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Agree with that. Navy shorts, and we're on to a winner.

Will keep an eye on results. I lived in France for a period and enjoyed a fair bit of French football, I'm surprised to see the likes of Amiens & Bastia dropping down in to National. I was just reading about the switch to professionalism at that level, it seems the financial rules laid down by the football association are pretty tight. Wage to revenue being only 60% from 2027 and then 40% in 2029? Surely that will result in teams operating on a semi professional level rather than fully pro.

Exactly this. He'll be banned for the season, no doubt the EFL will find some more points to take off us too.

That deal is mental. Can see why so many clubs didn't bother coming back to the table...

Not fussed about Ballard. Really can't see him making the step up to Championship standard yet, personally if he has another good season then maybe he's worth a look at but even then I can't see a top 10 side buying him. I watched him a few times in those loan spells before the Orient move and he was gash.

Wouldn't want to emulate the blue few who managed to lose to...ahem...Aldershot a few days ago.

Castore has the marketing & distribution rights for Umbro though, which allows them to manage the designs etc and judging by the amount of complaints they receive for poor service. I don't think that's a good thing..

Doesn't really matter with SCR, the owners can only put in a certain amount over X amount of years. What benefits the most to clubs is additional revenue, so St Mary's being used for concerts and events helps along with the Dell bar and Level 1.

I still think they'll be in the market for Charles, like you said, they are slowly moving towards a midtable side and even a player like Charles will offer some worth to achieve that.

I can see it being us vs Middlesbrough first game as 'spygate' is still reasonably fresh in the minds. Skates will be the usual early autumn and then towards the spring....Cardiff away Boxing Day.

Nailed it, but it's been going on for years and even we've been guilty of it. If a club promises to pay off the parent's mortgage and some, certainly they are going to push for the lad to end up in West London rather than the south coast..

Back to Scotland I assume. He’ll be able to carve out a few more seasons in the top flight there.

Wright had a solid year with Stanley and one could argue he could make the step up. I'd say Moody needs a season or two out on loan to be suitably assessed.

For me it sounds like something has been agreed in the background for Ramsdale already, probably announced a day or two after the window opens. Long makes sense, has experience at this level and it happy to serve as a back up. The question for me is whether Moody gets promoted into the ranks or heads out on loan.

They should, but if you look at Leeds when they first dropped down. Every club is going to want to do a number on them, and a half empty London Stadium isn't going to help...

Welcome back. Getting the banners out readying for the announcement of Martin?

The 'Boro Gazette have, with the usual 'unbelievable' next to it. Then again, aren't they sponsored by Unibet? I thought Middlesbrough were whiter than white, surely the noble gods on Teesside would of taken into account the various fines and charges that company have had over the years...

Time to quote a bit of Rick & Morty - "Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what makes you cheer!" They are a fan base that seem to relish in 'winning' off the pitch in the court rooms than on it, celebrating that they almost put Derby into liquidation with the ill timed compensation claim . They don't mind the constant failure of poor managerial appointments because Gibbo is the cult master who can string the morons along. What will be the excuses next season when they fail to gain promotion? No doubt it'll be someone else's fault.

Because they know full well they got away with one....that Ipswich postponement was incredibly suspect given half the team were injured.

Saintsweb drawing up the hit list…

He was gash in his loan spell at Ipswich though, but then that could be down to the system he had to play in.

Seems to have injured his shoulder a few times though.... reckon he'll have another year at Wednesday to see whether he can stay fit.

Got to deploy the Gazza tactic, take two bags 'once they find the first one they'll think its over..'

It's not necessarily the lack of guilt or remorse but the level of evidence (or rather the validity) the EFL had especially as its deemed none of it was written. Oral evidence can be open to misunderstanding, or it's consistency can be questioned, which I'd hope the club are looking at right now. It just shows are quickly the EFL rushed it all through to save the Playoff final, in turn they may have left the door open for us to pick holes at what they brought to the table.

Very interesting - bombshell statement here. As the losing party, Southampton are entitled to know precisely what was the evidence that led to these damning findings. Yet the section on evidence says merely that the EFL relied on evidence from four witnesses, one of whom gave oral evidence, while Southampton relied on evidence from “several witnesses”, four of whom gave oral evidence. There is no mention of the written evidence, which must have been copious, and there is no attempt to explain how that evidence led to the findings mentioned above. On reading the judgment, Southampton could not know what evidence provided the proof for these findings. It could have a guess, but it is entitled to know, especially when so much was at stake, precisely what oral and written evidence was relied on to reach these conclusions.