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Mark Judan: Family Time

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20 Jun 00:01

Seems to be well practiced in his deceptions!

Valley FC til I die?

20 Jun 01:20

I am very unhappy with the way his time with us ended, but I'm a bit uncomfortable condemning him on the back of this stuff.  But it's pretty nasty stuff, and if even remotely close to true I'm glad he's out of the club

Normo's coming home

20 Jun 01:27

It's fair to say he's not very tech savvy - Seems to think people won't be able to pin SOcial media accounts on him.

How's my driving? - Whine here

20 Jun 01:35


Ramming liberal dribble down your throat since 2009
This forum needs less angst and more Kate Bush threads



20 Jun 01:36

No wonder the YF never made a banner for him


Ramming liberal dribble down your throat since 2009
This forum needs less angst and more Kate Bush threads



20 Jun 01:38

This thread delivers. A+++ would read again.

20 Jun 01:38

Durante is the "biggest one to leave"?

20 Jun 01:39

Hard News wrote:

It's fair to say he's not very tech savvy - Seems to think people won't be able to pin SOcial media accounts on him.

Is that really from Rudan? Then it would be fair to say, he is not ready for the job.

20 Jun 01:40

This was quite the read, what a rollercoaster. 

20 Jun 01:40

Hard News wrote:

t's fair to say he's not very tech savvy - Seems to think people won't be able to pin SOcial media accounts on him.

So you're saying it's Rudan who posted all that?

20 Jun 01:47

This is some well spicy content

Annual finals disappointment enthusiast.

20 Jun 01:54

Ryan wrote:

Durante is the "biggest one to leave"?

Krishna.

20 Jun 01:55

This is fun!

www.kiwifromthecouch.blogspot.com

20 Jun 01:58

number8 wrote:

Is that really from Rudan? Then it would be fair to say, he is not ready for the job.

There is a very high percentage chance that it is him based on some research, the wording, other tweets.

How's my driving? - Whine here

20 Jun 02:02

jeepers.....

Queenslander 3x a year.

20 Jun 02:03

Well. After Scotland's meltdown this morning I thought I'd be pissed off all day but this thread has cheered me up no end. Thanks troops :-)

Apparently I'm apathetic, but I couldn't care less.

"Being a Partick Thistle fan sets you apart. It means youre a free thinker. It also means your team has no money." Tim Luckhurst, The Independent, 4th December 2003

20 Jun 02:04

el grapadura wrote:

Ryan wrote:

Durante is the "biggest one to leave"?

Krishna.

How old are those comments? Krishna was known to be gone for a few weeks now.
20 Jun 02:07

Bullion wrote:

el grapadura wrote:

Ryan wrote:

Durante is the "biggest one to leave"?

Krishna.

How old are those comments? Krishna was known to be gone for a few weeks now.

Also, did he throw his mate, Talay, under the bus?
20 Jun 02:11

Bullion wrote:

el grapadura wrote:

Ryan wrote:

Durante is the "biggest one to leave"?

Krishna.

How old are those comments? Krishna was known to be gone for a few weeks now.

They and others are from before Krishna leaving was announced.

I'm an optimistic pessimist. 
I'm positive things will go wrong.
20 Jun 02:13

Bullion wrote:

el grapadura wrote:

Ryan wrote:

Durante is the "biggest one to leave"?

Krishna.

How old are those comments? Krishna was known to be gone for a few weeks now.

Around the time of the Awards night, it's mentioned in one of those messages.

20 Jun 02:15

But then who's Baiter referring to below?

Baiter wrote:


6, You think you like angst now wait until you catch the next departure.


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This forum needs less angst and more Kate Bush threads



20 Jun 02:16

el grapadura wrote:

Ryan wrote:

Durante is the "biggest one to leave"?

Krishna.

... whereas in his farewell Insta, Roy had nothing but positivity about the club. I mean you wouldn't expect him to walk out cursing a blue streak about Dome/Morrison, but Rudan's attempt to poison everything by saying that people are leaving because the club sucks just doesn't hold water.


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This forum needs less angst and more Kate Bush threads



20 Jun 02:19

Doloras wrote:

el grapadura wrote:

Ryan wrote:

Durante is the "biggest one to leave"?

Krishna.

... whereas in his farewell Insta, Roy had nothing but positivity about the club. I mean you wouldn't expect him to walk out cursing a blue streak about Dome/Morrison, but Rudan's attempt to poison everything by saying that people are leaving because the club sucks just doesn't hold water.

Yeah, wonder if Talay asked Rudan what he thought of the club?
20 Jun 02:19

Doloras wrote:

el grapadura wrote:

Ryan wrote:

Durante is the "biggest one to leave"?

Krishna.

... whereas in his farewell Insta, Roy had nothing but positivity about the club. I mean you wouldn't expect him to walk out cursing a blue streak about Dome/Morrison, but Rudan's attempt to poison everything by saying that people are leaving because the club sucks just doesn't hold water.

Well we haven't re-signed any off contract players so far!

Normo's coming home

20 Jun 02:36

Jeff Vader wrote:

Baiter wrote:

In an effort to help <waves>

It appears that:

1, Rudan got summoned home by his wife because (due to past history) he can't keep his pants on.

2, He engineered the messages about his departure with the crap about ambition. The Phoenix squad was once again financially comparable to all but the league's top 3 teams. The Phoenix still has the best youth set-up of any team. The club may run on a smaller backroom staff but to claim a lack of ambition just doesn't add up.

3, Western United staff had long stated their new manager was involved in recruitment before he was announced. He clearly behaved unethically when the Phoenix had done all they could to build him what he needed.

4, Even if the club suspected this was going on with no actual proof they would have had legal implications for terminating a contract with no facts to back it up and at the same time can you imagine if they sacked him when we were top 4 and challenging on a rumour - no matter how strong?

5, The club worked fast to sign a replacement. They also negotiated hard with all the players that have left but at the same time were realistic about what they could justify paying them.

6, You think you like angst now wait until you catch the next departure.

7, Rudan has been using social media - fake accounts and misrepresentation - to try and defend his actions. Good luck to Western United if some journalist actually goes all in on him.

8, After pulling an (estimated and conservatively so) 3 million dollars out of this club in salary we're meant to feel sorry for Dura because the testimonial whose grandiose plans were driven by people outside the club didn't make him another million? Fudge off.

This is either a major hatchet job ( if so, shame on you) or if true, Rudan is an absolute cod.

Oddly enough, for all the bollocks that it spouted on this forum, this strikes me as being accurate when you read some of the other commentary from the mods.

I am so innocent apparently.  I haven't picked up a single hint of it from reading any posts here. Thanks Baiter for spelling it out for the terminally naive.

20 Jun 02:44 · edited 20 Jun 02:45 · History

aitkenmike wrote:

Jeff Vader wrote:

Baiter wrote:

In an effort to help <waves>

It appears that:

1, Rudan got summoned home by his wife because (due to past history) he can't keep his pants on.

2, He engineered the messages about his departure with the crap about ambition. The Phoenix squad was once again financially comparable to all but the league's top 3 teams. The Phoenix still has the best youth set-up of any team. The club may run on a smaller backroom staff but to claim a lack of ambition just doesn't add up.

3, Western United staff had long stated their new manager was involved in recruitment before he was announced. He clearly behaved unethically when the Phoenix had done all they could to build him what he needed.

4, Even if the club suspected this was going on with no actual proof they would have had legal implications for terminating a contract with no facts to back it up and at the same time can you imagine if they sacked him when we were top 4 and challenging on a rumour - no matter how strong?

5, The club worked fast to sign a replacement. They also negotiated hard with all the players that have left but at the same time were realistic about what they could justify paying them.

6, You think you like angst now wait until you catch the next departure.

7, Rudan has been using social media - fake accounts and misrepresentation - to try and defend his actions. Good luck to Western United if some journalist actually goes all in on him.

8, After pulling an (estimated and conservatively so) 3 million dollars out of this club in salary we're meant to feel sorry for Dura because the testimonial whose grandiose plans were driven by people outside the club didn't make him another million? Fudge off.

This is either a major hatchet job ( if so, shame on you) or if true, Rudan is an absolute cod.

Oddly enough, for all the bollocks that it spouted on this forum, this strikes me as being accurate when you read some of the other commentary from the mods.

I am so innocent apparently.  I haven't picked up a single hint of it from reading any posts here. Thanks Baiter for spelling it out for the terminally naive.

There was a couple of cryptic comments from him about three weeks ago that got me thinking.

Not sure why it took so long for someone to let rip?

20 Jun 02:58

I found the article in question just by using Google (people on forums have C+V the text. Makes for interesting read that's for sure.
I'm still off the Judan bandwagon but if the social media and stalking links were to prove true I'd definitely change my opinion.


VUW AFC - Victoria University Football for life

20 Jun 03:10

For people like me, can someone post a link to this twitter stuff?

Grumpy old bastard alert

20 Jun 03:15

I found the article in question just by using Google (people on forums have C+V the text. Makes for interesting read that's for sure.
I'm still off the Judan bandwagon but if the social media and stalking links were to prove true I'd definitely change my opinion.

The stalking links are true and can be found fairly easily, but you will need to draw a short bow.  This has been confirmed by Australian Football Media otr

Angrier but more cuddly than a Honey Badger

20 Jun 03:18

If that were true wouldn't the cops have been involved?


VUW AFC - Victoria University Football for life

20 Jun 03:25

Didn't someone post soemthing vague on here around the time of the FFA Cup game? Was it Valeo? 

20 Jun 03:32

If that were true wouldn't the cops have been involved?

Mel decided not to press charges, just wanted to move on from it.

20 Jun 03:51

Wow that's full on. Was he linked to the break in at her mother's as well?


VUW AFC - Victoria University Football for life

20 Jun 03:55 · edited 20 Jun 04:00 · History

2ndBest wrote:

Didn't someone post soemthing vague on here around the time of the FFA Cup game? Was it Valeo? 

Just an aside, 10-15 mins before the game I took a shortcut around the back of the club-rooms and saw Rudan there, by himself (in the dark), looking at his phone. He was there until the game started. He comes across as a bit of a strange unit.

Not much in that.

I was going to make a joke about the stalking of <insert fox sports host name here> but I don't want this site to be sued

This might be what you are thinking of.

20 Jun 04:05

I think it is.

20 Jun 05:00

haven't been on here in quite some time but got tipped off to this and just thought I'd pop in to say holy sharkballs

We easily have the best off field drama in the league

People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people.

20 Jun 05:05

The Ozzy Long Pins 

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20 Jun 05:18 · edited 20 Jun 05:22 · History

So the nix employed someone with a history of creepy behaviour, at a time when they had U18s in matchday teams? Hello safeguarding/duty  of care failure.

20 Jun 05:21 · edited 20 Jun 05:22 · History

InsideSport Forum 2 years ago.

The new man in McLaughlin’s life is retired British soccer player Ashley Westwood, 40, who had a career playing for third-tier English football division clubs including Crewe Alexandra and Bradford City until 2012.

He moved on to coaching duties in India and it was while working in that ­capacity in late 2015 that Westwood met McLaughlin, who was working briefly as a soccer commentator at Star TV and living at the same Mumbai hotel as Westwood and his then pregnant wife Huma.Westwood, who has been unemployed since March when his contract as head coach of Malaysian Super League team Penang was cancelled by mutual consent, has five children by three women.

Retired Sydney FC player Mark Rudan clashed heatedly with Ashley Westwood.

According to friends of the Westwoods, wife Huma, a juvenile probations officer in Northampton, recently filed for divorce.Westwood yesterday denied his relationship with McLaughlin began while his wife was pregnant. “I have been separated from my second wife since early 2016 and we are going through divorce proceedings,” he said.
“I started seeing Mel last year after the breakdown of my marriage. We’re very happy.”Sources say police believe some of the “dozens” of telephone threats made to a Seven mobile in McLaughlin’s possession may have been intended for Westwood.Rattled by a break-in at her apartment earlier this year, McLaughlin has since moved out of her home. She did not wish to comment when contacted yesterday.

Frankie’s pizza outlet on Hunter St was the scene of the altercation. Picture: Bill HearneRudan allegedly shouted crude abuse during the incident.

News of the stalking investigation comes days after an unrelated incident in which the TV host was publicly insulted at a Sydney bar as tempers flared during A-League grand final celebrations last ­Sunday.Westwood and local soccer commentator and retired Sydney FC player Mark Rudan clashed heatedly outside Frankie’s Pizza Bar on Hunter St in the early hours after the match.Fox Sports commentator Rudan was allegedly assaulted by an unnamed 18-year-old as he and a group arrived at the bar at the same time McLaughlin and her boyfriend were leaving.Witnesses have said the two men started exchanging angry ­insults — Rudan allegedly shouting crude abuse at McLaughlin — before bouncers stepped in and police arrived, ­although officers did not take statements.The argument between Westwood and Rudan had begun earlier in the evening at The Clock Hotel in Surry Hills where 41-year-old Rudan had been drinking with Fox Sports colleagues.While McLaughlin, a Fox Sports presenter from 2007 to 2013, remained downstairs, Westwood went upstairs and had an argument with Rudan, angrily demanding he “take a walk outside” with him, which Rudan declined to do.Rudan, who is married to childhood sweetheart Sylvia, with whom he has children, refused to comment about the alterca

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