LegalEagle

Yes yes yes but we football fans are all the same just wearing different shirts. This could have been Preston and West Brom instead and the fans and what was said would have been no different. We’re all a bit weird.

I understand that argument more than just letting Boro through

Not going to go like that Sockeye. They’re going to reinstate us later today. The final will be brought forward to 7.30am on Saturday morning. Later this afternoon before the appeal result has been announced Peretz, Charles, THB, Azaz, Scienza and Ross will all have jumped ship and joined Coventry. And Tonda will have been sacked. Bazunu is back in goal, kids are brought in along with Romeu and Lallana and the crowning turd in the pipe is Russell Martin will be back in charge with Nathan Jones as his deputy. Then you can mourn.

Yep - we’re in a legal process. They don’t want to accidentally say something that might be misconstrued and used against us. That’s distinctly possible when you realise how incompetent the club is at a senior level.

I believe the EFL said at some point it was these guys. As I said above, I don’t believe the panel members from yesterday have been announced. I slightly assumed that the Chair would have been chairing the panel yesterday but he could be doing the appeal for all I know.

Here what you say but my counter to that would be that this was too important a decision not to follow due process. They’re trying to lay a precedent. Make sure everything is done to the letter.

https://www.sportresolutions.com/about/board-members

The EFL have screwed this up royally which might yet play into our hands in terms of relying at the appeal on a technicality. Once they had charged us, the EFL should have pulled the final on the 23rd for a date to be announced. We then have our 14 days to file our submissions and it goes from there. If after that we were still expelled and appeal routes were exhausted then our place in the play offs should have been taken by Wrexham. To just give Boro a bye is a joke. The World Cup hasn’t helped of course because some players needed to be released. No easy answers here.

That doesn’t seem to matter. They sold us 38,000 tickets

There is a chance. Pretty slim but we’re still breathing. I never saw that coming yesterday. I thought the chances of us being kicked out were slim then. Can’t help but think if it had just been Boro then we wouldn’t have been kicked out. We’ve been way too honest here and not played the Man City game book.

This is the panel and their board members https://www.sportresolutions.com/about/board-members

It wasn’t reported. The adjudicating panel were named and you can see on their website who sits on the panel. I have not seen anywhere who sat yesterday however and who is sitting as the appellate body today.

The chairman was a KC and some others on their panel are lawyers or ex- lawyers

I think we should sack Tonda and his team involved in this today. We can then try and use that as an argument at the appeal that we’re taking this seriously. A long shot but it shows some commitment by the club to stamping this out. Get rid of them by 2pm today.

It ends up in court. That’s where it ends. We win the appeal today and the EFL will go to court (along with Boro, Wrexham etc suing us separately). We lose the appeal today and we go to court.

Outstanding. Take a bow that man. Just pissed myself laughing. That will keep me going all day.

Bazunu, Bree, Wood, Capt Jack, Wellington, Bragg, Robinson, Fellows, Edozie, Matsuki, Archer. This lot plus some kids will form the basis of our team next season is my guess. That is of course not a starting 11 but we have a chance of hanging on to them. The rest will probably go to lower half PL teams

Do none of Tonda’s team have an interest in football? I assume that they do so being asked to spy like this, the first thing I would have done was just check what happened as a result of the Bielsa case. Everyone who knows anything about football knows of this. A simple Google search would have shown the new rules that the EFL brought in. Takes 5 minutes at most. We knew but didn’t care. Is that because everyone else is doing it? Of course they are.

Love to know what Tonda was going to say when he said last week that he would speak eventually (or words to the effect). We will have to wait for the autobiography I guess.

Safe to say that we probably won’t see Tonda again in this country. I’d go back home if I were him.

I assume that if we lose the appeal today then the club will be making an urgent application tomorrow for an injunction at the High Court to stop Saturday’s game. If we don’t get the injunction then we have to pay the EFL’s costs for that application. Around £50k to £100k. In the scheme of things it’s a no brainer.

I always liked old Saggy Chops …..

Not an employment tribunal but in a court I think that it’s a decent shout.

You will. Once the cheats have been removed and SR are out of our club.

And if Boro win on Saturday do Hull sue the EFL?