Miltonaggro

We get to play the final, but with Bazunu in goal and Damien Downs up front, the rest if the side tied together as a three legged race. Just what we didn't need!

It will have been noticed and noted, but they aren't party to proceedings and if this is a competent Panel they would need to shut out the noise as much as possible, as difficult as that may be. All this nonsense about bullying etc. is silly, as they can only relate to the complaint and the two regs breached in this instance. Put simply, we don't even know the position being taken up by Saints in response to these two charges, and that is where the actions / sanctions will flow from. If for instance, SFC have proved that there is no direct / or a tenuous link to Salt as an ex-intern, or that he was acting independently per se (best case scenario of course), then potentially Middlesbrough could be in the soup with both the EFL and the law.

On past form the idiots at Middlesbrough certainly won't, regardless of professional advice.

Indeed, they will take the full time allocation and when the announcement does come it will likely be 'out of hours'. There will be an awareness of the potential reactions of both clubs and respective sets of supporters.

I didn’t know that Columbo was on the Panel. Just our luck!

All of this will be retained fixed fee rather than hourly, they are acting as arbitrators. Prestige on the day job.

The article is atrocious. As the old saying about Fleet Street hacks goes ‘If its and buts were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands’.

Bree will be all over Halloumi in the final.

Let it go, I am expecting 3 infraction points and a suspended posts deduction x

Nice extended video, suggestive of a release of relief from the SFC management to me

Still much the same as last week. I don't know how this regulatory group works, so best guess is they will take all of the time allocated before announcing any outcome and penalty. No news pushes the nuclear option further down the road perhaps, as amongst other things they won't want to cancel Saturday at effectively three days notice. Right now, none of us (including Middlesbrough) know Saints position on the accusations as these meetings are in camera, so it might also be that time is needed to regroup to become quorate or follow up on certain matters.

Samaritans in Middlesbrough?

Think that might be assumed by Hull and petulant Boro, but we have some character in this side now. Reckon the likes of Peretz, Manning, Bree, Harwood-Bellis, Downes, Jander, Stewart and Larin will be fired right up for this, and they are much better than anything Hull has got.

Yes, Can you tell the court what happened next, Mr Salt ‘Well, I was on the app, and a person called ‘saucy Steve’, who I discovered later was Mr Gibson, asked me to meet him behind the bush, and bring a camera’…

Wonder who we could send to spy on the manufacturer. Someone with time on their hands.

Their constant bullshit reminded me of this skit by the late great RW - Gibbo Gaddafi 'you cross this line, you die!'

For Saturday, lads. Would be lovely to hear 35k Saints fans singing this: No one likes us, no one likes us, No one likes us, we don't care! We're Southampton, super Southampton, No one likes us, we don't care!

Or perhaps go the way of a similar Doomsday Cult, the Peoples' Temple, and collectively drink the Gibbo Aid.

Alas, EFL for Karen FC in this instance stands for Endless Frustration Looming.

If they didn’t they absolutely must next time we play Karen FC.

I did advise you to go with the diminished responsibility defence.

Spurs claimed it when we went down under Saggy, and established when we were in lower leagues. North London yobboes.

This particular intervention might force the panel to reintroduce the death penalty.