doubledeckerderek

PL prize money is worth 1.7m a place. Would another manager who we could realistically attract get us 5 places higher than Cooper? I think they would. That’s gives us £8.5m to sack him and his coaches which should be enough, unless their contracts are all Rudkin-specials. Trouble is, those contracts probably are ☹️

Spot on. I cba to re-post it here but I said something similar in the “How do you feel about Cooper” thread

Yes; on that scenario the blame should fall on those above him running the club because but for them, he would have achieved his main objective. You’d like to think that in that situation Top would finally give Rudkin the boot, if only because he’d want to make him a scapegoat rather than taking any personal responsibility for continuing to pi55 his Dad’s legacy up the wall.

24 hours on from the news breaking, I’m over my initial underwhelmed feeling and I’m ready to get behind the manager and give him a fair chance to prove himself. SC will be the 30th permanent manager we’ve had since I’ve been supporting us. Other than the outliers who were either really good and transformed us when we most needed them (Bloomfield, Jock, Little, MON, NFP) or were really bad and seriously set us back (McLintoch, Taylor, Holloway) I’ve always thought managers get too much abuse when things go badly and too much credit when they go well. This will probably be no different. He’s got a good reputation as a man-manager, and team-builder, and his coaching and tactical skills were good enough for LFC and the FA (where he succeeded in both jobs) so comparisons with his stats at Forest are pretty meaningless. Different context, different time, different players. As for the concern that his appointment doesn’t fit with the Chairman’s view of how he wants us to play, we all think the Chairman is an idiot and out of his depth, so what’s wrong with that?

https://football-italia.net/italian-newspaper-blames-leicester-city-for-collapsed-sensi-transfer/ This is an interesting take on why the Sensi deal didn’t go through. If, in addition to the probable incompetence, there was any dragging of our heels because Rudkin and others weren’t convinced with Maresca’s choice, we must enjoy him while we can because he’ll be off to bigger and better (particularly better-well-run) things in the Summer.

I want our club back. Beats even 2002/03 as the most unnecessary relegation ever. We’re clogs to clogs in 2 generations rather than the usual 3. Rodgers is an absolute c***t but this is all on the people above him.

I’m ok with that. For some reason I think we’ll win. Just needed to avoid both Mancs

Thanks all. All sorted now. We’re on our way…..

Bought tickets online for me and my mate whose supporter number is linked to mine. An email from [email protected] attaching my ticket has come through (eventually) but neither of us have had an email attaching his ticket. We fly to Rome tomorrow. I've emailed the club and will begin the usual vain attempt to telephone the ticket office tomorrow, but we know how that ends. Anyone else having similar problems?

I’m done with Rogers. He may improve some players with coaching away from game time (though some are going backwards e.g Soyuncu) but so much is going wrong in the aspects of the role that are directly the manager’s responsibility (organisation, motivation, in game changes). He’s just a highly paid first team coach.

Really poor from Marriner. Turned his back on the action and was starting to whistle looking into the stands. The ref has got to be looking at where the ball is at all times

Can’t go into the detail of why I saw both sides of the schism but objectively speaking (difficult after 57 years of obsession about and rapid support of our club) “The Gang of Four” were a class act compared to the other side of that dispute, as proved by what followed.

Just ridiculous

Look on the bright side. The last time we ended their 63 game unbeaten home record, we gifted them the lead with an o.g

I thought BR sounded a bit unconvincing and vague when he said Wes would be back in training in the next few weeks and Benkovic this week. His answers could have been more directed towards Juve than the twats at Sky