Ruud van Nistelrooy - New Manager - Official

[winteriscoming]

Someone tell me what he’s shown tactically that he’ll do ok next season. 
Absolutely baffling if he’s in charge next season. 
He’s completely clueless. 

[Guy]

21 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

Someone tell me what he’s shown tactically that he’ll do ok next season. 
Absolutely baffling if he’s in charge next season. 
He’s completely clueless. 

If it's not announced after the Bournemout game that Ruud's departing then it's definitely beginning to look as if he's here for next season now...

[Lesta2014]

32 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

Someone tell me what he’s shown tactically that he’ll do ok next season. 
Absolutely baffling if he’s in charge next season. 
He’s completely clueless. 

Not exactly tactically anything he did but beat qpr easily in the cup haha

[Trav Le Bleu]

Weirdly, if you took Man Utd under RVN's results and swapped them with ours in the same period, it would be them going down, not us.

 

Has RVN deliberately been managing us badly as he knew it was the only way to save his beloved former club?

[Filbert Fireworks]

40 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Weirdly, if you took Man Utd under RVN's results and swapped them with ours in the same period, it would be them going down, not us.

 

Has RVN deliberately been managing us badly as he knew it was the only way to save his beloved former club?

Relegation Van Noidea the ultimate manure sleeper cell. 

[Foxin_Mad]

1 hour ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Weirdly, if you took Man Utd under RVN's results and swapped them with ours in the same period, it would be them going down, not us.

 

Has RVN deliberately been managing us badly as he knew it was the only way to save his beloved former club?

I really just think its that Wout Faes can not defend, it’s basically that simple 2 times relegated with that clown

[Foxin_Mad]

1 hour ago, winteriscoming said:

Someone tell me what he’s shown tactically that he’ll do ok next season. 
Absolutely baffling if he’s in charge next season. 
He’s completely clueless. 

Question is who would want to manage this club under these incompetent imbeciles who would a better job? 

[Pliskin]

The problem with keeping Ruud on would be the current culture around the club, it’s rotten. He’s had a horrific stint here, and it would just seem more sensible to part ways and have a fresh start. The right manager will lift the place, and we say this with Enzo…. We’re still an attractive proposition, regardless of how we feel and think about our club at the moment, because there will be good managers out there who would see this as a career defining move and an opportunity to get us back on track, again, like Enzo proved. 
 

I think the correct decision would be to part ways with Ruud, purely because I think his experience here is so bad, I can’t see him recovering it. 

[An Away Move]

Better the devil you know. Give him pre-season and the first 10 games in The Championship. He’ll know what we’re about warts and all behind the scenes and a better idea of who to get rid of, who to keep and what he needs. Chopping and changing managers is the real killer. Ipswich are a very well run club with a fantastic manager and we’re basically neck and neck with them. The damage to our club was done under Rodgers. The Prem collectively got stronger at the same time as our unforgivable first relegation. As a fanbase we need to be less toxic and realise where we are and stop carping on about where we ‘should’ be from a sporting perspective. This does not mean letting Rudkin off the hook. 

 

 

[SafewayFox]

38 minutes ago, An Away Move said:

Better the devil you know. Give him pre-season and the first 10 games in The Championship. He’ll know what we’re about warts and all behind the scenes and a better idea of who to get rid of, who to keep and what he needs. Chopping and changing managers is the real killer. Ipswich are a very well run club with a fantastic manager and we’re basically neck and neck with them. The damage to our club was done under Rodgers. The Prem collectively got stronger at the same time as our unforgivable first relegation. As a fanbase we need to be less toxic and realise where we are and stop carping on about where we ‘should’ be from a sporting perspective. This does not mean letting Rudkin off the hook. 

 

 

That’s up there with “careful what you wish for” when fans wanted Brendan to go.

 

The devil that we know about Ruud is that he has broken multiple records at all levels of football.

 

Losing 9 consecutive games at home without scoring is a sackable offence alone.

 

 

[Claudio Fannieri]

Given Top has been over this week, and I know it will largely be to focus on Vards, I wonder if they may also make a decision and announcement as to Ruud’s future, perhaps given the Vardy announcement once our relegation was confirmed the club didn’t want anything else to over shadow that. Vardy is gone after Sunday, so maybe just maybe on Monday with one game left to play we see/hear some news on the way forward next season.  

[Foxmeister]

8 hours ago, Guy said:

If it's not announced after the Bournemout game that Ruud's departing then it's definitely beginning to look as if he's here for next season now...

We thought that with Holloway

[brookfox]

Blows my mind that anyone would want him here next year. The Championship is a long hard battle and this guys teams roll over to have their tummy tickled at the first sign of adversity. Unless he spends the summer doing the Bill & Teds time travel trick to learn how to be a good manager, he’s got to go.

[Gazza M]

51 minutes ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

Given Top has been over this week, and I know it will largely be to focus on Vards, I wonder if they may also make a decision and announcement as to Ruud’s future, perhaps given the Vardy announcement once our relegation was confirmed the club didn’t want anything else to over shadow that. Vardy is gone after Sunday, so maybe just maybe on Monday with one game left to play we see/hear some news on the way forward next season.  

Here's hoping. 

[joachim1965]

2 hours ago, An Away Move said:

Better the devil you know. Give him pre-season and the first 10 games in The Championship. He’ll know what we’re about warts and all behind the scenes and a better idea of who to get rid of, who to keep and what he needs. Chopping and changing managers is the real killer. Ipswich are a very well run club with a fantastic manager and we’re basically neck and neck with them. The damage to our club was done under Rodgers. The Prem collectively got stronger at the same time as our unforgivable first relegation. As a fanbase we need to be less toxic and realise where we are and stop carping on about where we ‘should’ be from a sporting perspective. This does not mean letting Rudkin off the hook. 

 

 

We were in league one once.

[AyewJoking]

2 hours ago, An Away Move said:

Better the devil you know. Give him pre-season and the first 10 games in The Championship. He’ll know what we’re about warts and all behind the scenes and a better idea of who to get rid of, who to keep and what he needs. Chopping and changing managers is the real killer. Ipswich are a very well run club with a fantastic manager and we’re basically neck and neck with them. The damage to our club was done under Rodgers. The Prem collectively got stronger at the same time as our unforgivable first relegation. As a fanbase we need to be less toxic and realise where we are and stop carping on about where we ‘should’ be from a sporting perspective. This does not mean letting Rudkin off the hook. 

 

 

I think most of us realise we are a joke.

 

 

[King Claudio]

2 hours ago, An Away Move said:

Better the devil you know. Give him pre-season and the first 10 games in The Championship. He’ll know what we’re about warts and all behind the scenes and a better idea of who to get rid of, who to keep and what he needs. Chopping and changing managers is the real killer. Ipswich are a very well run club with a fantastic manager and we’re basically neck and neck with them. The damage to our club was done under Rodgers. The Prem collectively got stronger at the same time as our unforgivable first relegation. As a fanbase we need to be less toxic and realise where we are and stop carping on about where we ‘should’ be from a sporting perspective. This does not mean letting Rudkin off the hook. 

 

 

My big problem with this is Ruud would then be bringing in the players. This was the exact same problem when Cooper brought in his guys like BDCR and Ayew that we are now stuck with. 

 

Ruud should be a better manager in the championship, and we have been better over recent weeks, however Rudkin/ Top needs to wholeheartedly believe he is the man, otherwise we need to make the change now 

[Crinklyfox]

In view of the way he's been treated by his employers I would expect him to leave as soon as he can - which will be as soon as his reputation gets some repair and an opportunity presents itself.  So there's virtually no advantage to keeping him bar the financial repercussions of paying him off.

[Tuna]

Blatantly obvious they are stringing him along until the season is over, when he will be sacked.

[JimmyC74]

4 hours ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

Given Top has been over this week, and I know it will largely be to focus on Vards, I wonder if they may also make a decision and announcement as to Ruud’s future, perhaps given the Vardy announcement once our relegation was confirmed the club didn’t want anything else to over shadow that. Vardy is gone after Sunday, so maybe just maybe on Monday with one game left to play we see/hear some news on the way forward next season.  

You always hope that regardless of the silence coming from KP Towers , Top (&co) have been working in the background to prepare for next season. Time and again this has proven to not be the case.

 

Hopefully the penny has finally dropped and we can move forward / implement changes once the season ends - but suspect we are in for much of the same.

[whoareyaaa]

I think he has shown he has the authority about him which we have missed for a while(bar Enzo), some of his decisions have been pretty good.. he isn't scared to make changes maybe with King and Murphy all working together don't forget they have only been here 2 months hardly time to implement much we would be ok next season.

 

Clear out players that are not motivated and see what kind of team we can build.

 

In reality the board will likely give him next season and see how it goes.

 

 

Edited 17 May 2025 by whoareyaaa

[Bob Weasel Fox]

4 hours ago, Claudio Fannieri said:

Given Top has been over this week, and I know it will largely be to focus on Vards, I wonder if they may also make a decision and announcement as to Ruud’s future, perhaps given the Vardy announcement once our relegation was confirmed the club didn’t want anything else to over shadow that. Vardy is gone after Sunday, so maybe just maybe on Monday with one game left to play we see/hear some news on the way forward next season.  

Fingers crossed 🤞 

[Foxin_Mad]

I just hope they decide something soon whatever it is. The absolute worse case scenario is they wait until 30th June due to PSR then employ pound shop Brendan or Dyche

[Foxin_Mad]

6 hours ago, Pliskin said:

The problem with keeping Ruud on would be the current culture around the club, it’s rotten. He’s had a horrific stint here, and it would just seem more sensible to part ways and have a fresh start. The right manager will lift the place, and we say this with Enzo…. We’re still an attractive proposition, regardless of how we feel and think about our club at the moment, because there will be good managers out there who would see this as a career defining move and an opportunity to get us back on track, again, like Enzo proved. 
 

I think the correct decision would be to part ways with Ruud, purely because I think his experience here is so bad, I can’t see him recovering it. 

There’s 2 arguments about the culture though. If it’s rooted in the club with the likes of Winks and Vestaguard taking the piss. Then realistically it’s going to take more than 9 months to identify and root out the bad eggs. A new man comes in, especially if it’s late June due to PSR and we are then expecting them to assess and build a squad, I can tell you now that ain’t gonna happen, it’s back to square one he will try a few different things, decide who shit etc.

The likely options we are going for Martin, or some other tippy tappy moron or the the random swipe of Dyche. The issues remain the club doesn’t have identity, culture is driven from a higher level. The side assembled by Martin was easily beaten by us on several occasions. Then some are advocating a bloke from Bristol city who got royally spanked 6-0 in the playoffs! Not one goal in a game as important as that is pathetic! The managers we are linked with don’t inspire me and I don’t have faith the club can think outside the box. Finally the squad that came down last time was massively better, we have the huge task of finding a striker who can shoot and also competing again well run ambitious clubs like Wrexham and Birmingham. I think there’s a reasonable chance we stay down for a while and gradually slide towards League 1 like Stoke. 

Edited 17 May 2025 by Foxin_Mad

[FoxinNotts]

1 hour ago, Foxin_Mad said:

I just hope they decide something soon whatever it is. The absolute worse case scenario is they wait until 30th June due to PSR then employ pound shop Brendan or Dyche

It will be worse case scenario