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Yengi is a big #9 who holds the ball up well and can hold off multiple defenders at once, with good feet. Krpic is a bit ****. Seems like there’s a logical solution lol

100%. Been to a bunch of these, all the way from Man U v All Stars or whatever the hell it was at the opening of Stadium Australia, Leeds, Arsenal etc. Only went to Arsenal because a mate got freebies. They're ****. Every one of them. They mean nothing, the crowd are a bunch of golf-clappers, it's dull.

Reasonable points about waiting meaning that next year could be lost too. So then the best solution would have been to punt JT now, not the end of the season. Get a new CEO in, let them evaluate the place. Rushed solutions are rarely the answer. A good CEO will happily lose a season if it means proper change. What they don't want is to be handtied for two years. A bad CEO will happily take being tied Rudan, because there's a built-in excuse.

Regardless of whether you think Rudan is the man for the job (though I can't tell what he has shown that would convince anyone that he is, except an apparent tough guy image that might move some shirkers on, but that also led to him leaving past workplaces under clouds), this is just another example of the leaders of our club showing they have no plan. Appoint an experienced assistant to help Robinson Sack Robinson not longer after Appoint a coach no-one wants or likes with dodgy reputation on an interim basis Sack CEO Give interim coach full control for two years, despite nothing changing on the pitch and the only difference being the CEO is gone None of this makes any sense. If they had a clear plan they wouldn't have hired Van Egmond. If they had a clear plan and a proper ability to evaluate coaching talent they wouldn't have hired Rudan on an interim basis and then made him perm just a few weeks later. If they had any sensible understanding of what it takes to bring in a good CEO, they wouldn't have hired a coach right now. If they had a clear plan they wouldn't be hoping for a Tony Popovic 2.0 to understand the west and what this club is built on. They've got no clue. It's embarassing.

Either way is bad. If JT, why would they let him? If Lederer or the Board, why would a CEO want to come to work for a bunch of people who could have let him pick his own guy but chose to do it themselves? They’ll have to have a very, very good reason, otherwise good candidates will not be interested.

Seems more like a guy on his way out giving his mate a contract. Why would you take a role as the CEO here? You have an organisation that could have waited and let you pick your own man. Instead they nadcuff you to him for two years. Crazy

Yeah the emotion of goals has basically been taken away. Not sure how you measure the cost of that in terms of attendance etc., but I think it's more than people realise. One of the things that sets football apart from other sports is the sheet joy when goals are scored, and another is the fan involvement, singing dancing etc. VAR direcctly removes the first, and has a massive impact on the second.

Sometimes I think the administrators of sport love the controversy. Like "all publicity is good publicity" type of thing. I think the football fans have shown they disagree. That was a great game, with some great goals. And yet here we are.

LOL as normal I said the same thing but in way more words than my fellow WSW brethren

Sigh. I've been banging on about this for years, I don't blame the refs, regardless of how terrible the decisions were tonight. Imagine having to walk to the sideline and watch the replay on a tiny little screen - sometimes in pouring rain!! - while the coaches, backroom staff, players and fans yell at you, and having the pressure of checking your own decision! The idea that a ref should check what he THINKS he saw is silly, he's already starting the check with a bias (and people's memories and observations have been shown to be very poor evidence in court, for example). JUST GET THE PEOPLE IN THE VAR ROOM TO OVERTURN ANY CLEAR AND OBVIOUS ERRORS!! Surely we've seen enough of this to know that the idea, however noble, of the ref checking his own work on a little tv is not working. Let the people who have access to 50 inch HDTV do the checking. **** me.

Ad hominem

LOL I made a comment further up that no-one in the football community has supported him. I nearly added a throwaway "until Slater writes a column saying he should be judged on results until the end of the season". Did he even touch on bad reputation but say he should be judged on results, or was it all just about Wanderers and that he should give him full backing?

You - and others - seem to think that this is a court of law. We're commenting on the selection of a football coach, not laying down closing arguments to a jury. The guy has been involved in numerous highly damning scenarios. As stated above, he'd have to be the unluckiest man in the world to have been involved in them all through no fault of his own. How many more do we need before a club accused of a toxic culture should avoid the bloke? Isn't leaving 3 places of employment with a bad reputation enough? Not to mention that no-one in the football community has ever defended him over the Mel stuff. Simon Hill just tweeted to WSW fans "what do you think?" (about the appointment) and when the inevitable negative replies came in, all he said was "guys, just reminding you that libel/defamation is applicable to twitter". He never said "these are rumours I think you should stop", or anything remotely close to that. Just "watch yourself". That is the line that all football people have taken since, you never see people saying "that never happened". I think it's pretty much accepted that it did happen. There's a reason why Rudan was on the golf course and just took a deal for half a season. No-one else was offering him a job. One of the responsibilities of our CEO is to understand the football community. That allows him to make good decisions for the club. He's missed the mark by further than a Kwame Yeboah shot on goal.

We have an assistant they just brought in who is already in the building.

Yep. Either they are arseholes who don't care. Or they have no pulse of the football community and the sentiments of the fans. The sad part is that it could just as easily be either one these things. Or both.