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The Telegraph article directly contradicts that. "Traditionally, a technical director is responsible for the overall management and strategic direction of the football aspects of a club, overseeing recruitment, coach development, performance analysis, sport science and strategy. Telegraph Sport understands that while Rudkin remains a key figure in the club’s hierarchy, the plan is to appoint a new technical director to take control of recruitment and scouting."

He's not being promoted in reality. The John Percy article even uses the phrase "moving upstairs" which is lingo for being shifted to a more senior-sounding position to get them out the way. Also from the article: "While some fans will be sceptical over Rudkin’s continued involvement, his move ‘upstairs’ suggests that more responsibility will be given to new appointments."

Some miserable prats on here you've been wanting this for years and now he's done it you're still not happy. Best case he's been kicked upstairs and he's moved to some relatively meaningless position, if not he's still going to have a much smaller say in recruitment either way.

Get a grip

Well done Rudkin

You’re killing your credibility by accusing people of corrupt business practices when in reality you have no clue about whether or not that’s true. The clubs been poorly ran in recent years when it comes to player recruitment which is a major issue but all the “club is rotten to the core” hyperbole is where you lose me.

If I remember rightly I think even Ruud was saying (edit: or at least implying it, I don't remember and don't want to overstate it) last night that we were somewhat lucky. Sometimes it's hard to decouple scorelines from performances but I don't think it's controversial to say we could have easily drawn/lost that game on another night. And again none of that is to say that I'm not as happy as anyone else that in reality we won and that there were some okay/good individual performances (Mads etc). The main thing is we won his first game in charge and should hopefully be a big relief and give a bit of confidence/momentum.

Yeah I think we were lucky that A. the early goal was just onside and then B. they could have had 2+ in the first half and it would have been a very different game most likely. I don't think they'll be dragged in to a relegation battle personally. But what a perfect game to get some luck in, chuffed with it.

I’d take the point if there was photo or video in a random nightclub the day of a loss fair enough but this wasn’t that. I really don’t think him being daft with the other players at a sanctioned Christmas party means he’s unprofessional or not a leader. Whether he’s a good enough player is obv a different conversation completely.

Or if target number 1 is Potter they didn't want the noise around his first game being Chelsea.

Yeah today we had basically our championship 11 except for Kris and Buonanotte. We don’t have a great side. They might be good enough to stay up (this year especially) but we’re not gonna be mid table realistically with these players imo. I wasn’t thrilled with the Cooper appointment and I wouldn’t be shocked if he didn’t last the season. Having said that, if we survive I don’t really care whether it ends up being under him or not, as long as we get there and we’re tracking to do that at the min. I think a lot of fans have an unconscious bias because he’s boring and mainly because he used to manage Forest.

Can argue semantics but as it stands we’re 5 points clear of relegation, we’d have all taken that before the start of the season.

Careful don’t talk too much sense on here

Giving the manager an ounce of credit won’t get you banned from the forum.

The tweet is obviously a nod to Zaha's celebration when you couple it with the "Soon" emoji