The key message for me is that Rudan had enough after 3/4 of one season, and that his reasons are unrelated to WelNix. These can be genuinely his family matters (which would make me impatient but not angry) or they can be his opportunistic careerist reasons (which would make me both angry and also impatient to see the back of him).
However, ultimately he is exploiting a legitimate 8 weeks notice clause in his contract, a clause which, if you are signing someone that you need for a 2 year contract, is a dynamite under your seat. This is the best lesson I am sure Welnix will have learned now. Do we need a clause for someone like Kurz? No, even if he might be less successful for us than Rudan, simply because Kurz has already proven himself as a coach at HAL level, and also because he knows what it is like to be away for a long time from your home country. All of that is however a speculation at this stage.
If Rudan was going to have a year off, he would have given notice at the end of the season, as he would be able to ask for an early release during the off season. By giving us a notice now, he simply indicates he has things to do as soon as our season is over, and therefore I am cynical about his official reasons to go. I am also in hindsight cynical about his past comments about his commitment to the city and the club. He reminds me of Mr Toad from The Wind in The Willows, whose commitment to anything lasted only until a new shiny thing came along, and whose commitment was in the end only to himself and his self-image.
If he gave us the notice at the end of our finals run then we might have still seen a good performance over the last two games, against Adelaide and especially the Roar. As it was, the performance from Krishna and Williams in those two games tells me all I needed to know about Mark Rudan's contribution to the Nix season.