Willo of Whiteley

Nothing significant has happened on this story in days. Nothing different to before has been discussed on this thread in days. Pages and pages gone by… And now all these photos, memes, Lego sets are absolute gold 🤣🤣🤣

They’re desperate. And with every new post, comment or tweet about it they look more delusional

Out of sympathy 😂

Over the last week or so I’ve tried to have rational convos on Twitter with Middlesbrough fans and I’ve even borderline been playing dumb. I didn’t think they were this thick!!

They’re a special breed

Just send this in response to every salty Middlesbrough fan tweet

Middlesbrough know it’s over. They're like a clingy partner trying to convince themselves the relationship is still as strong as ever when the other is trying to break up.

I’ll give my mate Will a call who’s up there, although he’s been a bit quiet recently

I don’t think Boro are training. There were rumours they were having an end of season de-brief on Tuesday, that was always the plan apparently.

Cheeky £5m bid for Hayden Hackney.

Steve Gibson dips into his bowl of ideas and goes “what’s next, what’s next? I need something give the press” in anger. 🤣 I’m sure they’ll be one or two more drip fed headlines before tomorrow morning.

Ah, spoken by someone who would know the true meaning of smashing.

The Sun has changed its tune 🤣

They are desperate. They know it’s not going to happen so it’s almost a “let’s unnerve them before the final”. They are a pathetic club. I keep saying for all our alleged stuff it isn’t a great look, but Middlesbrough will come out no better. The club who leaked to the media. The club who riled their fan base up. The club that spread misinformation. The club that lost fairly and still couldn’t take it. The club that still tried to influence an independent panel. The club now trying to undermine and ruin another clubs big day.

Even if it’s over Middlesbrough and the national press will be doing everything to unsettle Saints ahead of Saturday.

Wrapped up by 16:00 tomorrow, but not before Middlesbrough have put a couple new drip fed stories into the press tomorrow morning.

I make it bollocks

This will rumble on for a while. Steve Gibson will still want money out of Southampton for no real reason. Even if you get a points deduction and the case is closed he’ll be going on about this for a while.

If it was a legal hearing and had been leaked it would’ve been inadmissible. Boro have played to the press and largely thrown their toys out the pram.

When, not if

I don’t actually think Middlesbrough have much in the way of evidence aside from a minor breach. Overall I think they will come out of this with a worse reputation than Southampton.

I’d be in tears if I managed a team from second to fifth and picked up only two wins in the last eleven. That is the reason they aren’t going up this season. Not because of Saints.

Have I missed anything since 9am this morning. Seemingly not I’m guessing, apart from Middlesbrough drip feeding another non-story to the Telegraph. Anything else?

I think this’ll all be wrapped up by later afternoon on Monday.

Jake Taylor (bitter ex-employee who was let go from Southampton) entices analyst intern Will Salt to the north east. ”Yeah it’ll be fine mate, we’ll have a drink later”. Not entirely implausible.