Bobsmith

I'm not a fan of what Ross has done, but we had a contract extension clause and chose not to exercise it until after we knew we were in the championship. Pretty shoddy behaviour from the club and he's repaid it in kind.

Parsons, the entire legal team working this case, the entire media/PR team working this case, all need to be sacked immediately for negligence. I would keep Tonda as I think he's proven to be an exceptional manager. Like the Bielsa situation, having a top manager would make us much more likely to get promoted this season, and with our top players leaving, it will give him space to rebuild relationships with the rest of the squad.

We won’t get a better manager for next season so I say keep

Not at all. We needed to wrap this up with legal obfuscation for months and months until we were already in the prem. The amateurs admitted to it and expected a softer penalty. Sack the lot of them

I think we should be keeping Tonda as he's demonstrated his ability at this level. Most of the disgruntled players will be gone so we can try again next season.

No surprise that we basically asked for this sentence by admitting guilt and complying thoughout. Parsons and the entire legal team have to go. Likely advising him to admit the crime and go for a lesser sentence is one for the worst defences ever

The match going ahead highlights the EFL corruption. If they want to kick us out, fine, but to maintain their payday they reinstate Boro

I think we need to go scorched earth here. Being nice boys has got us nowhere and the board need to show some backbone and competence to earn back any goodwill

Then why were they so moronic as to allow this to happen. They should have fought this legally to prevent the case being heard until after the final. Again our leadership and legal team must be so naive. How are we so incompetent.

Let’s hope we do as all I’ve seen from this board so far is us rolling over

100% so many wet fannies saying this was deserved. It absolutely wasn’t. The corrupt EFL have been disproportionately influenced by Gibson and his media stooges, and our legal team were no where near the standard required.

I want to see some balls and competence from a club that has demonstrated a complete lack of it over the last month. Put out a message that inspires confidence, hire a top lawyer and go after the EFL, show that we don’t roll over and except unreasonable punishments and tie them up in litigation

The days when we had a competent and ruthless chairman. Personally think our priority should be getting the final delayed so we can litigate this properly

This club are fucked if we don’t win the appeal or we don’t get bought by the Saudis. The club need to throw the kitchen sink at that and the courts otherwise they are done

Its clear the commission wasn’t independent and has been used by middlesborough to overcome their inability to win on merit

We need to go scorched earth with the EFL over this. We’re like the nice kid that never complains and is constantly taken advantage of and middlesborough are the local bully boys. If Dragan doesn’t do something then they can all leave and take the legal and media departments with them

100% we need to go to war with the EFL over this and make them regret punishing little old saints to appease their mates up north. Reeks of corruption

Then he needs to pull his finger out and do something as this has been an absolute shit show so far

I don’t care about the crime, I care about the incompetence of the leadership, the PR/media team and the legal team. If we’ve been punished this harshly on weak evidence and no sporting advantage it shows how rubbish our defence was

They better take it all the way as we’ve allowed people to walk all over us. If Dragan doesn’t sort this out, he and his bunch of muppets can go

This club are just full of incompetent morons from top to bottom. The legal and PR teams in particular. They should all be sacked if they don’t win the appeal

This club is seemingly incompetent from top to bottom. But the EFL is corrupt as anything, reinstating a team that lost is using a legal loophole to bypass footballing merit. The only fair outcome if we were removed was for hull be to automatically promoted. I may give up on watching football after this

This guy just seems like a massive troll. If it wasn't for the 3k posts I'd assume he was a middlesborough fan

The picture of our intern doesn't prove sporting advantage at all. It proves that someone who may have been employed at the club was there

I agree they could do it based on intent, but that puts them on much weaker footing if we appeal due to the disproportionate punishement and they need this wrapped up quickly as much as we do.