Ruud van Nistelrooy - New Manager - Official

[bovril]

Something quite poignant about going back and reading the first few pages of a thread dedicated to a player or manager who has rapidly fallen from grace. 

[Clever Fox]

1 hour ago, adejo92 said:

You mean the same Ruud that rewards bad performances with continued selection into the starting 11?

 

Worst manager in the clubs history. We're literally being mocked over social media and during our match commentary. 

 

If I gave enough of a sh1t about the club right now, I'd be embarrassed. 

 

 

The problem is he can only replace bad players with different bad players and that's not down to him.

 

I'm not suggesting he is the answer but he does deserve some sympathy for the mess he was handed.

[dnewty]

I wouldn’t be surprised if we are begging him to stay.

[suffolk fox]

He sticks rigidly to a 4 3 3 system he doesn't change a thing at all.  He, is a woeful coach.  Try something different even 5 at the back 4 in the middle and 1 up top.  Or even 5 at the back 3 in the middle 2 up top.  He is a poor coach and quite frankly out of his depth.  What was the point of bringing Thomas and Daka on in the 88th minute?  Anyone, explain?

[Soar Fox]

The only way he saves his managerial career is by walking away himself and then calling out how badly run the club is. The media has started to sit up & notice how we are being mismanaged, RvN could use that to his advantage & turn it on them by calling out issues within the club. 
 

If he’s just waiting for the sack then he’s doing his reputation no good at all. 2 full time jobs he’s walked out on one of them and the other has been a total shit show under him. 

Edited 28 February by Soar Fox

[Clever Fox]

1 hour ago, ClaphamFox said:

I have some sympathy with Ruud because he's been handed a terrible squad to work with. But his persistence with players who do not give a shit about our club and will not break sweat to try to help us avoid relegation is wearing incredibly thin. So what if you think Faes and Soumare are the best players we have in their positions? They don't care and aren't trying, so don't pick them! Watching a team of such poor quality is bad enough without being forced to watch disinterested arseholes do the bare minimum so they can avoid injury and get a move in the summer. Surely we must still have a few players at the club who actually want to play for us?!

I agree with you except for the last sentance. There are a few mercenaries in the squad that need to be got rid off.

 

He doesn't have anyone else he can pick from except maybe the development squad and it's problably not right to throw them into this mess at this stage of the season.

 

The only way he can deal with it is as I said above, Roast the players who are not doing enough and hope you get a reaction from them.

[Chelmofox]

4 minutes ago, Soar Fox said:

The only way he saves his managerial career is by walking away himself and then calling out how badly run the club is. The media has started to sit up & notice how we are being mismanaged, RvN could use that to his advantage & turn it on them by calling out issues within the club. 
 

If he’s just waiting for the sack then he’s doing his reputation no good at all. 2 full time jobs he’s walked out on one of them and the other has been a total shit show under him. 

I remember seeing in an earlier interview that when he was younger he didnt know if he wanted to get into management. He may now have realised this isnt for him. If thats the case, you wait to get sacked, get your money, and become a pundit. 

[HankMarvin]

Last 12 games he has failed to get the team to score a goal in 9 of them 

Edited 28 February by HankMarvin

[pmcla26]

39 minutes ago, suffolk fox said:

He sticks rigidly to a 4 3 3 system he doesn't change a thing at all.  He, is a woeful coach.  Try something different even 5 at the back 4 in the middle and 1 up top.  Or even 5 at the back 3 in the middle 2 up top.  He is a poor coach and quite frankly out of his depth.  What was the point of bringing Thomas and Daka on in the 88th minute?  Anyone, explain?

Daka should’ve come on at about 60 minutes when it was obvious El Khannouss was having no impact on the game. Bypass the 10 and go two up top. 

[ACF]

15 hours ago, Chown said:

Do you still disagree with me 😂

Glad to see I’m living in your head

 

Yes I do disagree - we had the worst defence and Mads was playing out of his skin. Funnily enough when he’s not playing at absolute world class level we’re constantly on the back foot and too scared to go forward as we know we’ll concede. 
 

You can ask in two days, two weeks, two relegations, answers going to be the same pal.

[Les-TA-Jon]

P14 W2 D1 L11

F9 A34 GD-25

Blanks 9, Clean Sheets 0
 

Pretty rancid stuff

EDIT: Add full context

Edited 28 February by Les-TA-Jon

[jim5000]

Continuing to select Soumare as a starter should be a firing offence in its own right!

[jim5000]

1 minute ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

P14 W2 D1 L11

F9 A34 GD-25

Blanks 9, Clean Sheets 0
 

Pretty rancid stuff

Two months into a three year contract 

 

He’s walking away with millions whatever happens.

 

Nice work if you can get it

[Blue ROI]

21 minutes ago, Les-TA-Jon said:

P14 W2 D1 L11

F9 A34 GD-25

Blanks 9, Clean Sheets 0
 

Pretty rancid stuff

EDIT: Add full context

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

[Ethan RL]

1 hour ago, MonarchFox said:

I was sat in the gods last night in the West Ham end.  Gave a different perspective of the pitch.

 

You could see one team had clear objectives of how they wanted to play and basically we didn't.

 

West Ham clearly happy to leave Wan bissaka and the other guy out wide, so always had an out ball.  Our fullbacks and wide men couldn't deal with it.  Our tactic was to stay narrow and our press was shit.

 

RVN thinks we did better 2nd half, West Ham just took the foot off the gas.

 

No matter what you think about the players, he is a shit coach 

Spot on mate. Was stood in second tier too and it just exposed how tactically poor we are.

Edited 28 February by Ethan RL

[john ridley]

1 hour ago, suffolk fox said:

He sticks rigidly to a 4 3 3 system he doesn't change a thing at all.  He, is a woeful coach.  Try something different even 5 at the back 4 in the middle and 1 up top.  Or even 5 at the back 3 in the middle 2 up top.  He is a poor coach and quite frankly out of his depth.  What was the point of bringing Thomas and Daka on in the 88th minute?  Anyone, explain?

Think this is why he needs an experienced  team around him ,people  who have seen it and done it ,he's  not got that and that's why he'll always struggle. They should have got a manager with his team to come in ,as it's turned out too late now

[Phild]

3 hours ago, HankMarvin said:

Makes sense with the gulf to those teams is about 15-20 points 

I'm not sure what part of that strategy you think 'makes sense'

[nettle]

I'm actually a bit disappointed in myself in believing he would be a step up from Cooper. I'll hold my hands up and admit I was totally wrong I thought he would be decent but how wrong was I the guy is absolutely clueless, crap tactics, crap team selections and the players certainly don't look like they want to play for him.

Also I don't think you can come back from that amount of losses he's had and turn it around in my opinion he's done here  and just needs sacking.

[HankMarvin]

19 minutes ago, Phild said:

I'm not sure what part of that strategy you think 'makes sense'

I was being sarcastic, why be cautious against teams that are more points in front of you that you have achieved all season. It’s irrelevant 

 

From his post match interview he suggested that for the last run of games (all defeats against so called lesser teams, some of whom were in and around our league position) the team was set up to not lose and more defensive and now he wants us to take the initiative and really take it to the opponents in the upcoming games against the teams that are at the top end of the league.

[HarryDee8]

Is he still here?

[Joe90lcfc]

I just cannot believe the amount of people that thought he was the answer, or was it just the sacking of cooper and people fell into that trap!! He did nothing to warrant a job here in the first place and it’s disgusting how he is still in the role after breaking all kinds of unwanted records FRAUD 

[HankMarvin]

Has the worst ppg record in Prem history 

 

edit it’s actually Martin at Southampton 

 

article from last year 

Vincent Kompany (0.63) and Rob Edwards (0.68) are both only spared by the 50-game cut-off point here. Their records are the second and third-worst respectively of all Premier League managers with at least 25 matches. Daniel Farke’s is the worst (0.53) so it might be a good job Leeds did not go up.

Edited 28 February by HankMarvin

[Mickyblueeyes]

Cannot believe he is still here. 

[JimJams]

He's still here cos it's over.  Appointing anyone else is just throwing them under the bus.  Maybe, hopefully Man Utd lose their shit and ask if they can have RvN for a bit and we mutually agree to terminate.   Arnie style.

[Dahnsouff]

Agree, little point in a change and wasting more money, as this squad has no scope to demonstrate a sufficient level of siege mentality required to save us at this late in the season.