Who picks the team

[Chelmofox]

Another manager. Largely same formation. Still picking Okoli even though he is the pits at passing. Daka dropped after scoring against Ipswich. Ayew picked even though the worst no 9 in history. Surely Rowett isn't picking this lot? So who is?

[Finnegan]

I'm waiting for the big reveal that in order to save King Power amidst their finance troubles in Thailand, Top bet everything he owns on Leicester getting relegated. 

 

[Mike Oxlong]

The squad is riddled with dross. I'm not sure it will make much difference as to who starts and who's on the bench

[nnfox]

The manager picks the team, but I'm convinced his hands are ties by clauses in contracts that guarantees minutes for certain players.

[Pita]

Rudkin is meddling in everything and he does not have a clue what he’s doing 

[Craig]

I have it on good authority that when we played QPR in the FA Cup last season, RVN was instructed that he could not play the side he wanted to play... 

[JonnyBoy]

2 minutes ago, Craig said:

I have it on good authority that when we played QPR in the FA Cup last season, RVN was instructed that he could not play the side he wanted to play... 

ooo spill the beans 

[J.Lisemore]

I think the manager picks the team but the squad is so s*** it doesn’t really matter who he picks. The striker scenario is comical for example, we haven’t got one. 

[funkyrobot]

42 minutes ago, Chelmofox said:

Another manager. Largely same formation. Still picking Okoli even though he is the pits at passing. Daka dropped after scoring against Ipswich. Ayew picked even though the worst no 9 in history. Surely Rowett isn't picking this lot? So who is?

Rowett is picking the team. He talks as much in his pre match interviews. Extolling the virtues of Ayew and of benching some of his better players to affect the game later.

[Phil Mitchell]

I’ve had my fair share of dodgy associations but keep my name away from these bunch of wasters. Phil

[Fear Of The Fox]

Taylor Swift. 

[Bezzanator89]

Jordan Ayew. I'm not sure even Rudders would pick this fraud right now, or maybe AI is throwing some twisted stats around to make him look marginally better than Daka.

 

Either way, Ayew keeps starting, we are doomed.

[Bourbon Fox]

18 minutes ago, Craig said:

I have it on good authority that when we played QPR in the FA Cup last season, RVN was instructed that he could not play the side he wanted to play... 

Go on?

[Dan]

I actually genuinely think there's something in that it isn't the manager at this point. There's something completely bizarre about it. How little ever changes - how certain players just don't seem droppable. How it's the same formation, every single game, no matter who the opposition.

 

It's likely mad conspiracy ramblings, but how is it even possible that this can play out?

[Craig]

25 minutes ago, Bourbon Fox said:

Go on?

Senior players only, no youngsters

[Corky]

13 hours ago, Dan said:

I actually genuinely think there's something in that it isn't the manager at this point. There's something completely bizarre about it. How little ever changes - how certain players just don't seem droppable. How it's the same formation, every single game, no matter who the opposition.

 

It's likely mad conspiracy ramblings, but how is it even possible that this can play out?

We are just a lazy club. Anyone trying to do anything different (Barry-Murphy appeared to try and was pushed back) is frowned upon. I would say it is because the senior players make demands but they appear to hate playing for us.

 

No idea. We have been winging it for years and the luck has firmly run out.

[winteriscoming]

There must be something in Ayew’s contract about him having to play so many mins. 
Ability wise there’s nothing he offers. 

[davieG]

[southfox66]

we have no strikers so limited what you can do there, have no decent defenders either so take your pick and midfield just pick names out of a hat, so the answer does it really matter still going to end up with the same result usually

[wattolcfc]

Got told by someone close to the club yesterday that Top calls Rudkin and gives him rough instructions in broken English and is told to do whatever Top says. This is not me defending Rudkin but it sounds to be as though Top is more in control than people think and Rudkin is a yes man, hence why Top is defending him as he just carry’s out instructions.

Probably wrong thread but wouldn’t surprise me if he also has some say in the selection.

Edited 15 March by wattolcfc
Wrong thread

[ClaphamFox]

14 hours ago, funkyrobot said:

Rowett is picking the team. He talks as much in his pre match interviews. Extolling the virtues of Ayew and of benching some of his better players to affect the game later.

Has he extolled the virtues of Ayew?

[Corky]

It is probably down to this mistaken belief that we have quality and experience throughout the squad (we have even seen erroneous claims on here that the squad is similar to 23/24) and that, at some point, it will work out.

[Chelmofox]

9 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

Has he extolled the virtues of Ayew?

I dont think ive even heard him say his name ever.

[funkyrobot]

2 minutes ago, ClaphamFox said:

Has he extolled the virtues of Ayew?

Yeh after the Bristol city match he explained why he picked him. Because of his (alleged) ability to hold the ball up, to win free kicks and allow the wingers to run off him.  The reality was he wasn’t great against Bristol but his performance was masked by how bad they were. Sure enough, against a side that actually competed with us in midfield and so there was more needed from the striker in terms of support for the midfield, holding the ball up and pressing the opponent, his shortcomings were obvious for us all to see. Both our strikers are terrible. Tbf to Ayew he was never a main number 9 at Palace and usually played on the side. For us, his lack of pace or even any work ethic recently makes him even more of a liability than Patson ‘touch of a trampoline’ Daka. 

[Guest]

Let's be realistic, it's probably going to be Rowett. I'm glad we're past the "it's not fair to criticise him, we don't know what he does!" stage of the Rudkin discourse but let's not take it all the way to "everything that goes wrong or that I disagree with must be solely down to Rudkin". I'm not sure why Rudkin would be particularly keen to have players like Ayew and Bob playing, nor why he would be making so little use of the recent signings he presumably signed off on. If he dictates the team, formation and style of play then surely he's also got to be in charge of subs and in-game adjustments, which begs the question of why we keep spending money on hiring and firing managers when they apparently don't actually have any responsibility for anything that happens on a match day. Was Rudkin in charge for Bristol City as well or was that Rowett because we won?

 

To be clear, that's not a defence of Rudkin either. As far as I can tell he's ****ed up pretty much everything he's in charge of but I think there's a real lack of compelling evidence or arguments to support laying the blame for team selections and tactics at his door as well.

Edited 15 March by Guest