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Catching up slowly... But still 3 pages behind!

Because we thought it might have more impact as part of the appeal?

It's difficult to work out who are the most amateur here.... Us or the EFL.... What's the process for the EFL picking up sanctions for their incompetence too...?

There are 307 numbered rules in the highway code... Recite them all now without peeking...

Said in jest, but nicely highlights the idiotic 'solution' the EFL came up with to deal with 'Spygate 1.0'....

With no connection to the company that the original panel worked for?

Bollocks.... Just come out of a work meeting and now I'm a further 4 pages behind... FFS!

A few of my Liverpool supporting chums have now started piping up in PMs.... "What's it like to support a club that cheats?"... Hmm... Where to start my replies.... #tappingup

All sponsors pull out, the club ends up in administration, then liquidation, and a phoenix club starts up again in the 7th tier?

Plot twist: Will Salt ends up working for Middlesbrough once the dust on all this has settled...?

Yep, especially if Sport Republic have neglected the statutory compliance function within the club for several months, as some have insinuated...

Yep, agree... That info came out after I wrote my post... The page count on here is going up quicker than I can read...! (I'm still an hour behind in catch up mode)

Now we have much more information than we had this time yesterday, yes, I would say that's the current position 👍🏻

Yeah, fair cop.... On reflection, I retract my bonkers notion 🙂

Or the scousers setting off a chain of negative impact events when they tapped up our best player....

Yep, ditto

It is feasible, if not overly plausible, that Tonda was ignorant of the rules and those above him didn't know (or care) how he was gathering data, so had no reason to question him on it. As I say, as unlikely as that sounds, we can't rule it out 100%, can we...? #benefitofthedoubt

Nail. Head.

IF the appeal is successful (ain't gonna happen) then i genuinely think the club should consider forfeiting the game Vs Hull and let them go through. Yes, I know such a bonkers view will attract the usual pelters from the self-appointed forum thought police, but it would go a massive way to rescue what's left of our tattered reputation.... Anyway, ain't going to happen so all moot...

I disagree... SR aren't anywhere near as clever / canny as Gibson... We'd have conceded the situation with a whimper...

As part of the appeal, maybe we should insist that the EFL impose a two-way transfer embargo on us for a year...?

Are SR not responsible for leaving the club's 'Compliance Officer' post / team vacant for several months (as we've been led to believe is the case). One would have thought that was at least a contributing factor here...?

No. I'm under the impression that the lawyer(s) we've hired might not be the best available. Gibson 'went large' by hiring "one of the best" sports lawyers in the land, we (seemingly) didn't....

Hand the club back to Katharina... Bring back Cortese and Pochetino, and go again... (I must stop eating large quantities of cheese before going to bed... 😂)

Yep... Footballers aren't, in general, the brightest bunch, so it's plausible they took this intel at face value rather than being naturally inquisitive as to where this 'magic' new data came from. If my boss suddenly started giving me 'inside info' on our competitors, I'd certainly be curious as to how he obtained it...