadly, the next managerial appointment will be another disaster, the owner will continue to back him due to his lack of interest in the club and lack of business acumen. 
 

Truly the most dangerous man our club has ever allowed to remain on the payroll.

 

[Arkie Bennett]

24 minutes ago, LCFCJohn said:

I’m not saying he will get rid of him but to be fair, external pressure only just starting to mount. Apart from. A handful of respected journalists close to the club (Percy/Collomosse etc) not much has been said. Many of our own so called supporters deflect the pressure off Aiyawatt and Rudkin by actively defending them at any turn.

 

This points deduction is a big turning point in that the media are now talking more widely. That TalkSport segment for example. 
 

So I disagree he would have if he was going to. If he does give in and bin Rudkin, I think the pressure that would cause that is just starting.

I agree. The local pressure is long lasting and vehement, but I think it's the personal embarrassment caused by the national and international reaction that will force Top to act. 

[1972 Fox]

8 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

Halcyon times when we had multiple posts of ‘prove what his role is’ 

 

1 hour ago, Sol thewall Bamba said:

Went on for months didn't it.

 

1 hour ago, CL Fox said:

And 'you dont know that'.

 

Shame they dont post anymore.

[Katy]

10 hours ago, HP1 said:

He's only 58. We could have him for another 10 years or more if Aiyawatt doesn't sell

We won’t have a club if he’s here for another 10 years. 

[sm1]

Top is a child and Rudkin is his security blanket. Sadly I dont think he's letting go of him. The only way Rudkin leaves, is if he walks.

[CornwallFox]

2 hours ago, CL Fox said:

And 'you dont know that'.

 

Shame they dont post anymore.

TBF I'll stick my hand up here. 

Rudkin is director of football and so is to blame for our football operations failing.

I have previously, and to some extend still do, say that people blame him for every aspect of our failure but actually he isn't director of finance or head of risk management and so I have doubts that he is the only person culpable, and we have little visibility over exactly who is responsible for what. 

That isn't to defend rudkin, simply to point out there's wider failings and we shouldn't let others off by only focusing on rudkin and top.

Edited 7 February by CornwallFox

[Iwebema]

58 minutes ago, 1972 Fox said:

 

 

Excellent haha.

 

I never really understood the defense of "we dont know what he does", I was thinking, thats not a good thing, hes director of football, with a long list of footballing failures and the defense is we dont even know what he does. Brilliant.

 

One thing I do know is the players by and large like him, or at least they used to because he just wants to be their mate, he acts more like an agent than a DOF, giving them bumper pay packets and lots of other luxuries. Arranging tickets and boxes to other big events for instance.

 

But those who truly care about the club and not just themselves hate him, just in short supply of those atm.

[roblcfc84]

Total coward, he can’t possibly believe he’s doing a good job. I’d be embarrassed to carry on at this point. 

[Paninistickers]

3 minutes ago, Iwebema said:

he acts more like an agent than a DOF

That's a great post @Iwebema and the line above is particularly astute. 

 

He's a youth coach by trade. He isn't qualified to lead an organisation in terms of culture and strategy and certainly not finance. 

 

The grotesquely overblown contracts he dishes out tho are the fault of Whelan. He should never have had the authority to send the wage bill spiralling to 116% of revenues. 

 

What can be laid at his door, for sure, is footballing performance and a lack of authority over managers. I'm one of those that still think a decent recruitment policy is there, somewhere.  But he seemed bullied by Rodgers into bringing in Rodgers' mate as recruitment boss. 'Managed upwards' by Enzo, who took over the transfer policy in the summer window and scaled long standing coaches like Sadler. And he showed no backbone with Cooper, whose demands for clapped out garbage from poor performing rival EPL clubs should've been overruled. 

 

He's weak. 

[BrilliantFox]

Just now, Paninistickers said:

That's a great post @Iwebema and the line above is particularly astute. 

 

He's a youth coach by trade. He isn't qualified to lead an organisation in terms of culture and strategy and certainly not finance. 

 

The grotesquely overblown contracts he dishes out tho are the fault of Whelan. He should never have had the authority to send the wage bill spiralling to 116% of revenues. 

 

What can be laid at his door, for sure, is footballing performance and a lack of authority over managers. I'm one of those that still think a decent recruitment policy is there, somewhere.  But he seemed bullied by Rodgers into bringing in Rodgers' mate as recruitment boss. 'Managed upwards' by Enzo, who took over the transfer policy in the summer window and scaled long standing coaches like Sadler. And he showed no backbone with Cooper, whose demands for clapped out garbage from poor performing rival EPL clubs should've been overruled. 

 

He's weak. 

Makes me sick to my stomach knowing there are people in leicester on a quarter of his wages who would do a better job than him.

[foxinsocks]

Poor top - who is going to tell him?

[dmayne7]

9 hours ago, Gamble92 said:

Name and shame them 

I'm absolutely happy to put my hands up and say that I have thrown out the 'we don't know what he does line'. But not because I don't believe he is at best, way out of his depth, and at worst, incompetent and a poisonous influence. I've said that because:

 

a) it highlights the sheer lack of accountability and transparency at this club that after a decade in post, we still actually don't know what he does.

 

b) the only way Rudkin leaves (maybe this will change now but doubt it), is if Top leaves as he's not sacking his BFF. All these failings and he's still here.

 

c) even if he goes, does anybody actually think Top is capable of getting somebody competent in, and somebody that will challenge him?

 

d) what we can say with certainty, is that Top/the board are absolutely to blame, even if not fully. If for no other reason, they have kept Rudkin in post, but they have ultimate control over recruitment, budgets, sponsorship etc.

 

So I've really challenged people to direct their ire at Top as he is the only person we 'know' he's cocked up, and we get real change when he's gone, not Rudkin  Interestingly, to the point of not knowing Rudkin's role Top did actually allude to what he was responsible for in one of the interviews last week, and it was a frankly mental remit. Talked about being with the players, doing logistics, commercial things; a remit that even the most competent person would struggle with.

 

Please don't take this as a defence of Rudkin, as I want him gone just as much as the next person and I find it implausible that he's not heavily responsible for these things, but it's become clear over time that the only change we get is when Top/KP clear off and I know with absolute certainty, he/they are to blame. There should still be pressure on Rudkin but I don't understand the people that blame Rudkin over Top. Doesn't make any sense.

[Claudio Fannieri]

33 minutes ago, CornwallFox said:

TBF I'll stick my hand up here. 

Rudkin is director of football and so is to blame for our football operations failing.

I have previously, and to some extend still do, say that people blame him for every aspect of our failure but actually he isn't director of finance or head of risk management and so I have doubts that he is the only person culpable, and we have little visibility over exactly who is responsible for what. 

That isn't to defend rudkin, simply to point out there's wider failings and we shouldn't let others off by only focusing on rudkin and top.

According to some extracts from the commission report the Finance Director identified and said players needed to be sold at certain times to remain compliant, in fact in the first relegation season it was identified we needed to sell in January and we in fact doubled down and signed Souttar, VK and Tete……. It would suggest that others probably including a certain Susan Whelan were raising flags and Top and Rudkin didnt heed those warnings and carried on regardless. 

[FoxyPalace.com]

Rudkin simply needs to go, this should be a priority for Top to restructure the club properly.