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Karen Gibbo will talk to your manager because he's very important.

Whatever you say, Karen FC.

Steve Gibson "Can you tell me why everyone is calling us Karen FC?"

Daily Mail saying that Boro should take Saints place in the final if found guilty. Boro forum breathes a sigh of relief.

He looks like someone hit him with a bag of spanners. Or like an aspiring Harry Redknapp tribute act.

The tide of public opinion has properly turned after that Middlesbrough statement https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwy2dg2w168o#comments

I think you'd take it because the alternative leaves you liable for all the mess delaying the final is going to cause. If we're guilty and it looks like we are then we take our medicine and focus on next weekend.

Can't get any more official than that.

#BoroForumWatch https://fmttmboro.com/index.php?threads/breaking-news.81160/post-2194175 Hearing 6 pts deduction

It would need to contain more Boro fans for that to be true.

Look, people, I know we're all mad at the Boro fans right now but can you actually think of a worse punishment than being forced to live in Middlesbrough? Nothing we can think of for them compares with that irrespective of how the hearing turns out today.

Following both forums is an oddly surreal experience.

Sounds like we didn't offer that either.

That's it then. We're fucked.

Asking to be on the panel is crazy. Making a statement which reads as "decide the way we want or else" is brave to say the least.

Particularly if, as we've heard from a number of places, the analysts basically just go scout each other and it's business as usual.

The EFL is the only league with this rule. It's possible he simply didn't know the 72 hours rule.

About 4 days ago?

100% agree with this.

I think also to try and sue us. If they sue the EFL when they have clearly followed their own process they are doing themselves no favours. This has always been a shakedown of Saints.

I wouldn't celebrate just yet. All the panel has done is turned down a request that was never going to be accepted.

They are only not following the rules because we forced them to by not following the rules. This is our fault for forcing them to try and avoid following the rules.

I'd be very careful of telling the panel what the only thing it can decide is if I were Boro.